I'm curious about the personal background of people on this board. So, user, what's your educational level, profession, etc.? Tell us about your family, especially their class background and ideology. I'm especially interested in hearing stories from red-diaper babies, since that's pretty much a non-existent phenomenon where I come from.
It's up to you how much you want to answer, if anything. Be as vague as you want.
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education: secret communist world order organization teached me all i know
profession: kill fbi agents
I'm from Japan but live in America (I got married here so I'm staying)
I have two doctorate degrees in Chemistry and in Biology
I'm a grad student, so I work both for my adviser and part time at KFC
My mom was a fisher and my dad was a linguistics professor. Both are communist
i work at the zoo's baboonarium
Had similar thread before already
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I'm white, male, and from the rural American south. Most of my ancestors arrived in America before the revolution. My ancestry goes back to one of the first colonists of my state and from there to Jamestown. Note that this is pretty common for rural white southerners of all classes, since the region had neither industry nor cheap farmland to attract later immigration.
Each side of my family has a different class background. One is from the deep south, and ranged from plantation owners to yeoman farmers. I would describe my grandparents on that side as petit-bourgeois landowning farmers in the top 10% of wealth, they had "help" when my parent was growing up. My relatives from that side are highly educated (for many generations) and rather conservative, but are too elitist to be all in on Trump.
The other side is from my own state, and is working-class. My grandfather is from a union town in Appalachia and grew up in the depression; my ancestors on that side were first poor farmers, then proles. My grandfather was able to go to public college with government aid and get a decent salaried job, but struggled during the 80s. Politically, those relatives are Christian-left New Deal liberals.
My parents met in seminary, and so were highly educated but not highly paid. I went to a rural public school and lived in a typical subdivision. We definitely weren't rich, but my grandparents' farm wealth ensured that we never had a serious financial crisis and I was able to attend a fancy college. Now I'm an undergraduate student.
My personality is more like the richer side, but I had a lot more contact with the working-class relatives. I was raised with their political beliefs, but became a leftist as a teenager.
it's all good, comrades
Sometimes I wonder how I even got the chance to be a marxist
I got into far left politics from a contrapoints video link on reddit, from there i went to chapotraphouse, from there to breadtube and finally somehow i came here. Sometimes i wonder how different would i be if i wasn't aware of all the shit going on.
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Exiled to Siberia
Wolves taught me communism
Killed my first capitalist at 11
Turned over a plant to worker control by a one person strike
Refuse to fuck until global communism
well all my background is exactly the same as this guy , except my mother's family is not conservative but liberal, also i'm a chemical engineer, so i work with industry, which i find kinda fitting for a marxist in a weird way, also i have a single science article under my name, which is the only half good thing i've done, and although i'm working on more i work at a call center to sustain myself. what else?, oh yeah i'm still a kissless virgin, and my ability to socialize with people is bad to a degree that causes me depresion
one day i coalesced in this spatial dimension and decided to read some books
You're the hero we need but don't deserve.
I was born in Sweden, but now live in the U.S. My mothers side comes from Finland and Russia, my fathers side from Tunisia and France.
My mom was a socialist, and her family in Finland (great uncle, etc) fought in the civil war on the side of the reds, and would end up fleeing to the Soviet Union after their defeat. The great uncle lost his family in the war (killed by Nazi filth), survived the siege of Leningrad and fought with the Red Army all the way to Berlin. Pretty proud of the guy.
My parents are in the twilight zone of labour aristocracy and petite bourg (Or upper-middle class sort of in common parlance). I.e. my mom is a sys-admin that later started her own company as a one-person consultant operation. My dad was low-level management kinda at a bank (never actually figured out what he did). Both are, predictably, liberals. Naturally political discussion is completely impossible as all my ideas sound completely alien to them. My sister is an uninspiring liberal feminist (she studied retail focused economics, so very much engrained in the present state of things), but my brother is a firefighter and essentially a left-socdem.
I am currently doing my masters in robotics, and if I can ever finish this shit I will be the highest educated of all my siblings.
I believe we are about 3 generations removed from poor swedish dirt farmers, which is true for most swedes I think.
two dull animals smashed their genetails together one day and I was sharted upon the earth a few months later. Then 30+ years of inconsequential shit and misery. at least it made that glorified chunk of fat smart enough to not want to coerce another rotting unit of meat and blood into living.
