@DisasterTransport@startrek.website
Have you ever found yourself in a personal situation that felt like it contradicted your political beliefs?
2026-07-03 08:38 UTC
Replies (14)
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@HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml 2026-07-03 09:19
Well, 20 years ago i was really, really on the left. I mean, i have read “Das Kapital”, i visited political talks, was a member in “Die Linke” (a very left leaning party in Germany) and often participated in protests. Over the years while having increased contact to asylum seekers / migrants during the time after 2015 and after getting the opportunity to get to know many of them (i volunteered to help in some projects) i noticed my political views moving step by step more to the right.
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@MrOtingocni@lemmy.world 2026-07-03 09:41
Yeah, like every day when I drag my ass out of bed to go to work, look around and think “this is a bunch of bullshit”
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@borokov@lemmy.world 2026-07-03 11:54
Yeah, I grew up un rural area. Not “poor”, but population revenu was a below average. Hard works were valuated. Why would I have to give money for people who doesn’t work ?! Those lazy bastard just have to find a job. If someone is rich, it’s because he worked very hard and deserves it. Oh boy what a moron I was… I’m in my 40s now working for a huge company. The less I work, the more I’m paid…
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@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-03 12:14
Yeah, and that changed my political belief. Politics is not a religion. New data should change your views.
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@mistermodal@lemmy.ml 2026-07-03 12:28
Yeah man I used to live in the United States of America
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@belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2026-07-03 18:28
This is called changing your mind with new information. “Politcal” is just a word people use to belittle or poo poo moral and social beliefs and growing and changing with new information and experiences is natural and better than blindly sticking to some idealism to stick within a perceived party line.
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@AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2026-07-03 19:59
Are you asking about being in a situation where you had to act against your personal beliefs, or where a personal situation made you rethink your personal beliefs?
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@CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2026-07-03 23:44
I was seeing this guy who just wanted to go down on me and worship my feet while I told him he was a good boy and stuff like that but then it turned out he was a cop. Does that count?
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@christian@lemmy.ml 2026-07-04 03:35
I believe veganism is ethical but have failed repeatedly in attempts to give up comfort foods. A lot of tastes nauseate me, so I don’t intend to give it another try until I can afford the costs (in time, finances, emotional health) of trial-and-error to find more meals that work for me.
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@benjirenji@slrpnk.net 2026-07-04 06:24
Sure, with Big Tech losing sight of customer needs and going a lot more fascist in recent years I hate working for an American tech company and it’s weird to be a tech enthusiast. Money is great though and I can sleep well at night knowing my product barely has barely any customers to ruin their lives of. Still: I’d love to have a positive impact on the world with my skills, but the job market is shit and my immediate environment doesn’t care as much despite noticing the hostility towards users.
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@python@lemmy.world 2026-07-04 09:12
Yea, working in tech be like that sometimes. I quit my current job because I hate the AI push (especially the part about paying Antropic 250€ per month per employee) and because I think relying on AWS for critical European infrastructure is a really stupid idea. The new job I’m starting in October isn’t much better though. It’s with a company that I would personally never ever enter a customer relationship with. It’s still reliant on AWS, but at least it’s not critical infrastructure. An AWS outage would only cost the company, not the customer. And the AI push in the new company is much milder because the teams there are highly skilled 3-5 senior engineer teams that don’t tolerate being told what tools to use.
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@mineralman@lemmy.ml 2026-07-04 12:31
this is why I’ve made income sacrifices and stayed in the higher ed sector. Lot less of this sorf of crap.
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@dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 2026-07-04 13:22
When I worked as a technician, I had to install windows and help people set up proprietary garbage on a daily basis, despite me being very much into free software. It felt a bit surreal at times when I was setting up AD servers or helping grandmas to use whatsapp while I was using a degoogled phone with lineageos and linux on all my computers and home server. Now I work as a teacher, I can use whatever I want on my devices and encourage my students to do the same.
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-07-06 18:46
In short, I drifted from anarchism to Marxism after joining the work force and understanding more about production, distribution, and complex manufacturing and supply chains. Certainly not towards liberalism, the opposite in fact, into the communist I am today.