For me it was late 2010 while i was in college. But the story starts in high school with my good friend's older brother. My friends older brother used to tell us that 9/11 was an inside job. He even got us to go to school with shirts saying it. Illuminati this, illuminati that. That's when I was first introduced to the truth. But I didn't fully believe it.
Until two years after. I was listening to Tupac and started listening to Killuminati. Something clicked. It made it real. Like Tupac is event saying this shit. Then I went down the rabbit hole.
I haven't looked back since.
But it made me realize that people need to wake up by themselves. My friends bro talking about truth wasn't enough by itself. Though he planted the seed. The truth has to grow from within.
Podesta emails. Always voted Republican but when the emails were released I realized both sides of the aisle were crap and it was a joke. Watching the media cover pizzagate and gaslight everyone into believing there was no evidence and everything was debunked was the final brick into place that it was all just a smoke and mirror show to cover up the elite’s crimes.
I don't even remember how it happened but somehow I fell down the pizzagate rabbit hole and haven't been the same since. Prior to that I thought of government corruption in terms of money matters, mostly. I knew about things like Ruby Ridge but could still rationalize in a way "things got out of hand, people made bad decisions" and so on. Pizzagate was so much more than suspicions over a pizza place, it involved everything from child trafficking in other countries to revelations about CPS that gave me the worst insomnia of my life I couldn't stop thinking about it and feeling upset.
2008 when that fuck was elected. I was standing in line abs these girls next to me said “ I don’t know about this election but I know I must vote for Obama”
I also explored a lot of /x/ and /pol/ in my 20s
Hillary. I knew something was wrong as soon as they screwed Bernie.
Dreamers act. I lived in Los Angeles and I learned illegals could get college for free.
I’m in my mid-50’s and have always voted Republican. Held my nose for 8 years of the Kenyan, but I was busy running a business and raising a kid.
My husband started following Q and began talking about the Deep State and the shadow government. I kept threatening to make him a tin foil hat and to leave me out of it until HRC was in handcuffs.
I had seen friends mentioning the Fall of Cabal video series. I started watching it in August or September. My husband came home and I said “you’ve got to watch this!” We sat down that night. He knew all about the info presented. Do I think the videos have a bit of fantasy in it? Probably yes. But it opened my eyes regarding the Elite and their thirst to own it all. I began researching stuff on my own, while continually asking my husband to help me understand who’s who among the players.
Another patriot pointed me here right before the election. I haven’t missed a day since, and have watched more documentaries and youtubers than we even knew existed.
We’re in....DEEP. But still have Patriot friends that have no clue about what’s going on. They think it’s over.
Watching Saddam's attack helos scorching the marsh arabs shortly after the "cease fire". We could have shot them all down, but were told to hold our fire.
1000s murdered while we flew around with our peckers in our hands. Sucks having 550 rounds of 20mm HEI/API, 6 air to air missiles at your disposal and denied engagement.
edit to add: Waco. the branch dividians might have been crazy, but to kill women and children like that. No bueno.
fuck the bushes, fuck the clintons, fuck obama, fuck them all.
that was my red pill moment and I've never looked back.
great question and im interested in seeing other responses.
for me, a confluence of things. Background: I am a small business owner and Main St. capitalist. child of the 80s. Loved Reagan. saw what NAFTA (aka globalism) did for Detroit and MW. saw what consumerism/materialism did to middle class america.
Trump was an American icon & saw the way media changed after he announced.
Also read the Podesta emails. Ordinary Americans are sorted like Skittles, they (pols and the universe of people orbiting them) think less than nothing of the American people.
I always thought political correctness was bizarre but that was because I was only really first exposed to it at college and I was too old to be brainwashed that way.
Then Project Veritas and Wikileaks released a whole bunch of documents during the 2016 election that made me question what was going on behind the scenes in politics.
I was born with a red pill in my mouth. I stopped trusting my teachers when I was in 5th grade and I knew what we were being taught was a dangerous lie. It hurt me deeply. I stopped trusting the newspapers a few months latter when I became a paperboy. I used to read the paper every day. This was in 1971.
the matrix movie 1999