etc

I'm surprised it's still very active

I recognize one of the users on the Politics thread right now "Turtlemayor333"

that guy was a regular on the RuneScape board back in 2006

jesus

imagine spending over a decade of your life regularly posting on Gamefags

I never really spent too much time on game forums, not political discussion at least

I never was too political until 3-4 years ago

what's funny is that I forgot pretty much every username from my gamefaqs days, so now that I'm currently browsing through it again, some of them are triggering flashbacks

what made you more political ?

The climate

looking around, making realizations

I had read orwell right before going into high school and that really got me thinking

I saw all these surveillance systems and a lot of fucked up shit around and I got to thinking about a lot of things

I was vaguely right wing beforehand, but not really politically literate, just a teenager who played a lot of games like normal

Established humor got more boring, movies got more boring, really celebrity culture made me really become apathetic.

This was around 2015-ish

I look at the sjw owned shit and I was really more egalitarian and the such

Then Trump comes around, and I see this guy who's interesting, more interesting than the movies, more interesting than video games, he really was something

I didn't like him too much at first, I was more of a normie and kinda looked at everything like most other people "he's a joke" etc

The more I payed attention though, the more this guy began to amaze me.

I saw a guy who talked brashly but honestly, a guy with his own businesses and couldn't be bought by pacs. I saw something admirable in that.

I found /pol/ early 2016, and that really got me into politics, I came to realize everything that was going on around me, the corruption, civilization falling apart at the seams, that sort of shit

I really got into the election, rode the wave to the election, got very deep into reading about a lot of stuff, and now I'm here.

That's a great backstory, I wonder how many other people your age share a similar path

a fair few I'd bet

I don't really know, there's not really a way to tell for sure until the demographic becomes a pollable part of the electorate

I hope the gen z memes are true though

what are the attitudes of the people you know IRL towards politics

my family really got into the election, especially my father

we were sorta conservative but my parents didn't vote at all

then this election season happens and my dad really got into it

he left cuba decades ago, but seeing stuff like Obama shake Raul Castro's hand really set him off

i got into the election because of the relentless wave of foreigners here in CA

yeah for a lot of people that redpills you like something else

I never got into spanish or anything like that, my dad lived in michigan for a long time so he adapted, matter of fact his grandfather actually went to university in massachusetts if I remember

my mother didn't get into that as much but she warmed up to him and voted for him eventually

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 Was your elementary /middle / high school mostly nonwhite ?

like 10% white

yeah for a little bit you're colorblind and eventually that delusion just breaks

I realized quickly those last few years the self-segregation and group behaviors, all that. kids who spoke spanish in school with their friends kinda pissed me off