*tap tap* hey is this mic on?

Folks, please ignore my silly avatar. I uploaded it roughly 15 years ago. I’m not an internet wiz as I use to be, so I can’t figure out how to change it. Nor am I a commie. At least, anymore.


What I am, however, after a decade of arguing online and offline, going through major life experiences and trials, getting married and realizing the real world is real, that I now consider myself a MODERATE.


I guess my father was right when he said “it was just a phase”. In the last 7 years I’ve advised county and state political campaigns on data collection and digital advertising. I run a for profit marketing agency, but in my free time I provide my services to campaigns and candidates. It’s been truly enlightening when a colleague or an opposing party opens up a dialogue, debate, or argument that challenges my core beliefs.

I guess I’m trying to convey is to always be open minded. Attempt to research every side of a story, statistic, poll, or “fact”.

16 or 17 years I’ve been apart of this community on and off and I’ve learned so much. In this forum I debated against libertarians during the Ron Paul flood of 08, for some reason I attempted to defend North Korea, and much later I argued for Mitt Romney. It’s been a wild ride folks, and I credit a lot of my current thought process to the memories I’ve here— and every single person that argued against me. Thank you.

I don’t 420 blaze it much anymore (actually for the first time in two years I smoked weed last week. I went on a YouTube bender about civil war revisionism) but I still consider myself a blade. Blade, right? That’s what we called ourselves, I think

 

Hey! I remember you, same avatar and all!

Everything you've written, I couldn't have said better. Marxists in Denmark have at least actually read Das Kapital, compared to the Marxists here in the Southern USA who probably read a quarter of the Communist Manifesto-- equals to about 15 pages I think?

Maybe I'm over/under exaggerating, but that's just from what I've seen and read personally. And yep, Fahrenheit 9/11 was a religious text of mine, and Moore was a religious figure to me. Now... well, not a fan at all.

Thanks for your words, but if I remember correctly this subforum has always been a shitshow. A great, diverse shitshow, which is always fun. Reddit is an echo chamber, and I can't stand it. Opposing opinions make the world go round.

Polarization is absolutely the enemy, as an American it's getting exhausting. You're one or the other. I get called a socialist bootlicker by far rights, and the far left calls me an unforgiving selfish capitalist that hates the poor. Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right.

 

Radical centrism hated by both sides. I think that's a nice middle ground to stand on. Thanks for your warm welcome.