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.
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 =/
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…
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.
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.
If he didn’t do anything criminal under those other personas, what would they prosecute him for? Most of his activities were just not crimes, but covered under free speech; giving someone bomb-making instructions in the belief that he’s actually going to commit terrorist attacks is not.
Australi Witness passed specific[22] information on the manufacture of a bomb targeting a September 11 memorial event in Kansas City, Missouri, to an FBI informant, who was posing as a Muslim extremist.
We can’t say how much of this deal was set up by the government and how much was his initiative. If this was a Honeypot and they caught a mentally ill man from it the question is are they running similar set ups for other “extremist” groups. If they’re just targeting Islamic groups then that shows some racism.
Not to mention they could have set up the trap for ANY of his personas and it would have worked the same. Creating fake crime just to put people in jail.
If indeed… We should always give the state the benefit of the doubt when they’re obviously being extremely racist right guys?
Thank you! I was wondering about the context
It’s always an attempted murderer and arsonist on here, these days.
