It’s insane that he pretended to be terrorists of Islamist, feminist, white supremacist, and Zionist origins, but the only one any government cared about in any way was the Islamist terrorists persona. It’s also insane that he was convicted of being an Islamist terrorist when it’s clear that he wasn’t an Islamist because they knew about all the personas.
Goldberg was also active on Twitter, Reddit, Disqus and others under the username MoonMetropolis,[7] a “free speech absolutist” who was involved with the Gamergate controversy. He would frequently use this persona to criticize the works of his other personas such as anti-free speech activist Tanya Cohen, arguing against points that he himself had made.[38]
Sums up a lot of modern political discourse pretty well imo. This kind of person, making disingenuous arguments against themselves, maybe for some reasons but mostly because they are insane.
In 2015, he wrote an article titled ‘Yes, Diversity is About Getting Rid of White People (and That’s a Good Thing)’ attributing it to a fake author named “Emily Goldstein”. The article was later retweeted by Elon Musk.
Crazy to think about the butterfly effect and how much societal damage one person can cause…
Yet the FBI don’t surveil Musk. I mean, even before Patel rendered it the Homer Simpson of alphabet agencies.
Thank you! I was wondering about the context
It’s always an attempted murderer and arsonist on here, these days.
It’s like the weird bit from Ender’s Game where his siblings become internet trolls pretending to be in opposition to each other, except within one guy, within one house.
yeah it’s fascinating that Card foresaw this kind of social influencing while being a very odd (religious conservative and game developer fiction writer) mix, but then he went wacko:
Card described an alternative future in which President Barack Obama ruled as a “Hitler- or Stalin-style dictator” with his own national police force of young unemployed men; Obama and his wife Michelle would have amended the U.S. Constitution to allow presidents to remain in power for life, as in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Nazi Germany.
Yeah, projection is common among conservative types.
If Lemmy is indicative of the left political spectrum, we can conclude that projection is common among humans in general.
Yes humans do it in general, but you find a lot more do it for a lot more who trend politically right.
So close, except that it’s Trump who has created his own private police force comprised of unemployed men and is trying to stay president for life.
Every conservative accusation really is a confession.
Tactical never-going-outside
I’m lost why this is funny? Cause he never left his parent’s house? Sounds like what a typical POS troll does?
You don’t find it funny to think of the FBI setting up surveillance on someone that seemed dangerous enough to be worth monitoring but it was all for naught because they were just watching a front door for over 14 hours a day?
To me there’s definitely an element of irony there both in terms of the troll’s life being a little bit pathetic compared to their personas and in terms of the FBI seeming like this ultra serious organisation but being rendered ineffective by virtue of someone just intensely doing nothing for a long time.
It’s such along punchline, tho =/
Oh. Uh… I thought it was supposed to be funny in the “me_irl” way…
I think it works on that level too 😏
