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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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well that dosne't look like an attempt to evade emerging taxes, no siree bob
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Oct 26th 2018 at 12:37:26 PM
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Huh, little surprised at that. Though I admit I hadn't given it a lot of thought.
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There's video of him at a Trump rally:
https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1055863694306017281?s=21
Edited by Cris_Meyers on Oct 26th 2018 at 2:39:26 PM
According to the BBC
, the MAGA bomber made a bomb threat in 2002, but unfortunately it doesn't say who or what it was aimed at.
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It seems to have been directed at the (sort of) state power utility in reference to turning off his power. He also threatened one of the workers.
He said it would be “worse than Sept. 11,” according to Miami police reports seen by the network.
He allegedly called Florida Power and Light and threatened to blow up the building if his lights were shut off, in addition to threatening an employee with bodily harm.
Sayoc had been arrested a total of eight times, according to CNN. One arrest was for possession of a stolen vehicle in North Carolina in 1999, a spokeswoman for the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office told the network.
Another arrest was for trying to walk out of a Walmart with a shopping cart filled with $239 worth of merchandise, according to NBC News.
He also apparently claimed some affiliation to the Florida Seminole Tribe, but they have denied that he has any association them.
“We can find no evidence that Cesar Altieri, Caesar Altieri, Caesar Altieri Sayoc, Ceasar Altieri Randazzo (Facebook) or Julus Cesar Milan (Twitter) is or was a member or employee of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, or is or was an employee of Seminole Gaming or Hard Rock International. At this time, we cannot verify if he is or was an employee of a vendor company.”
Edited by Mio on Oct 26th 2018 at 3:53:36 PM
Y'all do realize it's possible for a person to have both Native American and Italian ancestors, right?
I'm not saying he does. Just that this whole "HOW CAN HE BE NATIVE AMERICAN?" thing is alarmingly reminiscent of the Right's "LOL POCAHONTAS" rhetoric. Dude being an asshole is not, in and of itself, reason to denounce his claimed ethnicity out-of-hand.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Here's a very good thread about the role of conspiracy in Far Right Organizing.
Some of the stuff about Capitalism is slightly fringy, but the general premise is still seems sound.
Because it's big.
Conspiracy theories are meant to do two things:
- Create a narrative that lends meaning to otherwise unconnected events.
- Isolate those who believe from those who don't.
And capitalism supports this every step of the way. Capitalism reduces us all to cogs in a profit-producing machine. It works to convince us that we're only as valuable as the profit we can produce for some boss.
This is a horrible way, solitary to go through life.
We need meaning. We need connection.
Concurrently, whiteness isolates us further. It convinces white people that they are wholly different from people of color. Capitalism isolates them from other white people. Toxic masculinity isolates men from women. Add in homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc. and you end up with a pretty tiny, dangerous bubble for cis white straight abled men.
So how does the far right exploit this?
It isolates those dudes more.
It convinces them that the very things that are oppressing them are the things that can save them.
Men who can't get a date because they're so steeped in toxic masculinity?
Instead of offering them feminism, so that women might actually feel safe around them and *want* to talk to them, groups like the Proud Boys tell them that it's women's fault for not being submissive.
Men who can't support themselves because capitalism has destroyed unions and ground the concept of a living wage into dust?
The Proud Boys tell them that they need to "glorify the entrepreneur." In other words, be the guy who grinds the little guy down.
Let's go a little further right.
Instead of abandoning whiteness and embracing interracial solidarity among workers, leading to strong unions and high wages, the alt-right tells white workers that their hard times are because of POC workers taking their jobs.
In other words, the far-right tells them to embrace that whiteness, that toxic masculinity, that bootlicking capitalist ethic, even as those things harm them.
And it uses conspiracy theory to do this.
The result is that you get cis straight white dudes who are *pretty* desperate for a connection, for some kind of meaning.
So when Richard Spencer tells them to "Become who you are" or when Trump says "I'm a nationalist," they eat it up like they're starving.
And as we've seen, they're willing to do some pretty weird things to bring that about. This week's mail bombs are the result of far-right ideologies being allowed to fester.
This is exactly why we no-platform fascists.
Because this is what happens when we don't.
Edited by megaeliz on Oct 26th 2018 at 4:06:01 AM
In a vacuum, sure. But there's more than enough reason to doubt just about anything this guy says. He's not just an asshole: he's an ideologically-driven domestic terrorist. I'm not going to take the claims of a literal terrorist bomber at face value.
Edited by Cris_Meyers on Oct 26th 2018 at 3:06:48 AM

Isn't it possible to just leave it blank?
Edited by PresidentStalkeyes on Oct 26th 2018 at 7:28:20 PM
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!