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.