Like a moment that seemed insignificant and unimportant at the time, but looking back was in fact a pivotal moment in pushing you towards radicalization.
For me probably being introduced to Guitar Hero at my friend's house in like summer 2007. At the time it was just another day, but looking back I ended up falling in love with those games, I ended up being introduced to The Ramones and even more importantly the Dead Kennedys through them, which caused me to get into punk music and resulted in me adopting very critical attitudes towards larger American society, attitudes which later grew into anarchism and then Marxism
In I think 10th grade we had an assignment to create a fictional country. I had this weird interest in Fidel Castro at the time because it seemed edgy or something maybe? Idk I grew up in the rural South and went to a private Christian school.
So anyway, I ended up researching the fuck out of Cuba (this was like 1999) and while I still didn't take the project very seriously, it turned me on to the idea that there could be other approaches to society. So my fake country was essentially Cuba with different names. I didn't really figure it out at that point, I joined the fucking army like 2 years later.