General Politics Discussion VII [ARCHIVED] • Page 1421

my politics have always been perfect

 

thats not real there's no fucking way

 

folks its real

 

i will be sure not to sign

 

Oh no not swear words

 

i was radicalized by anti flag

 

When I was in 6th Grade, I totally fell down the Atheist Libertarian rabbit hole on Youtube.

Thinking it was okay to call feminist critics like Anita Sarkeezian "Feminazis" and discriminate against Muslims from working in grocery stores because they didn't want to touch pork products.

Fortunately, my mom shamed me & my friends made fun of me, so yeah, shaming absolutely works.

 

Yeah my politics were shaped by early Rise Against, Anti Flag, and American Idiot. Thankful my older brother got me into punk when I was 14 before I ended up moving to a super conservative town on the Oregon Coast during high school. Otherwise it may have taken much longer for me to smarten up due to lots of ignorant influences.

My dad going to Iraq sophomore year of high school also drastically changed my views as well. That happening in combination with my new found love for political punk shaped my views at such a young age.

 

Is the NYT low-key implying that calling a fellow congress member a "fucking bitch" isn't "norm-shattering"?

 

Also-- why do peoole on this thread tend to dislike TYT?

I don't agree with them on everything, but they seem to come from a good place, and have a huge platform to push for progressive politics.

 

Cenk personally is kind of a piece of shit isn’t he?

I’ve mostly not liked them because I’ve always felt like they tend to fall into the “non-ideological left” bucket, in that they seem to have a lot of free-floating ideas not really connected to any basis of thought, in a way that makes it seem like they reach the right conclusion almost by accident, if that makes sense. I would put people like Tulsi or Kristal Ball or most people associated with the Green Party in the same bucket.

 

Most progressive platform ever. (no sarcasm edition)

 

i honestly can't put my finger on why i don't like them, but when i watched them a few times i just didn't like them. something about the way they posture i think.

 

Wish someone would’ve called in a cluster strike here

 

When the racist uncle and the dumb cousin team up.

 

Don’t Cenk and some of them also still kind of deny the Armenian Genocide?

 

And union bust

 

Lol

 

I started learning Rage Against the Machine songs on bass when I was 15 so I guess you could say I've been a radical for years