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Written by Warner Crocker on 2025-01-22 at 14:37

“It’s really weird when you come out of a cult. It’s like you look back and you go, what was I thinking?”

‘Trying to rewrite history’: Boise woman guilty in Capitol riot rejects Trump pardon

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Written by Mark T. Tomczak on 2025-01-22 at 15:21

@WarnerCrocker I feel this way about both my Ayn Rand phase and my Paul Graham phase.

My conclusion is "I guess I didn't actually have that much to compare those ideas to."

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Written by Security Writer :verified: :donor: on 2025-01-22 at 17:08

@mark @WarnerCrocker I had a very far-left, maximalist reactionary phase from school until my mid 20s. So far left I’d drift into right wing populism… which is when I actually got deep undercover in that scene trying to work out what on earth they were talking about. It’s a cult, plain as day - same as the fringe left.

I had a poor education and I struggled with traditional academia due to neurodevelopment issues and the attached stigma, but started to learn on my own and read a lot, and eventually went undercover as I say. Came out of it sharpish.

It’s so easy to see how people can be manipulated when they have no better points of reference. Education is everything.

It helped me recognise how much damage the far left has done to real, progressive, socialist politics, as much as the right.

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Written by Mark T. Tomczak on 2025-01-22 at 17:14

@SecurityWriter @WarnerCrocker Amazing. I'm impressed you found a way to move forward with curiosity.

I did not. I went to one meeting of the Rand club at college, had someone say they didn't believe in a subconscious, and nope'd out. I think me now would have been more curious about their lived experience than me then; me then couldn't wrap my head around that idea at all. "You've literally never had your body do something you just didn't tell it to do? I don't understand. At all."

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