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What have you changed your mind about? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And I don't mean things you previously had no strong opinion about.

What is a belief you used to hold that you no longer do, and what/who made you change your mind about it?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nothing I will always be right

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It's Trump!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (14 children)

The ussr and china were evil and nato were the good guys fighting for freedom.

Boy was I wrong on that one. What changed my mind were the tankies on hexbear who consistently were the most knowledgable on a topic and kept being correct with (what I thought at the time) the most obviously incorrect takes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I bet you don't talk to many Finnish people... Or east Europeans.

By the way; Tiananmen Square says hi.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

LGBTQ+ rights.

I was a strong supporter, but the media presence of some "influencers" and subsequent discussions and even proposed laws went way out of hand and into untreated mental health territory.

So now I just ignore any and all mentions about it, to preserve my own sanity. Live and let live, I hope everyone can have the life they want, but I just don't want to hear about it anymore.

Edit: Typos

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Their intentions are generally good but there are individuals that take it way too far and there's often no good way to challenge these ideas without coming across as a transphobe or whatnot.

I'm one of those people who was depressed in their teens because I was absolutely certain I was born into the wrong body and wanted to be a woman. Well that passed and turns out I'm just (mostly) gay instead. God forbid someone had started pushing me into transitioning then. I would have went along with it and that would have been a terrible mistake.

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