Wish I could say it feels good but it don't
Question for both of you, in what way did you believe the sjws were ruining videogames? do you still believe it?
Almost finished my bachelors in SE.
Moms an avarage paid person, dad is slightly above avarage paid teacher.
Been bullied since I can remember. Have had depression from 10 years old until 22, when it suddenly ended halfway through this year.
Kissless virgin, have huge self image issues, could not imagine anyone liking me or imagine me having sex. Meet very few new people, only have 2-3 friends I can hang out with. Cant seem to finish anything, cant seem to be happy in any moment, best I have now is that I dont feel sad or dont want to kill myself anymore.
Grandparents are dying, mother is stressed the fuck out, sister is a narcicist. Can't really talk to anyone about anything, my parents think I am going 100% fine and currently I am the only thing holding my moms sanity together with my facade of a good life. Every time I try to even subtly imply I am struggling with major issues my parents tell me to stop whining.
Spend half a year studying abroad (am european, went to asia) but all I did was be even more depressed than usual because I had noone to hang out with (language barier, didnt fit into the group of other exchange students). Despite girls approaching me because I was foreign and even going on a date, never really did anything with it, had too much self image issues only compounded by the fact that other foreign students seemingly constantly banged girls.
But I dont wanna kill myself anymore so thats good news, I never would have thought that I could go months without wanting to do so, I used to think about suicide every two days before.
But if life doesnt get any better than this it might as well end now to be honest. I dont particularly enjoy living, im just going through the motions. The only reason I hadn't killed myself back then and why I probably never will is because it would devastate my grandfather and mother. Perhaps when they pass away when I am 50/60 I can finally kill myself.
Came here because gaymergayed (mostly just for the porn on /d/) saw leftypol, always had been crypto-marxist and was an 'anarchist' at the time, went into it, saw there were people like me who thought the same thing and became a full on commie marxist.
Not them but I dont give a fucking about muh esjaydubblejews anymore.
Obviously a good few of them just used the newssensation and attention to shill their scamshows and I doubt any of them care about games. But right now it devolved into faggots whining about "muh womyn in battlefield and she has a hook arm iz unrealistic weeeeeeeh" even though that whole game is an unrealistic, anti-historical piece of shit, portraying the battle for my city with foreign soldiers when it was just a small group of our soldiers holding the germans off for a little while. Its shit like that all the time.
The anti SJW thing was mostly just a continuation from my atheism years and my aversion for pointless identity politics over actual issues. I never dropped either atheism or hate for identity politics, but I stopped putting energy I dont have into hating american campuswackos who live a litteral half world away.
I suppose it wasn't so much that the "SJWs" were ruining video games as it was ruining discourse and journalism by calling everything sexist, racist, homophobic etc. reviews giving Gone Home 9/10 and stuff like that. I had been cheated on so I suppose there was a sort of loathing of Zoe Quinn as well. In my case it may have been a sort of dislike for women in general being masked as "ethics in games journalism"
The real issues about games that have always irked me the most about games in general (loot boxes, on disc DLC, microtransactions etc) are all problems of businesses trying to milk more money out of the consumer, it's a capitalism problem.
I don't really care about "SJWs" anymore because the term has lost all meaning, as it is now it's just a caricature to demonize any leftwing (and at this point even centrist) points of view. Also don't have the time for most games anymore and wish I had spent all the time I'd spent on games on other hobbies. Maybe I could have been a decent painter or musician. Who knows.
Bizarre, becoming Marxist has not helped me make many friends, because everyone at my university gets offended when I try to tell them not to apply for Lockheed Martin jobs.
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But the opposition doesn't even have a plan for saving the country. They're just going to destroy all the social programs, let the US take over the oil fields, and call it a day. The media will stop reporting on the starvation and stuff because the neoliberals will be in power and life will go on.
I'm sure mass privatization will fix your problems. Also nice english.
minimum monthly salary, clarifying
i'm a shut in so i just shitpost on the internet all day after school
What's the Left like in Japan? It seems like it was a hotbed of labor militancy from 1900-1950, with a peak in revolt in the postwar occupation period before being transformed into a nation of 60+ hour workweek classcucks ruled by the LDP's one party state. On the other hand, this stereotype seems to be counteracted by terrorist groups like the United Red Army, and a seemingly large proportion of Marxist academia. What's the reality here?
