I don’t want to give too many details so as to avoid doxing myself. I never left the US and wouldn’t have done so if asked, but fundamentally, I don’t think that really matters. It’s all part of the same machine. It was well before I became anything that could be described as communist, but all that means is that it hit that much harder when I had to come to terms with what I’d been a part of.
Maybe that’s the sort of thing you can’t ever make up for, but I’ll spend the rest of my life trying anyway. If anyone on this site never wants anything to do with me again after having read this, I understand.
I know this is sort of an unfair comparison, but that seems like nothing when you realize there are 100% unrepentant people who directly did the murdering just walking out and about out there unphased by their own ghoulishness
I feel like someone actually harmed by the US government would have to make that judgement but my selfish USian perspective is this