• skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    Seeing the Woodstockers of yesteryear become the Boomers of today means that my secondary retirement plan is a bullet. If I ever so fundamentally betray my values like that my friends and family have explicit instructions to put one through my brain stem and put me in a hole. There is no event, experience or injury that exists that can turn me into a conservative without first removing all parts that make me myself. At that point, that is no longer the Skul you once knew, that is a zombie, and it needs to be put down. I will never, ever understand how yesteryear’s free love hippies became today’s “fiscal conservatives”.

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      10 hours ago

      You won’t… The so-called “hippies” turned Trumpers never actually believed in anything, they just enjoyed the music, vibes, and aesthetic.

      I should know, my dad is one of them.

      I was told my whole life that I’d become more conservative as I got older and started working and paying taxes, etc. Literally the exact opposite has happened. If anything, those things radicalized me against capitalism.