2008 election cycle --> I was 14 or so. pre-FOX Glenn Beck ranting comparing the press coverage between Obama and McCain. First time I ever gave serious thought to the idea that the press might lie.

2012 or so --> Brief libertarian left period. Nothing too cringy. Probably watched too much leftist viewer-supported TV and listened to too much Johnny Hobo.

Early 2013 --> One random day I was wasting time browsing the Internet and decided to google "race crime statistics."
"Is that a real thing? My god, look at these numbers; it is." Then googled "race IQ statistics."
"Is *this* a real thing? My god, look at these numbers; it is." Somehow I got linked to relevant posts on CORRUPT and Amerika and then ANUS and nihil.org and read most of the articles.

I'd say the reason I'm not a libertarian idealist and now a libertarian realist is....the fact that I'm a realist 😄

trivia

i'm a totalitarian

my great-grandfather whose picture i posted the other day

apparently, he took part in the infamous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ahovi%C4%87i_massacre

this area is some 20 minute ride from my mountain cottage

I TURNED TO REALISM EARLY IN LIFE

AT SOME POINT IT BECAME CLEAR

THAT LEFTISM WAS ITS OPPOSITE

THUS: CRUSH THE WEAK

'realism' ---> promotes a worldview based around mythological art and traditional metaphysics. and let's not forget brubru

pc satan pizza pedo monster energy illuminati reptile satanic ritual government conspiracy

come on mrb

you can do it

Phone keeps ringing lol

#OfficeLife

My inflection point (around 2000) was internalizing a sort of (what I found out later was) existential nihilism. I took everything as a subjective meaning at that point - mostly seeing politics and societal norms as a somebody else's meaning. Looking only at outcomes and ascribing own meaning (without rationalizing) I came to a point where I realized it's all bullshit, and the only reality was that likes belong with likes sharing the same reality (or interpretation) where commingling philosophies/ethical systems createing problems. Moral relativism disgusts me, and I see some of that in liberatarianism.

@fallot all this trump drama happens the day after cernovich's interview. Maybe it really had merit

the Rice drama @devolved ?

I'm definitely very wary of Cernovich, he ticks a lot of boxes

the biggest one being crypto-gay

All this stuff about bannon

Nunes recused himself

@fallot you tick a lot of boxes

Yeah like the terrorist watchlist

bisexual muslim 'clinton is the best choice among possible candidates'

@fallot i'm never forgeting that last one

@fallot in 30 years i'll still use it

Was that before or after trump announced

i think it was after

during the primaries

"'clinton is the best choice among possible candidates'"

Is not unreasonable at all.

Maybe she still is.

nester going deep to support his hero

Clinton as best choice?

I can never be partial with anything he talks about, so everything he talks about I can't anymore.

uh

Yes, @MRB. Maybe things need to get worse before they can get better.

that sentence seems off