I remember there were polls about it, but I cannot find them.
This one user is convinced the users here are literally below the age of highschool. I’m 25 myself and remember seeing people above the age of my parents posting, so I wonder if there’s information on the ~population across ages.
early 20s.
funny they mention age because i used to be a reich-winger when i was way younger. only kept moving more and more left as i grew up.
and i don’t intend to “leave the left” anytime soon either. fuck that. never felt as blissful in any spaces other than in lefty spaces, like the grad and hexbear. none of the brainrot i’d usually feel when i used to browse through stormfront (reddit) or any of the other mainstream media.
honestly a pleasant break from being surrounded by reactionary reich-wing assholes all the time.
Yeah I know a lot of commies that had fash phases when they were young teens.
Personally I was a fairly vanilla lib in my teens but yeah I know plenty.
I was a super naive liberal in my teens until I experienced tear gas.
I remained a liberal but that got me started on a leftist journey at least.
Damn I was radicalized by posting you were radicalized by actually experiencing something.
I wish it made me a leftist overnight. It didn’t.
I did have extremely naive beliefs about how I had a right to free speech and to organize and assemble peacefully, and that the police were there to protect us while we did it. Those beliefs ended that day.
I mean yeah. I say I was radicalized by the Mike Brown wave of BLM but I still held on to a lot of liberal beliefs for a long time so its not entirely true. I just source that as the starting point.
It still chills my blood remembering how many BLM leaders disappeared or were “suicided.”
I need to read more on this, where did you get it from?
There’s a fair bit out there but there’s no one centrally reliable source.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-ferguson-activist-deaths-black-lives-matter-20190317-story.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ferguson-death-mystery-black-lives-matter-michael-brown-809407/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/puzzling-number-men-tied-ferguson-protests-have-died-n984261
I was a “socialist” the moment I knew it was a term that existed, but only became a marxist leninist when I saw endless amounts of police brutality and realised how necessary it is to have a structured political organisation to actually bring about change. Realising it is possible to have a concise course of action towards liberation, and that so many have done so in the past with dramatic improvements to life as a result has given me more hope than anything else I can think of. It is haunting to think of ever turning against the struggle as some people unfortunately have done with age. But I do not think it is because they became “wiser”, and I do not see myself becoming right wing any time soon. Especially as the brutality of the imperialists becomes more pronounced.