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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.
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.
Yeah, Card turning into a nutter turned me off his work and recomemding it.
Partly agree about liking him as an author. He can pound sand because of bis politics, for sure. He is pretty much a one trick pony. The majority of his lead characters are all child messiahs or some variant of child with special powers. Heck, one of them (Earthfall) is pretty much a character ripoff of Joseph and his cloak of many colors in the bible. So after reading a few of his books you’ve kinda seen them all.
That said, I really liked the Ender series, as well as The Redemption of Christopher Columbus.
Same. I hate that Ender's Game was the first book I couldn't put down as a teenager.
I guess one truly can find diamonds among turds.
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.
Oh. Uh.... I thought it was supposed to be funny in the "me_irl" way....
It's such along punchline, tho =/
Goldberg was released from prison on April 1, 2024.
I hope he's doing good these days. That lifetime paroles gotta suck. Welp, don't go planning terrorist attacks, people. You don't want to live and learn like Joshua did.
Oh thank you.
For a minute, I thought it was about the wrestler Goldberg
That’s just reddit alone, some of which he was moderating groups he had set up.
He was also posting blogs and trolling forums under different names, sometimes arguing against his own personas. He also didn’t seem to hold any consistent beliefs, he was just the best troll to have ever existed and been unmasked.
If anybody wants to give living this way a shot I might be hiring some additional artists for my comics soon.
Living what way? In their parents basement, or in jail?
Staying online indoors for multiple weeks.
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