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think of this thread like a no judgement struggle session, none of us were right about everything from the beginning i didn't know who hoxha was and for a while just assumed he was some guy that mao purged because the name sounded chinese in my head
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I didn't know what Iran-Contra was (other than something vaguely illegal) until someone showed me that clip from American Dad. E: This was like a year or two ago.
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i always forget which is the racist one: the bell curve or the laffer curve. maybe it's both
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i dont know the cause of world war two or who the parties to it were
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also i believed stalin killed something like 20 million people. when he really only killed like ... 3.7 million. tops.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:
i think its chow chess coo    https://twitter.com/S_Coochan/status/942222664722104321
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:also i believed stalin killed something like 20 million people. related, i once thought the cultural revolution was a bad thing
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whats the time span on this cause at one point i thought socialism and communism and nazism were basically the same thing
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:also i still can't pronounce ceausescu's name. chow-uh-shess-koo
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im not very knowledgeable about the extent of the atrocities when the soviets invaded germany in ww2. hopefully some kind person can give me an overview itt??
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paul_soccer10 posted:i think its chow chess coo The Muppets On PCP posted:chow-uh-shess-koo paul_soccer10 posted:im not very knowledgeable about the extent of the atrocities when the soviets invaded germany in ww2. hopefully some kind person can give me an overview itt?? i didn't include that in the 3.7 million figure. look it's a struggle sesh i gotta get my ducks in a row here
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:still too many syllables for this time of the day wuss-ter-sher
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i dont understand anything politics unless its turned into a harry potter analogy 
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I haven't actually read Marx, I just think that poor people should have more money.
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Calibanibal posted:i dont understand anything politics unless its turned into a harry potter analogy Tom Marvolo Riddleump
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Al! posted:i always forget which is the racist one: the bell curve or the laffer curve. maybe it's both the bell curve is the racist book written by charles murray, and also the shape of the standard random distribution in statistics, so depending on where it pops up it may or may not be racist the laffer curve is the one that says you always have to cut taxes, forever
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I have no idea what the difference is between Leninism and Trotskyism
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i used to think all violence was bad and undesirable
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i'd like to think i've at least a rough idea of a few theorists but i did not understand and refuse to reread the society of the spectacle btw if most of your posts are in this forum and you don't post in this thread you're definitely a cop
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I don't know what a cumtown is and I'm not sure if I want to know
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logikv9 posted:I don't know what a cumtown is and I'm not sure if I want to know
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i also used to think that the US as a nation wasn't built entirely on genocide and racial oppression
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I once thought that liberals could cooperate in good faith with the left.
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the bitcoin of weed posted:i used to think all violence was bad and undesirable same i also stupidly thought incrementalism worked
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oh until the election last year I thought incrementalism as a policy strategy was genuinely effective at improving society over time lmao ive probably got a lot of these e: dammit yinlock you too??
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I have almost zero understanding of political history outside of America and American foreign policy.
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I thought voters make their decisions by carefully evaluating the candidates' policies.
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i haven't; read the unabomber manifesto
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I've lived in the Bible belt my whole life and I used to think liberals were cool and also called myself one because didn't really know any. I didn't know much about the divisions on the left until 2016. I always thought "all these people would be down for socialized medicine and poo poo like that once politicians feel safe talking about it here pretty soon." I still get kind of uncomfortable when online lefties go hard on some Hillary conspiracy because, joking or ratfucking or accurate or whatever, it's still verbatim chudspeak.
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I voted for a student council member based on what they said they wanted to accomplish instead of who was the most hilarious choice.
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when i was very young, i used to believe that if you didn't like either of the major parties, you had a moral obligation to vote for a third party, even though they had no chance of winning
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I used to think "From Beirut to Jerusalem" (1989) by Thomas Friedman was a good book because I heard someone say once "well, say what you will about Thomas Friedman, but 'From Beirut to Jerusalem' was a good book." But I've never read "From Beirut to Jerusalem."
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I thought the general public was not stupid enough to vote for someone like Trump and overt racism/conspiracy theories would be rejected when they got the spotlight. Before that I thought most Republicans just wanted to live their lives without government interference and the weird racists were not a core part of the party. I think this is related when I was a kid I thought when we went to middle school people wouldn’t piss all over the place in the bathroom because they would be older and more mature. Then high school, then college. Now I walk into the office bathroom and try not to step in the piss.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i've never listened to chapo or cumtown 
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