I'm gonna blogpost for a minute cuz this year has been surreal for me (it's 2020, duh).
I have been a fence sitter for a long time, years even because "politiks is st00pid" and I always hated the dumb irl debates (which would just devolve into insults) my parents would get into growing up, but I realize I've been lying to myself, because despite that official stance, I do follow politics and have found myself repeatedly defending Trump over the past four years to my peers. I do not have any great love for him and I did not vote for him (but I was happy he won, fuck Hillary), but I am extremely aware of how the msm and social media cherry picks and spins everything he says to prop up OrAngE MaN bAD when the reality of what he said is quite different in context. I have lost a lot of friends over politics, not because we openly disagreed but because they became more fanatical about LGBTQUIAGSJDKYWQSK+ "rights" and becoming little revolutionaries and from my own cultish experience with religion growing up, the last thing I want to be or trust is a zealot. I ignored it, I thought it was just a phase, they'd grow out of it and continued to look into issues/opinions as they interested me.
Alex Jones has always fascinated me and whether I agree with him or not, I admire the man for continuing the stand back up and fight to be heard every time he gets knocked down. I saw he was on Tim's stream and watched, I was disappointed that Tim kept cutting him off to "fact check" (like Joe Rogan did in their last podcast) and essentially derailing the conversation so Alex could never get his point across. Alex is a big picture guy with ADHD brain that gets lost in rabbit holes trying to explain everything. People want to hear what he has to say, I want to hear what he has to say but it's difficult to find the plot because of his chaotic communication style (he even cuts himself off with ads on his own show which I understand, but its a shame). If what Alex is saying is baseless then let him talk and we can all laugh at the lunacy, but there has to be some truth there or the banhammer wouldn't be coming down so hard on him. Or maybe it's just Streisand effect. Regardless, I related to flip floppy centrist Tim Pool politically, but this interview was another redpill in my 2020 redpill/blackpill existential extravaganza. Thank you Tim Pool for being a giant fucking pussy, without your cuckoldry to alphabet soup corp. I wouldn't be royally pissed off and waking up to the situation around me. This incident even prompted me to find the post-it I wrote this account log in on so I could REEEE and be MOTI instead of just lurking.
tldr; The intolerance of the tolerant left has pushed me so far up against a metaphorical wall that I will not tolerate their bullshit any longer. We can't "just get along" anymore and I find the calls for love and unity from the left hollow and bitter. I found out I have plenty of fucks to give about politics and a desire to actually do something about it because if I don't stand up for myself and my beliefs, I cannot expect anyone else to take up the cause for me and I get what I deserve for being silent and apathetic. I've also never had a such an interest in political history (thanks
@EmuWarsVeteran !) and looking for the patterns as I do now.