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.
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