-0--1-<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.edist.ro/@CosmickTrigger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CosmickTrigger</span></a></span> Interesting. I must be one of the godawful <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libtards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libtards</span></a>. Used to consider myself a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libertarian</span></a> until I came to the understanding it was a euphemism for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelfishMotherFucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfishMotherFucker</span></a>. Then I became a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> until <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrentLott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrentLott</span></a> turned it into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigotParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigotParty</span></a>. Once I left the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BubbleOfPrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BubbleOfPrivilege</span></a> and taught science and math in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> and actually did something with my life and grew up, my perspective changed.</p>