yeah, man.. I got muscled out of The Left for wearing masks too early in the pandemic, but I don't feel like it's controversial to say that Pizzagate and QAnon are "weird"

Cool story bro. But don't blame other people for "muscling you out" of your principles. It's on you.

I'd still call myself a leftist. But like pretty much all rational people who've done any introspection at all: I'm now an alt right maniac because I'm willing to talk to people I disagree with and try to think things through from their perspective.

I masked up early since people wear masks in hospitals and people mask up in Asia when they're sick. That made me "anti-science"

I think free speech is actually important even if scumbags lie to people. I think that the government shouldn't have the ability to arbitrarily decide what is and isn't true from one day to the next, and they DEFINITELY shouldn't have this much soft power to shut down unwanted narratives through backchannels.

What's really funny about all this is that I can talk to my actual hard-right friends about this stuff, and they don't rage on me for being pro-trans or any other views they disagree about. We can talk about it, find the root of our disagreement, and then live in peace. The only Leftists I can get to that point with are others like myself who've been muscled out and branded dangerous alt-right lunatics.