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Pretty young. I’d say around 8. My dad was actually happy he had a buddy to watch the Simpsons with, and it’s how I became a bit more cynical, and my k-12’s social studies class touched up on elections and presidential history. Anime also introduced me to an appreciation for foreign cultures including non-western ones, so for most of my life I was a lib even if I didn’t have the language for it. As for my folks, they were very middle of the road and never liked to talk about politics so I wasn’t swayed one way or another.
I was really happy when Obama won and I watched a lot of reddit atheist content when I was in middle school smirking to myself on how much smarter I am than the hogs. However, I made a brief dip to the right when all the anti-SJW stuff got started but came back after I was then exposed to a leftist on ifunny of all places, and the rest is history.
Yeah I, too, followed the path of atheist to Anti SJW owned with facts and logic stuff. I am not sure what pulled me out of it but I remember some hardcore leftists on 420chan being influential to me