Ideology requires a constant expenditure of "intellectual horsepower" to maintain; the truth simply is.
Those who would lie to themselves have an enemy within.
**How I Became Radicalized in 2020**
It didn’t start with rage. It started with a slow, sickening realization that the people running the institutions I once trusted had stopped pretending.
I watched 2016 happen. Trump won, and immediately the machinery kicked into gear: Russiagate. Not cautious skepticism or normal opposition, but a full-spectrum campaign to declare the election itself illegitimate. Media, intel leaks, anonymous sources pushing a dossier everyone with eyes could smell was garbage. The message was clear — the wrong man had won, so the rules no longer applied. Democracy was fine as long as the right people held power.
I still gave the system the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was just partisan fever. Then 2020 arrived and the mask came off completely.
First came the procedural weirdness. Mail-in rules rewritten on the fly in key states, often without legislatures. Drop boxes, signature “leniency,” observers kept at distances or blocked from meaningful access. Late-night ballot dumps that looked engineered. Statistical oddities piled up. When people raised questions, the response wasn’t “let’s audit and show the work.” It was immediate shutdown: “baseless,” “conspiracy theory,” “threat to democracy.”
Then the Hunter Biden laptop story dropped in October. Raw evidence of influence-peddling tied straight to the family. Twitter locked the New York Post’s account. Facebook throttled distribution. Fifty intelligence officials called it Russian disinformation. The censorship machine had been prepped and primed. A huge chunk of voters said afterward they would have changed their minds if they’d seen the story unfiltered. That wasn’t moderation. That was information warfare to protect the preferred outcome.
January 6 turned chaotic. A protest over certification became a breach. The Guard response dragged for hours despite urgent requests. Yet two weeks later, for Biden’s inauguration, Washington DC became a fortress: 25,000 National Guard troops — triple the normal number — razor wire, seven-foot fencing, streets blocked, troops patrolling neighborhoods, the National Mall shut down. The visuals weren’t about peaceful transfer. They looked like raw power securing what had been taken. After months of “mostly peaceful” riots with far less sustained federal crackdown, the contrast was impossible to ignore.
This wasn’t incompetence or overcaution. It was the logical endpoint of the mindset that took root in 2016: elites and their allied institutions believe they are the only legitimate stewards of power. When voters deliver the wrong result, the response is not acceptance followed by normal opposition. It is narrative control, information suppression, lawfare, and eventually military optics to enforce the outcome.
2020 radicalized me because I saw the inversion in real time. The same voices screaming “threat to democracy” spent years refusing to accept democratic results when they went against them. They treated half the country as domestic threats requiring containment rather than citizens whose consent still mattered. Democracy, in their hands, became conditional — sacred only when it delivered the approved winners.
What I witnessed wasn’t a defense of norms. It was the steady replacement of old American skepticism toward concentrated power with something colder: the quiet arrogance of people who think they alone know what’s best and will use every tool — from censorship to razor wire — to protect their claim on legitimacy.
Once you see it clearly, you can’t unsee it. That’s how 2020 changed me. Not into a partisan, but into someone who no longer trusts the official story by default. The fortress around Biden’s inauguration was the final visual proof: they weren’t protecting democracy. They were protecting what they had taken with raw power. And they expected the rest of us to applaud the silence.
No your thinking of the plantation owners. The political party brainwashing their identity groups to cobble together a constituency hacking fear, envy, and tribalism while promising scraps to the perpetually aggrieved. Keeping them that way to enrich themselves.
Communism - A con to enrich the mediocre in the name of the poor.
@photoframd@bennyjohnson Nobody would mistake him for a Democrat today. The only political party in the history of the world organized and animated by the hatred of its country.
Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so. Now... We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they're going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning.
@PantsAndTank@libsoftiktok The left is insufferable. They weaponize everything against their enemies while giving license to their own side to do the same thing. All while being so self-righteous and sanctimonious. It's what makes them so repulsive and insufferable.
@SilverDudeMan@libsoftiktok Another soulless left wing Zombie Hoax.
He made his only known political donation ($15 via ActBlue) to the Progressive Turnout Project (a left-wing/Democratic voter turnout group) on Biden’s inauguration day in 2021, when he was 17.
Black people are brainwashed to hate white people. Stay the fuck away from black people. Its done for politics, it keeps blacks on the Democrat plantation.
Caitlin should heed that advice.
The country was just fine not watching the black lesbian basketball league for decades. We'll just go back to ignoring it again. They would be much happier. They were never about turning a profit. They existed off the scraps of the NBA sustained mostly to promote an agenda and were quite happy to travel the country in their self sustained circle jerk of perverts.
Woman: An adult human female.
This definition has served humanity well for millennia. It is rooted in objective biological reality—the sex that produces large gametes (ova), is organized for gestation, and develops the corresponding anatomy and physiology.
Sex is binary and immutable. Gender dysphoria is a mutable mental health condition, not a substitute for biological sex. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe they are.
As the Supreme Court has recognized in contexts like Heller v. Doe, classifications based on mental conditions receive only rational basis review—not the heightened scrutiny reserved for immutable characteristics like biological sex.
Redefining "woman" around feelings erodes women's rights, fairness in sports and spaces, and simple truth.
Adult human female isn't complicated—it's accurate.
What part of basic biology are we pretending to forget?
Woman: An adult human female.
This definition has served humanity well for millennia. It is rooted in objective biological reality—the sex that produces large gametes (ova), is organized for gestation, and develops the corresponding anatomy and physiology.
Sex is binary and immutable. Gender dysphoria is a mutable mental health condition, not a substitute for biological sex. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe they are.
As the Supreme Court has recognized in contexts like Heller v. Doe, classifications based on mental conditions receive only rational basis review—not the heightened scrutiny reserved for immutable characteristics like biological sex.
Redefining "woman" around feelings erodes women's rights, fairness in sports and spaces, and simple truth.
Adult human female isn't complicated—it's accurate.
What part of basic biology are we pretending to forget?
Woman: An adult human female.
This definition has served humanity well for millennia. It is rooted in objective biological reality—the sex that produces large gametes (ova), is organized for gestation, and develops the corresponding anatomy and physiology.
Sex is binary and immutable. Gender dysphoria is a mutable mental health condition, not a substitute for biological sex. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe they are.
As the Supreme Court has recognized in contexts like Heller v. Doe, classifications based on mental conditions receive only rational basis review—not the heightened scrutiny reserved for immutable characteristics like biological sex.
Redefining "woman" around feelings erodes women's rights, fairness in sports and spaces, and simple truth.
Adult human female isn't complicated—it's accurate.
What part of basic biology are we pretending to forget?