Fortunately by that time, I already fell out of the libertarian pipeline, after realizing it was just fascism with extra steps. The rise of the anti-sjw stuff then pushed me away and made it clear they were never serious about supporting gays with guns growing weed.

Sidenote: It's fucking insane how my early views on American empire were informed by Ron Paul. He was the only person who would bring up CIA coups in Guatemala and Iran, or how the US supported Saddam du8rring the Iran-Iraq war. He talked about the drug war, and how much violence that spread through latin america. He was the only person saying that Al Qaeda had political reasons for terrorism, it wasn't just random anti-western violence. I learned the term "Blowback" from him. I think I even read Manufacturing Consent because of him. But I conveniently ignored all of his christofascist views, since that could be chalked up to "states' rights". Yes, I was dumb