Thread by @PaKruta

People like me don't get radicalized by going to Parler. I'm not on it and I don't want to be. I think they're peopled with loons.

What makes people like me get radicalized? 1/

It's the day to day insult to my intelligence. Telling me that I'm not seeing what I'm seeing. Telling me that Bret Kavanaugh was a rapist. Telling me that Amy Coney Barrett is a right wing Handmaid's Tale bringing psycho. 2/

I get radicalized when they tell me "It's only the bad people" when the bad people are always being defined with broader and broader brush strokes. 3/

I start to crack when they use the "gay wedding cake" example when they would ABSOLUTELY have destroyed him if they could. When they cynically point to his court victory as a reason to restrict access to information. 4/

They radicalized me when they said "15 days to slow the spread" and let it be the rule for an entire year with still no end in sight. 5/

They radicalized me when they said Trump was the worst since Romney was the worst since McCain was the worst since Bush was the worst since Reagan was the worst since Nixon and they're all the worst since Hitler. 6/

They radicalized me when they said Romney was a fool to call Russia our greatest Geopolitical foe and then went on to name them as just that when it was politically expedient. 7/

They radicalized me by telling me I was evil for wanting EVERYONE to be left the hell alone. 8/

And finally, they radicalized me by lumping me in with actual radicals.
I'm NOT a radical. They just want me to think I am. /end