Times when your opinion changed

[Brenda Holiday]

Specifically an opinion or belief you held strongly.
I'm open minded to a fault so its rare that I admit to myself that I was wrong about something. Believing incel ideology is one. When I started to interact with people that weren't terminally online losers and stopped generalizing I started to see the obvious holes in the arguments and charts I had once believed.

 

[The Cheese Aisle]

Believing incel ideology is one. When I started to interact with people that weren't terminally online losers and stopped generalizing I started to see the obvious holes in the arguments and charts I had once believed.

Proud of you, this is hard to do. I used to believe "trans women were women" and all that bullshit until covid and I had time away from my (then) peer group and realized none of the arguments hold water

 

[MrTroll]

I've never been wrong about anything my whole life so I have no reason to change my opinions.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

Circuses. They are very cruel to the animals there. I wont go to a circus.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I was kind of against the death penalty, not super strongly, but I now see that in certain cases it's practically required (my only real hesitance is some criminals would rather die than live in prison and so life may sometimes be a better punishment than death).

I wasn't always so strongly against fags, I figured if we could reluctantly concede civil unions to them they'd maybe not attack the institution of marriage, but I see they can't be given an inch or they'll take a mile. I was never really pro-faggot though.

Unrestrained capitalism is evil (DEI & our poisoned food supply proved that) and a certain amount of socialism can be applied in an ethnostate (healthcare, education, etc).

 

[Lovely Kin]

Tourism, I used to be very apathetic towards them or "welcome!", since lockdowns ended we have been experiencing floods of tourism. I don't feel Spanish levels of rage towards them yet, but I will admit many are feeling angry, and I am feeling resentful. Same towards migrants, both legal and illegal, we never really had much of the latter, but with housing prices, rent, and everything increasing, it feels like everyone can afford them but the people who were born and raised here who wind up leaving. I'm in a very conflicted position overall, I would say the tourist money is nice but it doesn't go to locals. They stay in their own little communities with chains and tourist traps. It becomes more of an issue when some find it easier to rent out apartments and homes to tourists, or selling to someone who only visits once every other year leaving the house empty.

My views on race were a simple "lol I don't care" until I dealt with niggers in university and seeing how they toured. For someone like me, I never really saw a bunch of niggers in my lifetime. Always believed they lived in the deep south or big cities. I believe my opinion truly started changing when Michael Brown the "gentle giant" wasn't a gentle giant after all, but they still looted everything.

 

[Calandrino]

One day, coffee starting tasting good.

 

[Psyduck]

Used to believe that countries are just "lines on a map, we are all citizens of the world!" until i had to deal with hondureans, and then indians afterwards.

Turns out, good fences make good neighbors after all

 

[Brenda Holiday]

Tourism, I used to be very apathetic towards them

Same until I lived in a small tourist town. You live there, work there, but you don't feel like you belong or are welcome. Its not "for you", its for the tourists, the only people who matter. Almost makes you feel like a servant.

 

[polaris_VII]

Realized Linux was a waste of time (for me, not everyone else) after distrohopping over and over and not getting any work done. Now I use a version of Windows 10 designed for cash registers and MRI machines, it works well enough.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

I recall being an edgy teen and rebelling from my parents nature by adopting some trad right-wing beliefs based purely on opposition to what I was told to believe in school and by the media. Well, after having sex with a girl in her senior year of high school (and not ejaculating), within 3 days she was saying she was pregnant, and we needed to elope, etc.

I immediately said no, we're aborting this, and its my decision. Done.

Want to argue? Lets get a DNA test, and remind everyone that I am 14, and she is 18.

She tried to fake some tears, but she was fucking some other dude the next day. I can't get jealous of some woman busy to mantrap a boy.

All that she wanted was a baby.

Anyhow, I'm glad roe vs wade made it possible for me to also have a choice in my own heritage. America is Great!

Moral of the story: Anytime is a good time to switch political sides. Repeat as necessary.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Other than petty interests I can't think of an idea that I've completely flipped on. Issues like abortion I've really softened on, I'm now centrist on Israel and Palestine (with a slight pro-Israel bias).

 

[YWNBAM]

Quite a lot, actually. At first I was more of a libfem normie, then I got disillusioned with it during GooberGate and leaned more towards reddit and 4chan, taking in a lot of misogynistic crap as some deep male insight into how men and women work without all the fake corporate pc bullshit. But you can only take so much incel whining, woman hating, faggot cock lust, oh I'm sorry trad based shitposts about wars and manly musle flexing with bath boys and feel empathy for them until it gets old, really, really old with its projection. And so stupid, in fact, that even some sad rich lib feminist's tweets about the pay gap and women in video games sound more reasonable by comparison. Maybe it's the millionth horny post about how all women are whores that fuck everything including blacks and dogs but are also superficial bitches with highest standarts who only want gorgeous chads and money, unlike the poor incel doomer chudderino, that got me.

