• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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      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.

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      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.

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      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…