I got into death metal around ~2000. At that point I reached the incredibly named anus.com.* Y'all might laugh, but this was a super reactionary place at that point. I'll always remember the triggering moment for me: a simple question of whether culture determined race (social constructionism), or whether race determined culture. Just that possibility led me down a rabbit hole that never ceased. My nasty right-wing thoughts ever permeated, and after a touch of Sowell, I was done for.
*These days, some of the reviews on the old website are available at deathmetal.org.
--- a little drunk, so including some links:
**Never stopped creating and being into metal. Recent album from me: https://youtu.be/s3t07Bm_xYc
***and some beautiful metal from one of my favorite metal bands - no worries about wokeness here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX08XkWW7HU&t=1759s
**** and some more nice black metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIkL52qlcHA
I don't think I'm a radical anything. If anything, I'm an extremely low key person. If anything, I hate the fact that I have to talk about politics and know about this shit and all. I'm not above average intelligence, I just want to stay home, bake cookies, read my books and pet my dog.
The thing that made me realise that the left is absolutely fucked was living in Sweden for some time.
You know how they say you are a small town bigot who never saw the world? I did live abroad, I speak multiple languages and learning another right now, I read a fuckton, I dated foreigners, I did all the things they like to say would "cure" me.
And Sweden still made me realise that libtard shit makes people aimless, unsatisfied, scared, unsure, unhealthy and just generally failed human beings.
And that's ignoring the third world menace.
Now if we were on Reddit, some liberal or even a Swede on copium would show up and tell me about those bullcrap "studies" about life quality. What they ignore is that a Swede would NEVER tell some random researcher that they are deeply unhappy. Sure, maybe they would say they think homos don't get enough free things and "racism is still an issue" or whatever is trendy, but you don't see all the unhappy yung people hopped on antidepressants (If anything, that would be a positive in the study, because HURRR, healthcare), drinking themselves into an early grave, feeling lonely, isolated, without an actual identity that's not about fitting into some socjuc cult, etc.
I'm a Swede. This is certainly true for the majority of Swedes. Sadly.
I used to be super jealous of you guys before I moved there.
The Swedish friend I lived with used to be in a friend group with a bunch of artsy people. I've always been interested in arts, like painting and such, but my working class, Eastern European family couldn't just let me become a starving illustrator or something.
In contrast to that, a bunch of the Swedish people from that group went to art school, had gallery shows, did those art zines together, etc.
But then I realised, they just farted away those opportunities. They spent their expensive college years doing weed and joining feminist clubs when they had animation studios at their disposal.
They refused to develop skill sets that can be useful and earn you money because they had the luxury of not having to be marketable.
I had precisely the same experience in South Korea.
I think that world travel and living abroad acts as a vaccination against the colonialist woke retard world view.
What we all need to understand is that we are up against the utmost of authoritarian theocratic ignorance. We are all Galileo. We need to not die and preserve truth. Stay close, build families, build resources, and continue on. We shouldn't be radicals, but we are.
I think it is more being open and understanding of the data rather than living experience, all the living abroad will do is give more opportunity to gather more close linked data that is observed directly by yourself.
(You just reminded me to make sotteok-sotteok later this weekend :P)
I never asked to be given this role. But I am the kind of stubborn asshole who can't just be made to participate in stupid stuff. If I was interested in being popular, I would do that.
Just when I thought hotteok was the pinnacle of street food, you introduce me to sotteok? Now I have to go to Korea because I don't know where the heck I'll be able to find this.
You can make it, it's super easy and you can buy everything at any Asian grocery store. They don't even take long.
I personally do it in my air fryer, but you can use a pan. Message me if you decide to try, I can walk you through it. :D
I made hotteok because of your comment. It's good stuff. :D
Try to press an urbanite on what they actually do and what makes city life so great. There are so many things to do in the cities such as... ? What do they actually do? You will never get a satisfying answer. It's go out and eat at a different overpriced meme restaurant, or a different street food, or a pub that serves the same pisswater and overpriced spirits as anywhere else, and a cafe to loiter at with their laptop pretending to work and pretending to be "creative", and there are museums they don't go to, and a drag show....
