What shaped your political beliefs? -

[ForgedBlades]

Curious to hear how you got to where you are, no matter where on the spectrum you lie.

It sounds lame, but I shifted from an apolitical blob to republican when a conservative talk station set up shop in my town and I began listening to Hannity and Levin. This was when I had just started high school, so I was pretty impressionable, but I went on to read stuff like Locke and the Federalist Papers and it solidified everything for me. I went through a libertarian phase for a while, but started to morph into a traditional conservative once the left started playing the identity politics and white privilege cards.

You guys?

 

[Otis Boi]

My parents where filthy race mixers so i was lucky enough to get shit from most races especially from blacks sometimes even from my own family. It's what made me loath anything dealing with racial politics because everyone can be equal assholeish about a something so worthless they have no control of. It's why i was never a liberal and wont ever support the Far right to me they are the same shit.


For a long time i was a republican they have a lot of point i agree with on paper especially economically and Governance wise. I was never a big fan of them being the "Christian Party" because i don't Agree with Christian on social issues. Its why i trend to Libertrainism honestly I just want people to be able to live happy lives the way they see fit with in reason.

 

[Dick Pooman]

I am thankful to have a family who never outwardly pushed me in either direction politically, but I used to listen to Bob Grant along with my grandpa when I would hang out with him in his workshop. I remember laughing so hard at the terrible shit he used to say about anything on the left. It really influenced me going forward.

I really recommend looking up Bob Grant best-ofs on YouTube. It's a great way to get a feel for pre 9/11 politics, especially in NYC. He has said some far-out shit that would get him fired in a fucking instant today.

 

[GreenJacket]

My formative years were riddled with indoctrination and propaganda. I grew to resent the liberal bias that had been forced on me.

 

[somerandomfurryfag]

My biology teacher was a possessed with Christianity, so after looking how retarded far conservative people can be i kinda shifted from centrist retard to a bit liberal.

 

[Rand /pol/]

The Bible

 

[Snuckening]

I read 'Seige' by James Mason because I saw a Satanist on /pol/ embroided it on a throw pillow.

 

[Woke Blue Muttlema]

Reality hit me like a bitch.
I am the product of race mixing and a failed abortion so I lacked an identity for far too long. I got bullied like hell for most of my life so I became really prejudiced against most people (red phase). My parents showed me the worth of hard work and that merits come first always so I despised being treated differently from others (kinda hard where I grew up). I was smart to I jumped some years and end up in a school where I found out about oppression points.
Run with it until I made a friend that through facts and logic transformed me into a shitlord libertarian-esque diversity quota. At the end this mate of mine actually end up thinking I was Alt Right or some shit for how redpilled I was.
Today Im a cynic, as apolitical as I can.

 

[Clop]

I grew up being a lefty atheist feminist wanker, pretty much every stereotype of a complete narcissistic cunt applied. During my adulthood an old friend convinced me with good and calm arguments that feminism was cancer and around the same time I met my to-be bestie who could joke about anything without it being the end of civilization as we know it, which made me loosen up from the anal indoctrination crap.

I'm still very much liberal but I sure as fuck see the bright side in not having everything be gov-regulated. Leftie politics are just a meme to me now, handled by people who just see enemies instead of humans. I may agree with some of their ideas but I sure as hell am not voting for them anymore.

 

[OB 946]

Started as a Bolshevist revolutionary in high school because public school is basically leftist indoc. I then got a job and became a Libertarian because taxes are total fucking bullshit.

 

[Bob Page]

Around the time I hit high school, I was a centrist libertarian, beliving that people can reasonably forge their own destiny. But, as I had discussions with my father on politics on a regular basis and when political correctness reared its fugly mug, I became a more conservative republican.

