I was on .ml for like a year so this account is new but it was what tipped me over the edge into really recognizing the lifetime of propaganda I was fed and how the people and politicians I thought were the ‘good guys’ do not care about people like me in the slightest. So you can say it was the final catalyst for my radical transformation.

Before I stopped using Reddit, chapo was “that one subreddit that got banned for wanting to kill people” but I started reading the posts people make here about North Korea and other countries that I made fun of and thought were just ‘bad’ and it made me start thinking about it.

My path was coming from being a very individualistic and selfish teenager, to a standard liberal cheering on the war on terror and several times at risk of falling into alt right ideologies, to a Bernie supporter, to a vegan, and finally ending up here. I don’t want to call myself a communist or a ML yet because I don’t know well enough how I’d respond if someone asked what that really meant, but I’m getting there and it feels right.

People make jokes about how posting isn’t praxis and most people’s time would probably be better off doing something else. But I don’t think I would have gone further beyond in my intellectual and personal development and really criticized my past self to figure out why I had those views, why I was so selfish and why I and other people who still think that way are wrong. Mainly because there was nobody in my physical space that would have introduced me to those ideas.