When did you get radicalized?

[nachiroux]

For me it was around 2019 when the woke BS started spreading rapidly in videogames and social media. I was mostly apolitical and was blissfully unware of the cancer that was slowing spreading

 

[Spud]

I didn't, they just say I am cause I don't think of my country is an idea or an economic zone

 

[Trump's Chosen]

I didn't change. The world did.

Cue sigma male music

 

[a terminal posture]

2016 and the youtube algorithm radicalized me by suggesting to me 'alt-right' and 'ultra-MAGA' videos. I am putting together a class-action suit against several social media companies as a consequence.

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a kid and it made me totally radical.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

The 2014 midterm elections.

My state literally had on the ballot, "Should the highway tax money be spent on the highway?"

When I saw that on the ballot when I went to vote, I wanted to flip tables and kick down my own voting booth. That question alone turned me from conservative to actual American who understands that all taxation is theft, and both parties suck ass.

The Patriot Act post-911 made me question things (made me question things before I could even vote, actually) ... But the 2014 midterms completed my transformation.

 

[Irregardless]

I didn't change. The world did.

Cue sigma male music

This is a funny meme and all, but at this point, especially after the whole Penguinz0 shit, I can't help but believe it really is the general population that's radicalized. I'd like to think that regardless of how unpopular or controversial my views currently are, they are logically consistent, at least with my own reality as I understand it. Today though around 50% of normies or people who would consider themselves a-political are likely to believe things like "trans women are women", "systemic racism is still a huge problem", be pro-LGBT/pride, pro-BLM, pro-vaccine/vaccine mandate, pro-censorship, etc. Like I believe if a white guy were to say the word "nigga" around your average normie today there is a 50/50 chance they cut you off entirely not because they don't like being around that kind of language or it making them uncomfortable, but because they believe any white person that says the N word is a far right racist, and being far right is evil.

 

[Eagle Bro]

This is a funny meme and all, but at this point, especially after the whole Penguinz0 shit, I can't help but believe it really is the general population that's radicalized. I'd like to think that regardless of how unpopular or controversial my views currently are, they are logically consistent, at least with my own reality as I understand it. Today though around 50% of normies or people who would consider themselves a-political are likely to believe things like "trans women are women", "systemic racism is still a huge problem", be pro-LGBT/pride, pro-BLM, pro-vaccine/vaccine mandate, pro-censorship, etc. Like I believe if a white guy were to say the word "nigga" around your average normie today there is a 50/50 chance they cut you off entirely not because they don't like being around that kind of language or it making them uncomfortable, but because they believe any white person that says the N word is a far right racist, and being far right is evil.

*literally just states my own opinion not even disagreeing with or attacking anyone or anything*

"BAYUND! BAYUND! BAYUND! BAYUND! BAYUND! BAYUND! BAYUND! BAYUND! GONE! FOREVER!
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

WELL ANYWAY,
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Online discourse was ruined by glowniggers and various advertising agencies spamming agendas. Kiwifarms blatantly shows in most of the threads how being a convicted felon or even a murderer is not nearly as bad in the minds of niggercattle as saying NIGGER or FAGGOT or TRANNY.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

I've always been considered radical and every sort of "-ist" because I noticed the truth and unwaveringly stuck to it.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

It's not "radical" to say it's detrimental to a nation to import infinity niggers or that men in wigs are not women.

 

[JohnnyG]

I think it was when the Obama admin decided to reanimate the raycism grift. It wasn't so much watching the Just Us Department get fully weaponized, it was more that even when the multiple felons they tried to turn into victims were caught on tape choke slamming store clerks or attacking civilians or grabbing police guns, the entire Media-University-Celebrity-BigTech complex united in denying it and crying muhpression.

The 20x violence rate became complete taboo, the most destructive members of society were given a free pass by Progs, and middle Americans were told any defense of themselves or their communities would bring the entire Regime's wrath.

 

[Firewater]

When I became a regular on the site and made an account on it, letting me to learn about so many inconvenient truths.

