AaronEvery time I see Trump in the news, my politics take another step to the left.
Arx@hosford42 I find myself more on the left just by standing still and watching the world lurch to the right.
Andreas K@arx
Yeah, I definitely remember that I a center-right teenager. Politically speaking.
And today, slightly over a quarter century later, I'm suddenly a radical leftist, while being a professional making 6 figures and being part of the owning (in a small way) class?
Ah right, I believe in things like human rights (what a communist concept that the Brits and Americans formalized after WW2) and consider potentially a fellow professional from a different continent as interesting or
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more so than some local idiot. Hint because I believe that the life of the idiot is as worthy of protection as mine does not mean that I have to spend time with him or listen to him. Reading about obscure mathematics or algorithms is way more entertaining than some idiot recounting how he's better than others because he was born in the right place or with the right citizenship. Discussing it with fellow nerds even more fun.
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And if someone thinks that I care about my fellow nerd's skin colour, plumbing or intimacy preferences.
Ah, but obviously the idiot that has problem to understand an exponential function, but speaks with the same suspect is superior. Right, pseudo science for racism/fascism the foundation for their idea of a super race.
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