> So why did a young man take on all of these cloaks and identities? Potaka and McMahon say that if Joshua Goldberg did have an ideology, it was one based on an extreme interpretation of the idea of free speech. But his aliases were so many and so contradictory that it’s difficult to tell what he really believed, or even if online essays published under his own name really represent his views.
The guy thrives on creating discord using manipulation and deception. He’s also 20 and living with parents. Hardly the profile of a FR’per.
^ with the exception of some liberal trolls that creep on here every once in awhile but we usually pickup the scent pretty quickly.
You didn’t get it. He created personas to jack people up. They can be anyone. Think of that the next time someone you are talking to online starts feeding you info that is unverifiable.
You need to apply a Turing tests of sorts. I’ve found most non-rightwing folks simply can’t pull off a rightwinger for very long without falling into parodt.