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Grew up in a household that always had the news on. Just watched us drop bomb after bomb on cities, as the reporters would stand there in glee as soldiers marched through streets. I was taught "this was normal" by everyone except my family, who deeply distrusted anything the government said. So i grew up anti-war just on principle. Later got super into union history, as i saw people with the same jobs my family had fight against people doing wrong to the. And also ww2, where i questioned why we hated the Soviet Union so much if we fought alongside them during the war.
Finally, in high school, my history teacher brought out a hat full of names so we can do a deep dive into a historical figure and write out a detailed report on who they are and what they did.
I pulled out my ticket: Vladimir Lenin.
"I've got a golden tiickeetttt"
Yeah, not to do a big "i wuz a commie b4 u" thing, because i did not take that assignment as seriously as i should have. I was still a dumb teenager that couldn't care less about school. But, it did force me to actually read theory. Before that i was like "Castro is cool because he has a beard, smokes cigars, and Cuba is cool". Afterwards, i still went lib, but at least i was a "Castro and Lenin are cool, but Stalin and Mao are bad guys" lib. Eventually i also had to self-reflect on why i held those opinions, because as far as i know, i never actually bothered to look up what they did, just repeated what everyone else said.
Yeah growing up I always wondered why people would say "you know mao killed more people than hitler" but still hitler was the one held up as uniquely evil.
Typing that out I can see the path i didn't take and I'm grateful
I remember being in college and seeing this bad boy
I wore one of those 'che guevara hats' (I don't know the real name) with the red star and everything but just because it drew attention
A beret?
Yeah, i usually just wear trucker hats with whatever emblem i feel like having. Been rocking a hat with the palestinian flag for a while.