Facky [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoWhat was your most lib moment before you were radicalized (or at all)?message-squaremessage-square290fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1122arrow-down1message-squareWhat was your most lib moment before you were radicalized (or at all)?Facky [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square290fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareComradeSharkfuckerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·8 months agoWhen i was in preschool i voted for john mccain in a mock election because his name reminded me of candy canes
minus-squareLaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·8 months agoA candy cane would also crash an A-4 attack aircraft, so that’s an easy mistake to make.
minus-squareSpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·8 months ago…ok but why were they having preschoolers vote in mock elections?
minus-squareSacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·8 months agoTo teach the importance of participatory democracy, and how it is completely unassailable and the only reasonable way to impart change! Seriously, to brainwash kids into not thinking about anything else besides voting vis a vis politics
minus-squareSpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 months agoLike, this is a thing that you’d do for middle school civics. Preschoolers can hardly read.
minus-squareSacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 months agoBetter to start when they can’t critically think. Ingraining it young means it doesn’t get questioned the same as doing so later
minus-squareAOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoIndoctrination, same reason we make all children say a fascist oath of allegiance every morning
minus-squareComradeSharkfuckerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoI was in a private christian school that also functioned as a church… it was weird
minus-squareDimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 months agoI voted for Bush when I was five because it was the only name on the ballot I could read. I’ve been trying to repent ever since.
minus-squareHohsia [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoWe had a Kerry vs Bush
When i was in preschool i voted for john mccain in a mock election because his name reminded me of candy canes
A candy cane would also crash an A-4 attack aircraft, so that’s an easy mistake to make.
…ok but why were they having preschoolers vote in mock elections?
To teach the importance of participatory democracy, and how it is completely unassailable and the only reasonable way to impart change!
Seriously, to brainwash kids into not thinking about anything else besides voting vis a vis politics
Like, this is a thing that you’d do for middle school civics. Preschoolers can hardly read.
Better to start when they can’t critically think. Ingraining it young means it doesn’t get questioned the same as doing so later
Indoctrination, same reason we make all children say a fascist oath of allegiance every morning
I was in a private christian school that also functioned as a church… it was weird
I voted for Bush when I was five because it was the only name on the ballot I could read. I’ve been trying to repent ever since.
As you should smh
We had a Kerry vs Bush