Or maybe it was the sudden tranny femboy faggot shills that started to infest all male spaces almost simultaneously in the mid 10s.

These days, I'm back to feminism, but much more aware of everything around me and more jaded. Radical feminists sounded crazy and way too mean-spirited to me a long time ago, but now I'm shocked to see how right they were about a lot of things I witnessed but didn't understand the psychology behind.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I wasn't aware that modern feminism was absolute irredeemable putrid sewer garbage, mostly pushed by disgusting hypocrites and people of extremely poor character & quality, but I learned eventually.

 

[Otterly]

Quite a few things.
- Religion. I wasn’t raised religious, and now I believe in God. I’m still not quite down with specific churches as all seem to be very flawed and pozzed but I do now sincerely believe.
-abortion. Wasn’t something I’d ever really thought about much. Having had children, I’m now of the opinion that it’s always killing, and that sometimes that killing is a less awful option than not, but those times are far fewer than what I think I’d have said before.
- alphabet people. Also never really thought about it but was generally live and let live. I feel that has been pushed to the limit recently and I’m a lot less sympathetic. I still wouldnt want someone to be persecuted for being genuinely in a life long partnership that’s same sex but I loathe the promiscuous stuff.
When I think about it all the above are positions I didn’t hold very strongly becasue I’d never been personally challenged by them. When I did think about them more I formed a stronger opinion. However..
… MUH SCIENCE!
I am a scientist. I do still love the wonder and thrill of discovery and I am still blown away by certain things like watching plants bloom and babies be born and the general Processes Of Life. But I am now DEEPLY cynical about things I was quite strongly for before. I would have said before covid that while I believed in personal choice, my recommendation would always be to vaccinate unless there was a genuine reason not to. Now I’m very much cynical. I’d still say the old school stuff is worth it (measles for example is nasty and the vaccine is fairly safe) but I don’t think anyone will ever inject me with anything ever again.
I used to think that the field I was in was a net good for humanity. Now I think it’s a few people trying to do good in a while fucking swamp of evil both banal and less so.
I am probably a bit racist these days. I still try to take people as I find them, but well, you know how it is.
I also thought feminism was about treating women as human beings, and I’m still very much for treating women as human beings and equality under the law, but again, very cynical as to implementation.

 

[GunCar Gary]

i used to feel kind of bad for transexuals, as they used to be known by. never because "they were in the wrong body", but because even decades ago before it was trendy it was very obvious they were weird, sick, sad people. even if they were a little off i figured they were just trying to make the best of a bad situation their brain put them into

not anymore. i don't feel bad for trannies or pooners. not a single one

 

[Bloo]

Trans stuff. For years I was one of the “live and let live” people but knew little about the actual criticisms people had about it. I kept noticing a lot of inconsistencies but thought I could disagree with some minor points and still overall support the movement. More and more trans people kept saying stupider and stupider shit so I actually looked into it properly.

 

[JohnnyG]

Used to think all troons were molestering fetishists. But after some Exulansic videos and seeing how sad the Jaron "Jazz" Jennings story is, I'm aware that while all *adult* troons are molestering fetishists, the kids (and many pre/teens) never stood a chance, since the drugs don't just sterilize them, they wreck their brain development far upstream of sexuality.

Used to be pro-Israel, only-democracy-over-there, glass-the-MidEast type. Couldn't stop Noticing the names on every article calling me a Huwite Supremist Terrist, or insisting my borders be torn down while their got even stronger. Not going to cheerlead for the Palestine/Third-World faction, just want both sides out of my country and off my tax/military welfare.

 

[I hate women (like you)]

When I was a teenager I thought all fiction is gay and retarded and that you need to only read about philosophy, history, economics, that kind of stuff, and not some fantasies of random people. Guess I became gay and retarded cause since then I've come to appreciate it and now I read approximately the same amount of both fiction and nonfiction.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

I used to absolutely loathe Christians when I was younger. Not because of any beliefs they held or anything like that, but because my mom was dating a religious guy at the time and was pretending to be a good Christian woman and tried to force it on me too and I lashed out. Really though I respect people who have something to believe in like that, a lot of people don't seem to function at all without something to worship and I'd rather them be worshipping the guy who's like "hey maybe don't do bad things all the time" than people like Fauci or the all knowing "The Science".