 

[wylfım]

Filthy white male who grew up in strongly Christian-conservative household, that was honestly more of a cult than anything else. Was basically a clone of my parents from 5th grade to highschool, where my internet career really kicked off. A few years of 4chan and shitty youtube videos dragged me further right, basically where I am right now. Talking to people and just thinking about stuff (notable mention to Ayn Rand and Larry Sharpe) gave me a more nuanced view beyond the classical American Conservative "right good left bad", and so parents give me shit endlessly for not agreeing with them on a lot of issues. Not even necessarily that I don't agree, just that I dont hold to their cult mentality that the world is black and white.
Am currently an idealistic libertarian but a realistic class-based totalitarian/true meritocracy/aristocracy (holy shit people are idiots, I don't trust the average person to make decisions that are in their benefit, thanks kiwi farms and life experience), socially and economically very far right (around the point where it starts blending over and looking the same as far-left, thanks 4chan you absolute cesspool of degeneracy). Support things like abortion and illegal immigration, but for ideologically opposite reasons as the left. Can clarify if anyone's interested, though I don't see why anyone would care about the political leanings of an exceptional individual. So yeah, thats me politically.

tl;dr the internet is shit and internet politics are garbage

 

[Zorin OS Is Awesome]

I briefly moved to a large city in Arkansas, (I'm from a TINY town in Pennsylvania.) and I had to deal with blacks, trannies, mexicans, and all kinds of minority bullshit in that year of high school. Needless to say, I'm now a full-blown Fascist.

 

[It's HK-47]

Happened on election night, odd as that might sound. I was one mother-fucker of a Left-leaning Democrat who was full bore into the Bernie camp from square one and I couldn't have even explained why at the time if someone pressed me on it, but I hated Donald Trump. The media spat fire about it all the time, all my friends spat fire about it, I just took it in stride that they all knew what they were talking about and hopped on the bandwagon even though I didn't know the first thing about him. The orange man was just bad.

I laughed during every debate and tuned in religiously just to see him make an ass of himself, and I cheered Bernie Sanders on right to the bitter end, even though I didn't know a damn thing about any of his policies. Again: Friends all said it, media said it, so the Socialist must be good. I didn't even remotely question any of it, not for an instant, and even once he was shoved off to the wayside, not a single bone in my body believed Trump would win. I didn't like Hillary at all, but I knew we'd have to buckle in and get ready for that presidency. Besides, the last Clinton Administration wasn't so bad, right? That's what they all told us.

It wasn't until right there on election night that I'd sat there with one of my oldest friends: This nice, little old lady who'd never hurt a fly and spent all of her life dedicated to saving animals and self-publishing children's books. She never said a word about politics the entire election cycle, never voiced any sort of opinion, never joined any discussions, but I'll never forget sitting there laughing at the screen as I waited to watch Trump "lose" the election one state at a time. She turned to the TV with a smile and just said, "I hope Trump wins."

The kindest person I'll ever meet in my entire life just matter-of-factly, in the sweetest, old-lady voice you can imagine, belted that right out and absolutely floored me. I had no ability to reconcile that. It didn't make any sense to me, but I was desperate to know why someone that kind-hearted was saddling up with someone who's supposedly such a racist pig. And she told me. She spent the whole night explaining her position, Trump's position, and why damned near everything the media's been feeding me was just an absolute lie.

I don't even remember saying anything, I just listened to her the entire night, and by the time the last states started to flip Red, I was begging for a Trump presidency. I stopped watching television, I stopped watching movies, my entire hobby for the vast majority of November of 2016 all the way through 2017 was spent just trying to figure out what the Hell else I'd been taking as an "absolute fact" for all of this time. I read every book I could think to find, tore through every news outlet and Twitter account and documentary I could get my hands on, and went through hundreds of thousands of government documents just to try and make sense of it all and figure out who was full of shit and who actually knew what they were talking about.

I probably still don't know a goddamned thing, but my political views have shifted violently compared to what they were two years ago, and I can't even begin to fathom how they'd ever revert back, again.

I lost a lot of friends along the way for going against the "Group Think"--just about all of them, actually--but I'm still holding out hope that maybe one of these days they'll have the same sort of experience I did. Either way, short of picking up a Soviet flag and marching down to Starbucks with a Communist Manifesto, I was just about the most (pre-Social Justice) Left-leaning Democrat you were ever likely to meet, but now I'll be voting Republican for the rest of my life because I am pissed that I was lied to for so long.

 

[The Shadow]

I grew up in California. The restrictive policies, corrupt politicians and the hypocrisy of the left wing establishment there drove me pretty hard towards right-libertarianism.

I've mellowed a bit since getting out, but that played a big part in it.

 

[The Man From G.R.I.D.S.]

Very long.

Spoiler

I went from pasty faced skinnyfat anarcho commie shitlib to Trump-voting bigoted pro-minority-vote-suppression anti-egalitarian shitlord (mind my pronouns) solely because of my gay fine arts major 1/4 black roommate.

