Hello, baby Marxist here!
Personally mine was reading.
When I was a liberal I loathed reading and found it hard to even read a short article. I rarely researched everything I heard, and as a teenager, I was like every other liberal, getting my news off social media.
Now I make sure to research everything, however, getting into theory is a bit hard. Most of the information I learned about communism was through fellow comrades, because like before, I got my information from other people’s comments.
Currently I’m restoring my motivation for reading by starting small. Reading long comments from comrades helped a lot. I’ve now moved on to reading information from leftist sources without effort, and I’m starting on reading the communist manifesto.
Enough about me, what were your side effects?
“I’m a reactionary Conservative but I don’t want to be judged for that” is how i’d translate it.
“I accept everyone equally unless they’re poor, working-class, or outside of the Free And DemocraticTM West, then they can go fuck themselves”.
“I also think you are stupid enough to believe I’m not just some reactionary conservative.”