I used to believe that useful idiots were the exception, not the norm.

I thought America were the good guys…

that people as a whole are inherently good

nope. nope nope nope. people are inherently selfish

half the population of the world seemingly needs to believe in fairy tales and a magic book to give them a moral code. people will, time and time again, do things for their own convenience or desires at a greater direct and immediate expense to somebody else, i.e. knocking somebody over to spill $10 out of their pockets and only steal $2 and run away.

fuck people. people will get respect when they earn respect. everybody else gets basic decency and nothing more, until they prove they’re not an asshole. and the moment they prove that they are an asshole, they get treated like one.

Israel was justified in their (initial) retaliation for October 7.

Gone so far in the other direction that I now firmly believe Israel should be wiped off the fucking map. Decades of propaganda convinced me they weren’t violent colonizers.

Fuck Israel. From the river to the sea.

Hanlon’s razor

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”

Evil does exist, and it wears the mask of imbecility

That people are smart.

Most people are abject morons who still believe in Iron Age mythology.

I used to make fun of vegans. Now I am one of them x)

Politics. We have always been a conservative family (to relate: “conservative” here is the equivalent of the US Democrats, not Republicans!). My grandfather was a party cofounder and lived next door to our countries first chancellor after the war.

But the sheer disregard for the law by the (conservative) chancellor who was in office when I grew up turned me to the political left.

math is hard, annoying, useless

then found shaders, procedural art, freya holmer.

so math is hard, annoying, beautiful. well not exactly 180 then.

Eating meat. I used to vaguely mock vegans when I was in college (UK, so 16-18 years old). I used to say shit like “don’t you just miss bacon though” and “the animals already dead, you might as well eat it now or it goes to waste”. I’ve since done a 180 and I’m close to 10 years of veganism. Best decision I ever made for both my health and mental wellbeing.

I was raised in a somewhat homophobic household. One of my friend groups throughout high school was pretty densely LGBT, and so I grew. Exposure was all it really took.

I used to hate when Avatar: The Last Airbender aired. The episodes felt like they lasted forever, and I had no interest in anything that was going on. I finally finished watching it about a year ago, and it is one of my favorite shows to date.

That comunism was wrong

China bad America less bad.

I think China is no worse than america now. I don’t put effort into buying american products anymore and will happily buy Chinese goods.

Conservatism. Used to be a conservative around being 18-20. Then I left it after I saw what giving 2/3rd of the seats to Orbán did in my country. Now I’m not only an anti-fascist, but I also actively oppose conservatism.

When we thought fascism would never come back, we had to learn fascism was just conservatism at its logical extremes.

Israel.

I thought it was complicated but they had a right to the land because of the holocaust, that countries around them should learn to get along with Israel

Now I know founding Israel was a mistake. Explicitly saying it’s a Jewish state will inevitably lead to other groups being suppressed, i.e. Apartheid if not outright genocide. And they are not hated in the region because Muslims and Jews cannot get along, but because Israel was built entirely on stolen land, and they are still in the process of stealing more and genocide those who stand in their way