I came from a red area so my initial programming was right libertarian. I was still young amid the US right’s ascendancy in the mid 2010s, and I was beginning to get plugged in to libertarian echo chambers when I first encountered the term ‘antifa’. Since I, you know, engage in politics in good faith, I investigated a bit and followed up to the libertarians with “But aren’t fascists bad? Aren’t we antifascist even if we disagree with others who are also antifascist?” to which I received the customary “antifa are the real fascists”. I knew then and there that I was dealing with unserious people and began drifting left from there. I then had a left anarchist phase but grew out of it lol

Yellow Parenti ofc

Not to be too topical but it was Parenti who dispelled my liberalism. Stop recommending On Authority to anarchists.

Crunchy was a typo of cringey. But I stand by it.

Crunchiest take was “the only consistent anarchism is egoist”. The thing that brought me away from anarchism was “the only consistent anarchism is egoist”. If you want to be academically consistent then anarchism is fine; if you want to affect the real world it’s self-defeating. I grew up and stopped prioritizing feeling smart.

It’s not much of a silver lining, but the general bleakness of the world lately finally inspired me to exercise for the first time in months. I wish I was disciplined enough that it didn’t take watching innocent masses bleed to get me off my ass but hopefully that comes with the endorphins

Besides here, where do yall get your news? I personally use some mainstream bourgeois sources and try to read them critically, but so much of that just feels like noise.