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I had a TBI as a teenager and went from moderately liberal to full blown anarcho communist.
You meet one person with a brain injury, you’ve met one person with a brain injury. We’re all very different because the brain is barely understood by science and our injuries even harder to quantify.
Also if you look at sufferers of CTE most become aggressive and violent until they end up taking their own lives. See boxers, football players, combat veterans. I think there’s a link between aggression and right wing ideology.
I imagine TBI is going to be more variable in its effects than something from constant low level brain damage (chemically or impact) or from a stroke as well though right?
If my assumption is right, then that would likely explain why you are an outlier, rather than that brain damage's effect doesn't at least trend conservative.
No, whether blunt force trauma (me) or lack of oxygen (fetterman) the exact parts of the brain affected vary from person to person and that would impact political leaning in theory.
So, liberal to authoritarian? Figures.
Anarchists are not authoritarians.
Technically speaking, on paper both anarchism and communism advocate for the reduction of central powers that dictate authoritarianism.
In real world practice however...yeah :/
In what real world context are anarchists authoritarians?
Fake ass ancaps don’t count.
I was referring to the modern day social media "anarchists", yeah. I am a survivor of r/politicalcompassmemes.
I think most real world anarchists aren't arguing on corporate social media for obvious reasons. Therefore it gets co-opted by the libertarian/ancap community, the misrepresentation of the philosophy perpetuates, and then we have comments like the one I was replying to calling it authoritarian. Hence my :/
Yeah, that whole wing of politics doesn’t count as anarchism because it doesn’t challenge capitalism which is extremely hierarchical.
Edit - to anyone reading this who is confused, anarcho communism is essentially the embrace of communist economic organization and the rejection of authoritarianism to get there. Different anarchists have different views about the how but at our core we are against hierarchy in all forms.
Wow. Anarchist and authoritarian in the same sentence. That’s a new level of political illiteracy.