• multitotal
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    “I fled communism in Nicaragua when I was 8 years old.”

    No, at 8 you didn’t have any agency, your political beliefs were chosen by your parents and further cemented when they moved you to a place where you wouldn’t be exposed to anything else.

    I firmly believe none of these people actually believe or think much about what they’re saying. They just say it cause people clap and they get money for it.

    • knfrmity
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      It’s like the Eastern European 90s kids waxing poetic about their “lived experience of the horrors of communism.” It’s just an aesthetic.