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I mean, I hear you.
I think a lot of that comes from the growing miasma of loneliness and social antipathy. A lot of people are bored, and resentful, and they feel like their lives suck, and there's nothing to do but hop on discord, and they're 26 and they don't have a house yet; and as soon as you patch them up a bit, suddenly they lose interest in being incels.
You ever been kind of irritable, maybe while on the job, and like an hour later, after the lunch rush, you realize you were just hungry? All of that irritation just melts away. I don't think that these things are different. You have to get to the emotional core of what's actually bothering people.
Anyway, I've done like a metric fuckton of talking here. I love my own voice, but I'm kind of sick of it now.
I am curious, though: you said you pulled yourself out of the alt-right pipeline, what do you feel it was that saved you?
The honest awnser is I do not know. It kinda just happened. One day I just caught myself watching youtubers and reading things that before I would just shun for being too woke (this was before the term became popular back when feminist were the big boogyman) for a lack of a better term.
Maybe it was just a matter of growing up because the depression and loneliness (apparently I am also autistic but I kinda doubt the diagnosis) went away much later.
It could be growing up. Well, I'm glad you're with us now.
I don't think I was ever that deep in it, but my dad did raise me as a conservative "centrist." I distinctly remember catching sight of an XKCD about how people treat global warming as a political issue instead of, you know, a science one. And that was an epiphany moment for me. I was like "He's right. The fuck are we arguing about this for?"
I would say I went from pretty right wing to center left. My current stance is more or less you should be able to earn millions (not billions that is just insane, no single person should have that kind of power) but everyone should have the same opportunities and rights.
Yeah, with science it is a similar situation because especially scientific literature gets so complex that most people do not understand it or get bored reading it and just like with politics lived experience can be very different from what scientist are telling you.