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43 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1 Dec \ parent \ on: Trying To Get A Friend Interested In SN meta
Oh man, sounds like it's gonna be a tough nut to crack.
If you don't mind my asking, @siggy47, how did you get to have the views that you have? It seems like a lot of your friends are in the highly educated, liberal, NYTimes/MSNBC bubble, but that you aren't.
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 OP 1 Dec
You're right about my social circle. I think my politics were rooted in my childhood. My dad grew up in extreme poverty and was very motivated to succeed. He was just a natural born free market guy in a sea of socialists. He supported Nixon against Kennedy in 1960. That simply wasn't done in a working class catholic immigrant community.
I found the whole Austrian economics/libertarian thing on my own in my late 20s.
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43 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1 Dec
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Hope that some of your views will rub off on your friends.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 1 Dec
They're hoping the opposite 😀
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1 Dec
lol... as if the entire corporate media complex isn't trying to get you to change while reinforcing their views. You're the one actually speaking truth to power, not them.
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