I had to listen to this nigger faggot bitch about oppression while he was given a full ride scholarship to study mathematics. He did three years and when his grades dropped due to all night chemsex sessions he switched to fine arts (theatre major, dance minor).

I can't rightly call him a nigger because he's whiter than most mexicans. He refuses to date (read: have nsa buttsex on my goddamn couch) anything but blonde white fags. Yet he still bitches about white people oppressing him when he never had to work the entire 6 years in university, all thanks to donations and taxes paid overwhelmingly by whitey.

The worst part for me was when I found out that he was switching majors and told him - using arguments that compared salaries of stage actors and wall street math quants - he got pissy and whined about how I was oppressing him to all his friends (if people so petty can be said to have them). Then I had to deal with stares, lip smacking negroes, and all manner of passive-aggressive bullshit until I snapped. I stopped caring, stopped talking, and spent time on /pol/ until I found The Right Stuff around the time Mike Brown got limited.

I had to deal with:
1. Sketchy faggots that tried to roofy me at least once, which failed because I don't drink alcohol, I weigh 30 pounds more than I appear (day labor and hitch-hiking make you deceptively tough), and I eat fiber rich foods which slow digestion. I was already in my room for 30 minutes with my door locked before the room started spinning and I got groggy.
2. Random faggots knocking on my door late at night and asking if I'm awake/ok... all night long.
3. Constant unwanted hands on contact from all the fags, with impromptu struggle sessions when I lost my temper.
4. The retinue of insane dangerhair sluts that followed these faggots around.
5. Listening to a bunch of faggots, dykes, sluts, and spoiled upper middle class queefs alternately bitch about oppression and mock the poor. These kids had never gone more than 12 hours without a meal, while I was raised by a bipolar bitch that blew my wuss dads va disability on clothes and she tossed my ass out when I turned 18. I have been homeless for almost 5 of the last 11 years of my life, not counting time spent hitch-hiking. I've gone days without food (honestly pretty easy after the first day, provided you have enough fat and you stay hydrated), I slept outside in every climate, and I didn't even know what food stamps were until 4 years ago. 10% of my high school graduating class is dead or in prison due to drugs, and these scumbags would dress up for halloween as dishabille heroin junkies.
6. Mannish "transmale" dykes bullying, sexually harassing, and in one case raping the more easily pushed around Christian girls that just wanted to be elementary school teachers. You should have seen the look of elation on this freaks face when she got a shy dorky chick to call her parents, come out as trans, and then let the dykes berate them via speakerphone for being Christian bigots.
7. Having to lock up all my food and utencils to ensure no one touched it with jizz/shit/sex-sweat on their hands.
8. Not being able to touch anything outside of my room for the same reason. Includes disinfecting the toilet seat and shower before I used it, and taking off my shes immediately after entering my room.
9. The utter inanity and pettiness of late millenials. They had no significant life experiences, but by golly they know how to act like childless middle aged shrews the instant you show genuine emotions.

I could deal with all that stuff, but the passive aggro shit always drives me up a wall.

I stayed at TRS until they purity spiraled into self-parody and self-destruction. From there I went to My Posting Career where I made 1 excellent post for every 400 bad ones over several accounts (all banned - don't worry none of my actual dox are there or anywhere, I mix lies in with the truth in all powerlevel posts). I eventually mellowed out after I absorbed the lessons of MPC and I'm now just a American nationalist troll instead of a non-ironic odin worshipping nazi.

I live in a white Ford Ranger (license plate W19R1L) I decked out with a topper, sleeping compartment, cooking gear, critter proof food storage, and a very acceptable dachshhund named Merle. When I'm not shitposting I do freelance android development to pay off my student loans. Merle and I go to dog parks where he helps me pick up women, and I chat with women while he perpetuates canine dog park rape culture.

 

[ES 148]

My political beliefs are still forming but the longer I stay on KF the further left I veer

 

[cecograph]

Debilitating pessimism directed at the entirety of existence. I blame being exposed to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at primary school.

 

[Rumpled Foreskin]

Very long.

Spoiler

I went from pasty faced skinnyfat anarcho commie shitlib to Trump-voting bigoted pro-minority-vote-suppression anti-egalitarian shitlord (mind my pronouns) solely because of my gay fine arts major 1/4 black roommate.

