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[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 days ago (4 children)

He’s also 26, and was raised in the bubble of wealth and opportunity. For him to even have half of the radical ideas or to have read the Unabomber’s book is growth in of itself.

“What radicalized you?” dear reader, and more pertinently, at what age? Let’s not pretend we all were born as fully actualized and capable philosophical beings that were always right and never had to develop and grow.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Watching a holocaust movie on ABC as a 7 year old, then the next week witnessing a psychopathic cousin torture a starling to death.

Evil quickly moved from an abstract idea to a real and terrifying component of reality.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“What radicalized you?”

unironically it was just having one conversation after class with one of my professors when i was a freshman in college. i don't remember exactly what we talked about, but i vividly remember the feeling of it afterwards, and walking away much more aware of all the things i didn't know. radicalization was a slow and steady process after that, but that conversation was definitely an inflection point

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Similar vibe-check that metastasized over time for me. Having an outright socialist friend who could argue plainly and calmly with conviction, set that mental brushfire that others can and do think radically differently, and they have a different lived experience that defined them and their path.

In seeking to understand a lot of theory of thought and politics, I found the political language and framework for the discontent and disillusionment I knew but couldn’t comprehend.

It also helped that I lived in an unabashed surveillance state, that the public at large actually wanted and defended from criticism or legal change…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Reading the Unibomber's manifesto is only evidence of growth if you roll your eyes halfway through and stop.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Which Luigi did. He liked the main thrust of the argument, but found the methods of the unibomber to be distasteful and lazy.

And I tend to agree.

Attacking the people at the bottom does nothing. Attacking the assholes at the top however... They are the real enemy making the world a worse place, so it just makes sense to target them specifically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, sure, that was the problem I'm talking about. Not the fascism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Idk Drag, he still picked it up. That’s enough outside the normie reading list, 2edgy4u teens tend towards the obvious like Mein Kampf

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

When I realized how politicians fake incompetence to avoid liability. It's not corruption if you fuck Up and break contracts with penalities in the Billions.