 

[Feefee81093]

Just now

 

[biglurker]

Boston Riots. Everything surrounding that really opened my eyes on so called anti-racism movements, and eventually any shade of pinko movement.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

This is a funny meme and all, but at this point, especially after the whole Penguinz0 shit, I can't help but believe it really is the general population that's radicalized. I'd like to think that regardless of how unpopular or controversial my views currently are, they are logically consistent, at least with my own reality as I understand it. Today though around 50% of normies or people who would consider themselves a-political are likely to believe things like "trans women are women", "systemic racism is still a huge problem", be pro-LGBT/pride, pro-BLM, pro-vaccine/vaccine mandate, pro-censorship, etc. Like I believe if a white guy were to say the word "nigga" around your average normie today there is a 50/50 chance they cut you off entirely not because they don't like being around that kind of language or it making them uncomfortable, but because they believe any white person that says the N word is a far right racist, and being far right is evil.

You're proving the point behind the joke. If the anti-tranny platform hadn't become radicalised, then the general audience wouldn't have bitten off charlie's head for a take that was fairly lukewarm 5 years ago. And it would have been lukewarm because nobody knew what transgender stuff was actually like. People have become radicalised against it, where they don't eant to give a single inch and as a result they care about the takes of some popular streamer as a battleground.

You do searches on this site to only show stuff that is 7 years old or older and it's clear to see that kiwi's have become radicalized.

Moses was a radical, Muhammed, Jesus and so on. But people like you and me don't become radicals because we're innovators
like them, or even because society changes; we're reactionaries, who want to revert something that has already changed. The act of becoming a radical is the decision to say "this is enough" and fighting back.

But then 99% of people who this resonates with are lazy faggots like myself that do little more than upvoting things or talking about things and delude themselves into thinking we're making a difference.

 

[Irregardless]

You're proving the point behind the joke. If the anti-tranny platform hadn't become radicalised, then the general audience wouldn't have bitten off charlie's head for a take that was fairly lukewarm 5 years ago. And it would have been lukewarm because nobody knew what transgender stuff was actually like. People have become radicalised against it, where they don't eant to give a single inch and as a result they care about the takes of some popular streamer as a battleground.

You do searches on this site to only show stuff that is 7 years old or older and it's clear to see that kiwi's have become radicalized.

Moses was a radical, Muhammed, Jesus and so on. But people like you and me don't become radicals because society changes; we're reactionaries, who want to revert something that has already changed. The act of becoming a radical is the decision to say "this is enough" and fighting back.

But then 99% of people who this resonates with are lazy faggots like myself that do little more than upvoting things or talking about things and delude themselves into thinking we're making a difference.

Yea I'd have to agree with you 100% on that. Like I would love to not give a shit about this stuff because in most individual instances I really don't, but it's the conglomeration and rapid increase of occurrences of things like this happening and people giving the kind of take Charlie gave that lead to degenerates turning the "I don't care" response into "I don't care because I agree" and using that to further the normalization of their degeneracy.

 

[Zashaiba]

I used to be a regular poster on /ck/ and one time I decided to click on the weird looking board called /pol/

 

[a terminal posture]

The 2014 midterm elections.

My state literally had on the ballot, "Should the highway tax money be spent on the highway?"

Its always been understood that 'earmarked' revenue is a bunch of nonsense. (we're just 'borrowing' from the social security fund, guys).

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

My paternal family did.

Spoiler: Warning: Long

My grandparents were both were Silent Generation people who grew up under FDR in New York City, though they lived most of their lives in New Jersey. Grandpa told me while he was alive that he was an Independent, but it seems like he was a Democratic Party sycophant most of his life. Their three kids (Baby Boomers), including my dad, are all Democrats. The 2016 election happened when I was seventeen, and for four years straight, because my grandparents watched MSNBC, I heard nothing for four years but pure Trump hate, especially after the media blew Charlottesville out of proportion. Every time I would speak up about my (budding right wing) beliefs, I would just get put down. I registered as a Republican when I turned 18, though I am now not a fan of either party after noticing patterns in politics and studying history via books I have read.

