askchapo

I always loved history, especially 20th century. My parents were apolitical "both sides bad" types they didn't provide any real guidance, but taught me to think critically.

I grew up in an extremely conservative area in the late 90s, where mentioning Michael Moore got you labeled an extremist and I was told the Black Panthers were just their version of the KKK.

The stolen election of 2000, 9/11 fever, and the Iraq war all started to sour me on American politics, but Republicans were obviously worse.

I spent a lot of time with airsoft players, who are ludicrously fascist, and this shaped my view of how the chud mind works.

I started listening to punk music a lot and became a left-lib, theory-avoiding, lazy western ancom through the bush-obama years.

Watching the DNC ratfuck Bernie in 2016 and russiagate finally got me to start unlibbing my mind. Chapo the podcast and subreddit were major influences in pushing me all the way left. A 20+ year journey to figure out everything's fucked and it's not gonna get better. At least now I understand why.