I’m betting most of us were much more lib/right-wing in the past

I really don’t get how we’ll all nod along to this obvious truth and then turn around and do the “if you aren’t my brand of True Leftist right now you’re basically a fascist” bit.

Jokes about shooting people who don’t perfectly agree with your every opinion = terminally online, identifying people who can be moved left and putting in the work to do that = touching grass. There’s a reason all the leaders of real world mass movements sound like the latter, i.e., sound like they are actually trying to reach the masses.