I used to be strictly materialist and atheist. Now I’m pretty spiritual. Don’t necessarily follow a religion and don’t support bigotry but yeah, I’m fairly spiritual now. This is a recent development and I never thought I’d be here like 5 years ago.
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.
That people are smart.
Most people are abject morons who still believe in Iron Age mythology.
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.
math is hard, annoying, useless
then found shaders, procedural art, freya holmer.
so math is hard, annoying, beautiful. well not exactly 180 then.
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.
Hanlon’s razor
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”
Evil does exist, and it wears the mask of imbecility
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.
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.
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 science and programming are hard.
They are not. It’s just a bunch of rules much like learning a spoken language.
Well, I was raised a super political conservative, Mormon. Now I’m an Atheist Liberal. Does that count?
I thought America were the good guys…
That comunism was wrong
I used to be a conservative who shot guns weekly and reloaded ammo. I was deep into the group for years.
The last 6 years I’ve been democratic, gone to protests and do my best to educate others about the dangers of being on the right.
Problem is, on social media, everyone assumes your lying or a bot, so I can’t help convert anyone over to the brighter side.
