i know i never be able to fully shake off the indoctrination and i suspect that this is true for almost everyone else.

Learning of this here combined w Irani tunneling and both to avoid the us empire’s bombing gives me hunger games district 13 vibes. Lol

i tried it and didn’t find it any more useful than browsing lemmy with firefox and i keep asking why others use it in case i’m missing something, but no one ever responds to my question.

can you share these tags with other people?

how do you tag people?

You were the one of the people I thought of when I read the post title.

That and @[email protected] and @[email protected]

I doubt that there’s any analogy that will inform you sufficiently, so I feel it’s important to share something else w you that I’ve learned in my own journey in understanding leftism.

Christians have centuries worth of retrospection that makes them more patient w individuals who reject their ideology; liberals do not. Liberals well blame you for the failures of thier ideology and will accuse you of behavior that they feel diminishes it; a lot like Christians of the past would persecute and punish atheists (or humanists, or diets, or believers of different faiths, etc.). You should expect vitriol to come from every avenue for being willing to question your reality as well as take intentional efforts to ensure that it doesn’t embitter you to the world.

Intentional is the key word here, you can’t leave it to chance like you’ve likely done in the past as I have because the vitriol will come from surprising sources and take surprising forms.

Wasn’t long ago I found that “liberal” and “leftist” as used by right wing people in the US was co-opted into a whole different meaning than their actual definitions

i’m also new to understand what leftism is and one thing about liberalism that has become crystal clear to me so far is that its sole material purpose in the modern day is a co-option vehicle for the epstein class in a similar way that religion – especially christianity – has been repeatedly co-opted in the past to foster bigotry and violence; especially holy wars like the crusades and justifying the global african slave trade.

and a lot like how christians refuse to accept that their faith has done significantly more evil than good; liberals will refuse to believe that their principals only serve capitalism and will fight just as hard as any christian to draw a distinction between their faith and the horrors that their faith has inflicted upon the world as if they were not one-in-the-same thing.

Clam expert here

how many times have you had to explain when people expressed surprise that clam experts exist? lol

i wish i could take credit, but my spell checker now has ai grammer checker and it makes really excellent recommendations sometimes like it did here.

the democrats will keep this blockade going.

the itemized bill for my lunches at my last hospital stay were absurd; who pays $35 for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?!

this seems like a bad thing to me given anthropic’s track record and manifesto.

did you make this?

for me, it came down to my liberal indoctrination that made it impossible to understand why there was so much violence and hatred being perpetrated upon the world and done by seemingly perpetually rotating casts of bad actors fueled by authoritarianism and hatred and all of it could only lead to climate change and wealth disparity.

since then, i’ve learned that the source of that evil is always the same dozen or so bad actors and their goal is always dominance for profit and the world became a lot easier to understand. it helped me realize that a just world not only possible, but has already been enacted in places that my liberal indoctrination had told me were dystopian, authoritarian hellholes.

the problem is that today’s western systems – particularly the american one – claim to embody them while systematically doing the opposite and each individual liberal who enables it.

take consent of the governed and political equality for example. there’s overwhelming public support for healthcare, housing, and education as rights, yet those things are commodified for the rich to varying degrees and electoral systems are captured by an epstein oligarchy that keeps driving us into wars, so “consent” becomes choosing between pre-approved options.

also take equality before the law. the us prison industrial complex – aka mass incarceration, for-profit prisons, racial disparities – proves that the law applies very differently depending on your wealth and skin color; no one will doubt this, yet liberal societies accept it nonetheless as a “necessary evil”. there’s also examples outside the united states: france presents itself as a liberal society governed by the rule of law, yet its colonial system uses that very law to enforce low living standards on africans while denying them french citizenship – laying bare the contradiction between its universalist ideals and its unjust, unequal reality.

and that’s all before we consider the fact that international, western-backed genocides and ethnic cleansing continue despite widespread public opposition. That’s not consent of the governed; that’s ignoring it.

decades of propaganda from the epstein oligarchy and a culture that once rooted itself in those liberal policies have normalized these contradictions. So the issue isn’t with liberty or equality as personal ideals – it’s with a political system that uses those words to shield illiberal outcomes; none of which is possible without liberals who still believe that those words are true despite reality being the opposite.

westerners – americans in particular – live in a strange world where reality is treated like propaganda and propaganda is treated as natural human reality; i know this to be true because i also once believed it.

It stopped me from doom scrolling social media all the time

this is funny because there’s no such thing; once you start to realize that your understanding of the world was molded out of deeply entrenched misinformation, you stop being a liberal just like maga does.

the three biggest that i worked for are the epitome of “big tech” and their ceo’s were at trump’s inauguration. (the ceo’s were different for 2 of them when i worked there).

iirc, all of them were unaware due to heavy duty compartmentalization; but to be fair, it was a different time and they all drank the “don’t be evil” kool-aid like i did.