The turning point for me where I realized the reality I was told was not it was June 2015 when Donald Trump said the following and I saw the speech:
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
Everyone in my social circles along with the media was saying that Trump is a racist because he called Mexicans rapists and murderers. I was dumbfounded because anyone with a basic understanding of English should realize that's not what he said at all. When I would try to use search engines to find the exact quote, I couldn't. It was all misinformation.
Up to this point, I realized the media was framing things to deceive people and misguide them. I also realized some people were deceived but it was at this moment that something triggered in my mind... Things are way worse than I realized and then from that point onwards I'd say I was truly "redpilled" and went down the rabbit hole hard.
What COVID did for me is realize how difficult it would be to change people's minds. Up until COVID, I thought I could just talk to people and convince them they've got things wrong about their worldview because of misinformation. After COVID, I realized changing people's minds on things is nearly impossible.
That Trump speech was the moment I started taking him seriously as a candidate, because that was the moment I realized the media was just outright lying about him.
The turning point for me where I realized the reality I was told was not it was June 2015 when Donald Trump said the following and I saw the speech:
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
Everyone in my social circles along with the media was saying that Trump is a racist because he called Mexicans rapists and murderers. I was dumbfounded because anyone with a basic understanding of English should realize that's not what he said at all. When I would try to use search engines to find the exact quote, I couldn't. It was all misinformation.
Up to this point, I realized the media was framing things to deceive people and misguide them. I also realized some people were deceived but it was at this moment that something triggered in my mind... Things are way worse than I realized and then from that point onwards I'd say I was truly "redpilled" and went down the rabbit hole hard.
What COVID did for me is realize how difficult it would be to change people's minds. Up until COVID, I thought I could just talk to people and convince them they've got things wrong about their worldview because of misinformation. After COVID, I realized changing people's minds on things is nearly impossible.
That Trump speech was the moment I started taking him seriously as a candidate, because that was the moment I realized the media was just outright lying about him.