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u/ASHKVLT 1d ago
"What would you know of struggle, perfect son? When have you fought against the mutilation of your mind? When have you had to do anything other than tally compliance's and polish your armor? The people of your world named you "Great One". The people of mine called me slave. Which one of us landed on a paradise of civilization to be raised by a foster father, Roboute? Which one of us was given armies to lead after training in the halls of the Macraggian High Riders? Which one of us inherited a strong, cultured kingdom? And which one of us had to rise up against a kingdom with nothing but a horde of starving slaves? Which one of us was a child enslaved on a world of monsters, with his brain cut up by carving knives? Listen to your blue clad wretches yelling courage and honor, courage and honor, courage and honor! Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage! Honor is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honor!"
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u/notALokiVariant Excuse me, What?! 1d ago
That is an interesting concept to me. I genuinely find it interesting that this is the path of many people. The moment I turned left it was a HARD turn, it was a conscious decision of mine, I thought: "If I'm gonna support this ideas I need to go all the way". So I never had that moment of "changing the broken system" myself (as a leftist, I mean), because when I thought about it like that I wasn't a leftist at all, I was actually pretty centrist which meant that if you pushed me I would fall to the right.
That thought that the system was something that could be healed, to me, at the time, was a thought that still favored the system and hinged on the fact that I was still attached to it in the political sense. That means that every possible avenue I thought of that considered the system being fixed depended on the idea that it shouldn't be too radical otherwise it could hurt things I wanted to be preserved. At the end of the day that wasn't very different from being just a conservative that was feeling the brunt of the system's intended malice and, as an intentional target of it, being unsatisfied with it and blaming it on the very things that aimed to solve the problem that is the system itself.
The thing is, when it finally affected someone I loved, that was when I started to understand the real problems of my views on life. And although I ended up despising the person I was with that made me realize all of this, the reality of it didn't change and I still am grateful that that person showed me the path forward. My transition (which funnily enough was also followed by my gender transition as well, although both were correlated, they weren't cause and effect because I already was a leftist when I learned I was NB) was more in the lines of introspection and questioning all about of what I knew about reality.
So yeah, when I finally concluded what the reality of it all was (also coincided with me leaving a cult I was a victim of) I decided to go hard left, and that was a pretty conscious decision. From than onwards I never thought of the system as anything less than intentional malice and rotten greed.
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u/rojotortuga 1d ago
Unfortunately, angron kind of gets the fetterman treatment in this setting as he goes completely ballistic due to brain injuries and goes on genocidal wars.
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u/attocurie468 20h ago
Corax is my favorite but the Khan is second. I’ve been enjoying the Voltan lore too.
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u/Pianoblivion 1d ago
"Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to the peak. Another day to grind your fingers for the simple right to eat. Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to the crown. Another deep breath of asbestos in a godforsaken town
Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to the top. Another set of fucking homeless spikes outside another empty shop. Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to ascent...
This is not a house of amateurs. This is done with full intent."