My Views In 2016 And Now

MAGAtard 2016 vs Right Wing Progressive

This is not intended to recount my political journey for that is a story that is perhaps better reserved for another time—but rather to offer a glimpse into my state of mind in 2016 and how it contrasts with the present, alongside an outline of my guiding principles and aspirations.

But first I’d like to brag that I was responsible for creating that meme which then went viral way back in 2023 and so it is only reasonable for a more in depth part two.

Spoiler alert: While some of my fundamental political instincts have remained consistent, the form and expression of my politics have evolved significantly between 2016 and today. Allow me to elaborate:

My Political Views in 2016

When Trump announced that he was running for president I remember dismissing him as a clownish buffoon and became his enthusiastic supporter of only in January of 2016. This I can largely explain by my choice of consuming of right wing media which contrasted from previous mainstream liberal media such as TYT that I have consumed before. The political right has spoken to many cultural and social issues I cared about, whereas the liberal media did not speak up against anti-White sentiment, double standards in politics and the takeover of our culture and moral system by the left. This is what I saw in daily life Canada, and it was sad that no one at that point talked about it on a political level, as engaging in White identity politics was tantamount to political suicide so I was happy to see someone like Lauren Southern and others discussing it alongside the excesses of feminism and other leftist cultural developments.

You can argue that my political opinions on Trump were formed due to environmental influences I was exposed as opposed to my own considerations. This is probably true. I remember fighting in school on politics and being the only person supporting Trump. My school was highly racially diverse, which means it had very little White people present and so most of the arguments revolved around how Trump was slandered by the media and he in fact was not a racist, which is similar to the rightoid, Trump obsessed #walkaway campaign that also gained ground around that era.

The political conversations I had with people revolved solely around contemporary and bipartisan issues as opposed to forming a unified coherent moral, epistemic and social framework of analyzing the world, not focused on one particular issue. Most people never progress beyond this stage. Destiny, now 35, remains a partisan commentator focused solely on trending political topics, rather than developing a comprehensive Rawlsian vision of the world—one that could shape future developments toward greater optimization.

That being said, this is what I have done in public. In private things were slightly different. periodically I was listening to Richard Spencer and being at awe at how much smarter and unpartisan his ideas were in relation to the dominant conservative hivemind as well as how the contemporary framework was not able to successfully deal with issues raised by Mr. Spencer. Richard Spencer

That being said, I have never taken the nazi pill, supported authoritarian politics and nor did I spend time on /pol and I learned about Jared Taylor’s existence only a year later. Funny enough, my consumption of White Identitarian content remained relatively little and I felt a sense of guilt every time I have indulged in it. Most of the people I watched on YouTube were shoeonhead, Lauren Southern, Sargon of Akkad, The Amazing Atheist and people from the same crew. Basic anti-SJW content.

People like to attach resentment to people supporting Trump, whereas in my experience, while I was justly angered about the media and the liberal cultural landscape, I supported Trump out of a belief that he will culturally shake things up in such a way that the political landscape will eventually move to a place in which more radical ideas begin to take root. Did I hate feminism and White replacement? Of course, but I have never dreamed about the incel revolution or any of other nonsense which shitlibs assume people who disagree with them do. Perhaps that is because of my innate sentiment, or because I was not exposed to Twitter, 4chan and super-dissident rightist content. In either case, I was not actively seeking it, though I do remember looking into Fascism, certain conspiracy theories and incel ideology and not finding them empirically convincing. The closest thing I got to that was Trump mania which quickly faded the next year.

If I were to paint a picture of my views in 2016 it was a bipolar fight of two versions of myself. A Liberal-Conservative on one hand, and a White racial nationalist on the other. These two things I imagined were at conflict with each other and so I have taken upon the former on public and the latter sometimes in private. Why sometimes? I often debated myself on the ethics of my position and in 2016 I was not that big on the crime and IQ stuff too. I imagined that a majority of racial IQ and violence gap can be explained by differences in education, culture, poverty, bad parenting and other environmental influences. I also believed that non-Whites did not have a large innate predisposition towards in-group preference and once the issues of racism were dealt with, we could peacefully live together. My actual red-pilling on Biorealism occurred only years later.

Furthermore, even in 2016 without reading Hegel, Peter Singer and Rawls I have intuitively believed that according to most available evidence the left is on the proper trajectory of delivering history and things like in-group bias, religion, gender inequality and homophobia will eventually be completely eliminated and so it was better to be on the right rather than the wrong side of history. The historical record showed that the cultural right has consistently lost every conceivable cultural battle, with history invariably leaning left. To avoid the sense of being swept away by the prevailing tide in the future, I hesitated to fully embrace my true beliefs on these matters, ironically allowing myself to drift with the currents of the time instead of being carried away later. I still maintained these views until late 2020 and early 2021 as evidenced by some of my YouTube videos.

The liberal position was simply far more socially advantageous. It was highly popular for one, and second it was associated with progress itself. Globalization, political rights, autonomy, property rights, welfare state, equal moral and legal treatment and other developments in variety of niche constructions that a liberal framework allowed truly seemed superior to any alternatives and so whenever a White Identitarian position was compared to liberalism, it appeared like a regressive phenomenon for it went against the logic of globalization, social rights and morality itself.