Urbanites will refuse to admit that the city life isn't for everyone and it's not a personal failing to find this lifestyle to be unappealing. The juice just isn't worth the squeeze and being an aimless consoomer doesn't make you worldly or cultured. This is coming from someone who was born and raised in a major city that I will not name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2WwCzaGo9c
Where did you live in Sweden? I spent over half a year there in Stockholm and had friends in other regions too. I loved Sweden and swedes but I saw a lot of issues. I saw men aimless and whipped, American style soyness. The women were running a lot of things. Tons of immigrants. Housing crisis. Arabs and Muslims ran a lot of stuff too.
Stockholm. One of those neighbourhoods out in Botkyrka everyone knows are no go now, but you can't say it.
We have had cars set on fire by Arab youth gangs under our living room window and such. It was.... fun?
Interesting. I never went out there. I lived in söder in a nice area on the west side of the island. Going to the downtown core or norrmalm was enough for me. The niqabs and Somalians everywhere. The south near Malmö was the worst tho. Sketchy Arabs everywhere.
After we moved away, my friend sent me some notification email from the Swedish police telling people which places are sketchy AF. Our old home was one. :D
Malmö is a meme, with Arabs throwing grenades through windows.
I was outside Malmö visiting friends and it was Arab invasion. Arabs running stores. Arabs stealing cars. Arabs selling stolen shit. Arabs stealing crap. Arabs sitting around drinking and smoking and harassing people. I can only imagine how shitty the core of these neighborhoods are. My Swedish friends generally didn't like the immigrants either.
I started as a libertarian because that was how I could pretend to be smarter than both sides and also I read Atlas Shrugged in high school.
When I was 20ish a friend told me he got his gf pregnant. My immediate expectation was that his next statement would be "so we will be getting married" but instead it was "so I took her to get an abortion". I felt this visceral revulsion and contemp for him that hit me from out of nowhere.
Previously I had argued for "reproductive rights" and thought any objection to abortion was " dumb religious people". Yet when faced with the reality of it all I was thinking was "You utter piece of shit, you murdered your kid because you are too much of a fucking coward to take responsibility for your actions"
That didnt change me politically much but got me thinking about my worldview. Then, years later, World War T started, gamergate happeded, Trump was elected and neutrality no longer became an option.
I didnt understand it but John Doyle articulated what happened. "Anyone who thinks things through to their logical conclusions will become radical"
There is no radicalization.
I stayed put, and the extremists shifted the carpet beneath me. I am a left-leaning lib(ertarian). Well, was. Now what used to be left-leaning is extremist far right. Positions like "people can do what they want, as long as it doesn't impact anyone else" are scary alt-right talking points. Now, it's not enough to not be racist (actual tagline they've used), you have to be anti-racist (or in other words, be racist, but against the right targets). Words like "equality of opportunity" are now considered the purest of evils.
I don't think any of us consider ourselves radicals. But the rest of our countries have radicalized in a left wing direction, and so we seem radical to them by comparison, even though we have largely remained unchanged.
I'm "radical"/extremist as explained by John Doyle
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R7WEa9mHaFk
How can you not be an "extremist" in such abnormal times.
I'm not radicalized, but what woke me up was Gamergate. I was quite leftwing before that.
Fair! I was a sleepy rightist before gamergate as well. Liked Ron Paul. Race realist, but only as an autistic pursuit.
Gamergate was huge. Gamergate was a closer (to me), more internal suppression of free thought and reality.
I had a friend who did just that was given an increasingly hostile runaround. Eventually they got it to him halfway through the semester and it was nothing like what his kids were saying it was. Next year he fully expects to see a fake syllabus on day one.
Some years back I was mostly apolitical but as I would learn I wasn't quite as insusceptible to propaganda as I fancied myself. During a lunch I was arguing a dumb leftist point at a friend and he paused it to ask me "what exactly do you think conservatism is?"
I didn't admit it at the time but my immediate internal reaction was simply "racism".
I basically just dipped out of the conversation at that point because I needed to figure out why the fuck I was having what was essentially a Pavlovian response to a such a completely non-threatening word with a rather open ended definition. Gave me a lot to think about, naturally. Even then I certainly didn't like the idea that I could be so successfully propagandized to.