In my senior year of high school (I spent my formative years in Florida and still live there), the Parkland shooting happened, and I live in the same state. I was against the protests, but most of my paternal family was in favor, including my dad's Feminist girlfriend (my parents divorced when I was four). My grandmother once told me in a smug and rude tone, "Who do you think those Parkland kids are voting for, HMMMMMMM??" I was angry over that for a LONG time. I would talk about right wing things, and my dad's girlfriend would respond with Feminist talking points about things like the wage gap, false rape accusations, etc., and my dad would back her up. The Kavanaugh thing happened when I was in trade school, and that's another thing I had problems with the two of them over. My grandfather was the same way. After the NZ mosque got shot up, my aunt got into an argument with me over the phone over both Trump and the Second Amendment and screamed, "We're going to shut them ALL DOWN!!" when she mentioned 8chan getting kicked off the Internet, in reference to other "right wing" websites.

Then covid happened, and they all began to support the whole thing of "WEAR A MASK SAVE LIVES", and I got a LOT of grief from my grandparents because I was (and still am) the only one of them who didn't get jabbed. After a few months of covid being here, I began to see through the nonsense. My grandfather began to push me to wear a mask and get jabbed, and they STILL continued to believe every last word cable news told them. Dad watched it too and was a Bernie Bro for a while. All the while, I continued to read more and more books instead of watching any TV, and my grandparents kept filling their heads with propaganda all day. Because of all the reading I was doing, I was able to make my mind sharper, and I didn't fall for any more of the covid stuff. I went out to get a pizza with my grandfather one day to take home, and as I was on my way back driving with him next to me, we somehow got into a discussion about the Second Amendment and, in a brazen display of willful ignorance and left wing tribalism I will never forget, screamed out, "Fully-automatic, semi-automatic, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?!?!"

After the Ukraine situation started, my grandparents began to openly and vocally support Ukraine, and I pointed out that they're only doing it because the TV told them to and also how the media all hated Zelensky over the Trump phone call, but all of this went over my grandfather's head completely, and he doubled down. During this time, I got into a lot of shouting matches over hot button issues though I tried as much as I could to avoid discussing them with the two of them. One of the worst was when my grandfather was getting into it with me over how voter ID is "racist" and put out the idea of "some redneck" denying the right of a black man to vote and even put on a fake hillbilly accent to make his irate point. My uncle had sometime around the Ukraine thing sent my grandmother a crochet doll of a Ukrainian peasant, and I saw it in her chair in my grandparents' bedroom. This is interesting, since she only has one Ukrainian grandparent that I know of, and she was acting like a full-blooded Ukrainian and even considered putting Ukrainian things on the mailbox - she is also half Russian.

My grandfather died of complications from chemotherapy, and from what I hear up until the day he died he was watching MSNBC in the hospital. Some time ago, I overheard part of a conversation my dad, aunt, and grandmother were having at the table (I was not sitting with them), and I heard my dad put on an exaggerated fake redneck accent to mock one of his cousin's in-laws from South Carolina who was opposed to certain racial language being taken out of American folk songs. I was so livid my face, throat, and arms were bright red. I told him about it later, and he just got angry and made fun of some of my personal tics.

So in short, my paternal family pushed me to the point where I am now incredibly right wing. I do not feel exactly the same on every single issue I argued with them over, though looking back it is so odd how someone can get so hostile towards a relative because they give you some entry level right wing political statement. I have moved past my anger at them, and I now look at politics differently now (I am against both parties and understand there are more political positions in the world other than liberal Democrat or American Republican), but I don't think I can talk that much about it - my uncle doesn't understand how Communism is a left wing ideology (just look at their writings and where that ideology came from - Karl Marx, who was inspired by the Jacobins). I would describe myself as a "Reactionary" now, but of course I can't talk about that with anyone.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I fucked a goat.