Oh, you had a libertarian phase too? Mine lasted maybe a month or two before ascending to the more ideologically consistent view of anarchism and then to being a full blown communist a few years later.

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

Libertarian is the first obvious step as an American going “Wait something’s fucked up here”

Especially if you’re from the south

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, same. Right libertarians say things about children's rights/freedoms that sound right if you've never been into politics before and that issue's really appealing if you're a young kid frustrated at how society treats you with no more autonomy than your pet cat, sometimes less. But if that hadn't happened I wouldn't have drifted over to left-anarchism when I figured out right libertarians are self contradictory and bigoted conservatives, and if I hadn't been interested in arguing with "them damn tankies" I wouldn't have wound up an ML, so I guess I'm glad it happened.