someone on r/cth really pushed me into a veil-piercing moment when they pushed back on my probably NYT-derived perspective on Maduro in venezuela. I did a bit of fact checking and realized I'd been straight up lied to.

Plus sexuality/gender stuff has made me a lot more commie tbh. Trans people largely being so desperately poor and liberals basically just sneering at them or at best pitying them, and the rise of assimilationist trans media figures, and then learning a better history of the lbgtq rights movement(s) made me realize none of this was new and that assimilationist gays did the same shit 20+ years ago. It really reinforces the fact that it's one struggle and our solidarity has to be absolute.

Bernie getting ratfucked helped too I guess but honestly I wasn't quite as invested in that campaign as some. It was just like "yeah duh, this is the bare minimum and it would still improve countless lives"