I had to listen to this nigger faggot bitch about oppression while he was given a full ride scholarship to study mathematics. He did three years and when his grades dropped due to all night chemsex sessions he switched to fine arts (theatre major, dance minor).

I can't rightly call him a nigger because he's whiter than most mexicans. He refuses to date (read: have nsa buttsex on my goddamn couch) anything but blonde white fags. Yet he still bitches about white people oppressing him when he never had to work the entire 6 years in university, all thanks to donations and taxes paid overwhelmingly by whitey.

The worst part for me was when I found out that he was switching majors and told him - using arguments that compared salaries of stage actors and wall street math quants - he got pissy and whined about how I was oppressing him to all his friends (if people so petty can be said to have them). Then I had to deal with stares, lip smacking negroes, and all manner of passive-aggressive bullshit until I snapped. I stopped caring, stopped talking, and spent time on /pol/ until I found The Right Stuff around the time Mike Brown got limited.

I had to deal with:
1. Sketchy faggots that tried to roofy me at least once, which failed because I don't drink alcohol, I weigh 30 pounds more than I appear (day labor and hitch-hiking make you deceptively tough), and I eat fiber rich foods which slow digestion. I was already in my room for 30 minutes with my door locked before the room started spinning and I got groggy.
2. Random faggots knocking on my door late at night and asking if I'm awake/ok... all night long.
3. Constant unwanted hands on contact from all the fags, with impromptu struggle sessions when I lost my temper.
4. The retinue of insane dangerhair sluts that followed these faggots around.
5. Listening to a bunch of faggots, dykes, sluts, and spoiled upper middle class queefs alternately bitch about oppression and mock the poor. These kids had never gone more than 12 hours without a meal, while I was raised by a bipolar bitch that blew my wuss dads va disability on clothes and she tossed my ass out when I turned 18. I have been homeless for almost 5 of the last 11 years of my life, not counting time spent hitch-hiking. I've gone days without food (honestly pretty easy after the first day, provided you have enough fat and you stay hydrated), I slept outside in every climate, and I didn't even know what food stamps were until 4 years ago. 10% of my high school graduating class is dead or in prison due to drugs, and these scumbags would dress up for halloween as dishabille heroin junkies.
6. Mannish "transmale" dykes bullying, sexually harassing, and in one case raping the more easily pushed around Christian girls that just wanted to be elementary school teachers. You should have seen the look of elation on this freaks face when she got a shy dorky chick to call her parents, come out as trans, and then let the dykes berate them via speakerphone for being Christian bigots.
7. Having to lock up all my food and utencils to ensure no one touched it with jizz/shit/sex-sweat on their hands.
8. Not being able to touch anything outside of my room for the same reason. Includes disinfecting the toilet seat and shower before I used it, and taking off my shes immediately after entering my room.
9. The utter inanity and pettiness of late millenials. They had no significant life experiences, but by golly they know how to act like childless middle aged shrews the instant you show genuine emotions.

I could deal with all that stuff, but the passive aggro shit always drives me up a wall.

I stayed at TRS until they purity spiraled into self-parody and self-destruction. From there I went to My Posting Career where I made 1 excellent post for every 400 bad ones over several accounts (all banned - don't worry none of my actual dox are there or anywhere, I mix lies in with the truth in all powerlevel posts). I eventually mellowed out after I absorbed the lessons of MPC and I'm now just a American nationalist troll instead of a non-ironic odin worshipping nazi.

I live in a white Ford Ranger (license plate W19R1L) I decked out with a topper, sleeping compartment, cooking gear, critter proof food storage, and a very acceptable dachshhund named Merle. When I'm not shitposting I do freelance android development to pay off my student loans. Merle and I go to dog parks where he helps me pick up women, and I chat with women while he perpetuates canine dog park rape culture.

you were roommates with Gazi Kodzo ?

 

[The Man From G.R.I.D.S.]

you were roommates with Gazi Kodzo ?

No. This particular fag is actually smart enough to get through three years of a math major, he's just high on chemsex and asspats. He'll probably go back to school in his 30s - assuming he's doesn't die of grids - and get a phd in math when he matures a bit and needs the money. He is honestly smarter than I am (at least with math, acting, and dance) and kind once you drag him away from the rats nests he inhabits. He could do anything but he wants to be a fag, what can you do?