Without my consultation or written approval, I was born https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1264594237154361344

I mean I'm being glib but like

while I've moved left over the years I was never conservative to begin with, things just make sense to me

when I was seven my anti-choice biodad described abortion in the most disgusting terms to me and I was just like "huh, okay, I like it"

That could just be because I was kind of a stopped clock as a kid

I mean I probably wasn't all that enlightened as to care about reproductive rights so much as that I found crying babies very annoying and so even an imaginative description of murdering a newborn didn't bother me

I hated the military as a kid too, I need to make that clear, like I've never had any love for it whether I was eight or whether I was thirty

For whatever reason, I don't think there was ever a time I really liked anything that authority figures insisted was very good

If somebody said of me "Penelope is a leftist because she's aneurotypical and congenitally hostile" I probably wouldn't rush to stop them