Besides, Conservative buffoons like Gavin McInnes, Alex Jones and Steven Crowder did not install in me any sense of confidence for the Conservative movement because most of them, besides acting like chimps also believed in demonstrably false things like soy being bad (btw my name UBERSOY is the ironyzation of this phenomenon) and conspiracy theories, some of which were highly popular among most rightoids such as climate change denial. Funny enough, I probably shared at least a third of the false conceptions of reality which have proliferated among rightoid circles. As a result of their influence, I embraced the position that climate change did not constitute a problem to worry about, because the planet was warmer 100,000 years ago and I did not believe that CO2 has contributed as much to the planet warming as it was popularly understood and only in 2019 did I embrace the scientific conception of it after consoooming hbomberguy’s video on the topic that placed me on a journey to learning about the basics of ecology. The most ridiculous thing I remember half-believing was an instance in which my surprisingly liberal teacher on religion unexpectedly showed us a Zeitgeist (2007) movie which among denying the historical existence of Jesus Christ also advanced a 9/11 truther theory that was highly convincing if you were not previously aware of the factual details of 9/11 and had the conception that modern wars are fought for resources (a conception I held).

That being said, while the Conservative-Liberal position was easily morally defended, its arguments did not address the core problem of any politics which is that a nation, including its culture and institutions is a reflection of the biological sum of the individuals that comprise it. I was not aware of Biorealism, Emil Kierkegaard or Rushton or Jensen at the time, but I have always intuitively believed in Darwinian understanding of the world and so even back then I recognized that female liberation will eventually result in sub-replacement fertility rate that can only be served via patriarchal means. The liberal-leftist synthesis was simply unsustainable long run. Furthermore, the entire Conservative-Liberal discourse has been already racialized as the “White man’s political position” by the left and so inadvertently matter (identity) has trumped ideals (abstractions) in the real world. Thus, from a practical standpoint, it was wiser to align with those whom society already groups with you, as your existence had already been politicized.

You can say that my politics in 2016 affirmed the moral righteousness and virus effectiveness of the liberal doctrine yet did not believe in its feasibility in many domains. However, on the emotional level I still opposed large aspects of it, and so my desire for White self-determination for example was just as strong in 2016 as it is today, with the only difference being is that I did not know how to publicly defend this position at the time and so I kept repressing it within me.

The reality was that I was not living in a homogenous high trust society and so I had to work with what I had. Back then I believed that an idea of a color-blind meritocracy is morally good in principal, remains an impossibility in the real world. First because it will simply not be followed by people out of their innate nepotistic predisposition and second produce unequal outcomes which would generate racial resentment on behalf of those who are not successful within it. On top of that, the only countries that could qualify as a color-blind meritocracies were scolded by the left as being uber-racist while no one else could yet provide a coherent example of a non-racist color blind meritocracy which was successful. At the same time, countries which were ethnically homogenous had larger welfare states, were more democratic and trusting. That is to say, they were a reality already achieved. A much more superior reality in fact, a reality in which one does not have to worry about racism, poor welfare usage and tribal politics to the same degree as a racially diverse country does. Furthermore, in a racially homogenous country people could afford to talk about politics bypassing the issues of identity politics (unless of course it mentions women, gays, etc). Can you imagine talking about reform in education or the justice system without it becoming an issue of identity? People in Japan, Hungary or Slovakia certainly don’t have to imagine.

I got carried away for a little bit. But at the moment, I understood these things intuitively and only when I began college (or university as I am Canadian) and engaged in Discord debates did I actually start looking up for different studies and read academic books among which were those who supported my views and those who challenged them, and I began reading everything I could get my eyes on. It is not as if I was illiterate in 2016, I just did not read the proper type of books. Before college, I was reading exclusively fiction, some non-political encyclopedias, history books or philosophical/political tractates from a different time. Perhaps the thing I am most grateful for about college is that it set me on a path of exclusively reading academic and non-fiction material which I would then utilize in my content output later on.

Since my childhood I was also constantly fantasizing about building an ideal society in accordance with Darwinian principles which could govern both racially homogenous and diverse societies likewise. 2016 was no exception and although I recognized that without a complete overhaul to the moral system along with huge technological and epistemic advancement it is not feasible. I believed that social standards in 2016 incentivized and selected for weaker individuals whose proliferation in the population converted into poorer national output, thus forming a vicious circle. I was not familiar with the concepts of Bioleninism or general systems theory at the time, yet I nonetheless saw the world in similar terms. Still, beyond that I did not know how else to apply Darwinism. I have not yet divided it into distinct categories, which would serve me better later on.

However for the majority of 2016 I was too busy obsessing over petty party politics and so nothing politically meaningful had occurred. In the next year however I began listening to Jordan Peterson which “deradicalized” me from some of my more radical views, but inadvertently pushed me towards learning about social and comparative psychology which then inevitably led me adopting a biorealist conception of social reality. Jordan Peterson may not have intended this, but he certainly can’t dangle a castle before me and then gate keep me from entering it.