I'm a Chinese American guy who grew up in a quaint little college town in the US. Both of my grandfathers fought on the communist side of the chinese civil war. One of them came from a family of provincial gentry that were all on the side of the nationalists; He was radicalized by one of his teachers and ended up getting disowned by his family. The other came from a vaguely small village artisan type background. Both of them were rewarded with cushy jobs in the corrupt party bureaucracy, which meant that my parents both grew up in a pretty decent environment as far as china goes.
Both my parents grew up during the the cultural revolution in china and came to the us as students during the reagan boom years to become white collar tech professionals, so their politics both became strongly pro-reagonomics and "anti-communist" (they conclude from the shittiness of the cultural revolution that scandinavian welfare states are bad). And my mom is a "pragmatic" dem and my dad is either a lolbert or a tucker carlson conservative or crypto-fascist depending on the day
I think it's pretty great that I've become a leftist in repudiation of my dad's conservative politics, which was a repudiation of his dad's communist politics, which was a repudiation of his dad's conservative politics. I don't know what this means for my kids though.
I had went through a short lolbert phase and a paleocon/beginning of dark enlightenment phase, but after figuring out that more upper-class culture or cultivating "virtue" wasn't going to do anything to stop the ravages of capitalism, realizing that postmodernism and idpol are consequences of neoliberalism, and being influenced by marxist and hegelian profs and friends from school, I've become pretty solidly socialist. Currently a stemlord grad student that spends my life writing code ten hours a day in the shitty basement of a brutalist concrete physics building. Was a kissless virgin until i became a socialist if that matters to anybody.
Shitty for who? Party people with cushy jobs got it shitty but peasants got to farm in communes so that's good at least
20 y/o Burger. Italian family. Was a conservative idiot until I became an even bigger liberal idiot. Came to this board and got enlightened. Helped my bro become open to Marxism, too. Going to an online-only school for cinematography, but idk what I want to fuckin do at this point. The film industry is just so exploitative and corrupt that I don't wanna be there, but I just want to create something beautiful and tell someone's story, but that's idealistic thinking at best. Currently trying to inherit Italian citizenship to be an EU fag because I'm in love with someone from Europe. Seeing where it goes.
Nah man, communal farming was a thing before the cultural revolution even started.
The cultural revolution ended up being shitty for kids in the party bureaucracy, but it was also started by kids of the party bureaucracy in Beijing who thought that class was hereditary rather than economic and attacked everybody whose lineage wasn't "revolutionary" enough
lmao looks like they brainwashed you too. The GPCR was good.
also what is up with self-hating, USA-loving Chinese Americans?
America is a wastebin into which the world throws its trash, pic very much related
The concern was over people (mostly journos) with a "liberal agenda" threatening, coercing and blackmailing devs to change the content of their games to be more politically correct. The lack of respect for the artist's original vision, shameless bullying tactics, ruthless careerism & collusion to accomplish their goals, regardless of the nature of the changes made to the games, was what infuriated /vpol/ to the point of total myopia. The possibility that a dev might have changed the content of their game for the more tactful anyway, had they first noticed by themselves something worth changing, never even occured.
To this day gamers still lose their shit every time a dev is thought to have been pressured to change something in their game for the more politically correct, meaning they "caved in to the demands of the SJWs". Of course it doesn't happen neary as often anymore and I honestly couldn't give less of a shit about it anymore even if it did. All this culture war bullshit is tiny potatoes compared to what regular ordinary-ass capitalism is doing to vidya. Comrade Sterling points the way forward.
hi my name is billary bilderberg and i'm a zionist marxist banker created by the soros party
education: librel hollywood
profession: subvert western civilization through muhammed the profit and womyn in video games
Dad is a secondary school teacher so low middle class I guess and mum is a bus driver so working class. Dad's family was mostly an engineering one while my mums stemmed from a combination of polish aristocracy and orangeman working class (quite the controversial union)
Mum is Marxist but more likely ancom than ML while dad is socdem
I'm an electrician so skilled working class but I've also got plans to study politics and international relations at uni, I'm also an ML
and he did lmao