In my defense, up to that point I never really tasseled with political questions. Some time after, Trump got elected and where my reaction could be described as "amused surprise", the entire world instead lost its collective mind and I began repelling in the opposite direction of their inane screeches.
So, long story short I'm pretty much a neo-Confederate at this point.
Seeing people excited over Gay Marriage (which is an oxymoron in itself), and people being all 'Huur they're not going to teach your child to be gay in school!' about it.
Then I read about men LARPing as women, and people actually defending them for it.
This satanic shit is being shoved down everyone's throat.
CNN
Reasonable
My parents were Republican so growing up I always leaner right. I went through an Ancap phase and while I like the ideals they are pretty unrealistic. I’m a registered Republican because I dislike the Dems even more. I’m a fan of Sowell as well. I like libertarian ideas but tolerance doesn’t seem to go both ways.
In entertainment I remember not understand what was going on when gamergate happened and then the push to have “diversity”. What really confuses me to this day is the obsession with getting women into male hobbies
It was never about uplifting women, it was always about destroying men. Feminists hate the fact that men can be loyal friends, because women really can't.
The ultimate goal of feminists, and all neomarxists, is to dissolve our current civilization to expose the "utopia" they deluded themselves in to believing will spring forth once all of the "problematics" have been destroyed.
Destruction of male camaraderie is part of the process because males who are strongly bonded to each other aren't willing to sacrifice themselves for a "revolution" and are much harder to isolate and destroy should one of the friends become a target of the regime.
Floyd riots. Event 201.
Mainly the 2020 Summer riots pushed me further right. That was around the time I found KIA2 on reddit (funnily enough I think I only checked it out because people were trying to ban it), and went down the rabbit hole up until now.
I suppose I'd say it's the way people react to inconvenient truths. You'll never hear someone say "Oh thank god, America isn't murdering black people!" or "Hooray, gender questioning teenagers will accept themselves without intervention!" - the causes they pretend to champion are just excuses to continue their ruinous behaviour.
I'm not radicalized retarded glowie. My opinions are normal sane ones.
I learned what they thought about Jesus.
I've seen what humans do to their "lessers" and all the excuses they make to justify all kinds of horrors long after they cease to be necessary for survival, and think it's coming time where humans will reap what they have sown. The Greeks were right about hubris, and species-level hubris is going to bite Man's butt hard.
First wave of environmental fascism in the school system from 1988-1994. They never stopped talking about the fucking rainforest. Ever.
Seeing the retardation of the masses, and realizing the 'cattle' meme is incredibly accurate.
Go shill your shit some where else.
kthx
I appreciate the shilling of your shit. Good shit, especially Oblique Triumph
And SDG is a new favorite. Darkness Covers the Snowland, oh dear God
Yeah SDG is absolutely fantastic and still kicking!
When I’m called evil for existing, and certain beliefs that support me and my people are called evil, I adopted them. When you get called a Nazi enough with basic semi conservative values, you start to look into more ideas and worldviews, eventually adopting a lot of those banned views.
In other words, I was pushed into these views which I now embrace.
I am not radical. I was kinda a punk, metal dude in the 90s. Then I was realising that the left was quite hypocritical about some issues, specially feminism and reparations for black people. Then Gamergate happened and it was just the glue to put all the pieces together. So I started to be against political correctness and all the progressiveness zealots. So I still like punk but what I thought it was against the system IS now the system and it is worse than what I used to be against for. The status quo nowadays is completely irrational and to see all the corporations and big money backing all these batshit crazy things just proves the point that "the enemy" is the same, they just changed tactics.
Coercive Control™ being passed.
Some behaviors needs to be controlled.
Trannies and faggots need to be forced to stop publicly expressing their fetish because they can't help but go after children if they aren't. Criminals need to be controlled by denying them the opportunities to commit crimes, even if that means controlling actions that are not in themselves specifically harmful such as loitering or panhandling.
That's being a radical. When society has reached such depths, it's radical to swim for the surface.
The feds and who controls them are the biggest enemy of us all.