I never get tired of 'em. I know we've discussed this before. I know the process is ongoing, not necessarily based on a single event, and depends a lot on your position in society. If discussing the radicalization of others, don't mention any methods unless people specifically told you that certain things radicalized them.

For me, I was a left-liberal for most of my life. Long story short, I ran in a state senate election trying to be as friendly to everyone as possible. The one thing I really wouldn't budge on was universal health care, since I knew from experience that it worked. I lost my election BADLY to a guy who ran on no platform at all, although he had much better name recognition. I worked so hard on that campaign and really was devastated and had to look for answers. Stupid as it sounds, at around that time I found the r/chapotraphouse subreddit and started listening to the podcast. That led to me listening to much better podcasts (like Revleft Radio), reading actual theory, and giving up on the Chapo podcast entirely once Bernie lost the last primary.

I'm always trying to radicalize others but I just usually get nowhere. George Floyd's death plus coronavirus I think resulted in a lot of people reconsidering things, but it seems like many of them have kind of swung back in the other direction now, at least as far as I can tell from watching my friends on Facebook. I've been arguing with my lib dad for months about all of this shit, with the result that he has actually gotten much better at deflecting Marxist points than the average lib lol. Sometimes I can get him to admit that everything is fucked and that Marxism is the only answer, at other times he'll say that we need to make friends with local business owners (some of the worst fucking people in the universe) and not alienate them.

Anyway, if you feel like writing your radicalization story or the radicalization stories of others, I'm happy to read.

    • lvysaur [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Right, or at least "Yamnaya" migration, since we have no evidence of what language they spoke (but a whole shitton of genetic evidence shows a tight association between the two)

      this migration, and the discovery of these fossils were so central to European racial politics it's hard to overemphasize it

      For instance, the redefinition of the word Caucasian? It literally means "of the Caucasus", so why did it get redefined to mean Europeans? Well, COINCIDENTALLY, these Yamnaya (formerly called Pit Grave) fossils were found shortly before this change took place--and they were found right by the Caucasus.

      So it was likely a cope, similar to how Know-Nothings (basically Trumpers of the 1800s) called white anglos "Native Americans". Or how the viking meme COINCIDENTALLY only took off 2 years after Sweden lost Finland in the Finnish War. They wanted to connect Europe to the Caucasus, because it was already known that these "Indoeuropeans" originated much of Europe's culture, and we can't have foreigners originating our culture--something like that.

      Then there's the appropriated word "Aryan", and the equally appropriated swastika, which was such a huge cope that it literally made 60 million europeans kill each other.

      As well as endless LARPing of anglo-germanics as "nordic Aryans", which continues today even though the pigmentation genes of these Yamnaya have been confirmed to be in frequencies that are seen in modern Pakistan/Northern India--in other words they were Brown.