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1. Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 02:42:27 JST Aven

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   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
   @icedquinn I'll take a look, but it's worth mentioning that a lot of the people I look up to are former marxists:
   
   Thomas Sowell was a marxist.
   Jordan Peterson was a marxist.
   
   The most sage people are the ones who've been in both sides.
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   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 02:42:28 JST iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:

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     @aven i have a card for david shor, too, who was a lifelong democrat that became disenfranchised when learning it was all fake https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-culture-2020-election-theory-polls.html
   • Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 02:42:29 JST Aven

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     • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
     @icedquinn there's so much more
     
     Hastings was a longtime critic of the U.S. drone program.[55] In May 2013, Hastings denounced President Barack Obama's foreign policy and use of drones as an embrace of Bush-era neoconservatism and "total militarism."[56] Hastings said that Obama "enshrines killing people and spying on journalists as the two major tenets of his national-security state."[57] During the discussion, Hastings said that MSNBC contributor Perry Bacon, Jr., was acting as a "stenographer" for the White House.[57]
     
     On June 18, 2013, Hastings died in a single-vehicle automobile crash in his Mercedes-Benz C250 Coupé [...]. A witness to the crash said the car seemed to be traveling at maximum speed and was creating sparks and flames before it fishtailed and crashed into a palm tree.[59][60] Video from a nearby security camera reportedly shows Hastings's vehicle speeding and bursting into flames.[61]
     
     Witnesses described the car's engine being ejected 50 to 60 yards (46–55 m) from the scene.
     
     Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard A. Clarke said that what is known about the crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack." He was quoted as saying: "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers—including the United States—know how to remotely seize control of a car. So if there were a cyber attack on [Hastings'] car — and I'm not saying there was, I think whoever did it would probably get away with it."[72]
     
     The day before the crash, Hastings indicated that he believed he was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In an email to colleagues, Hastings said that he was "onto a big story", that he needed to "go off the radar", and that the FBI might interview said colleagues.[73][74] WikiLeaks announced that Hastings had also contacted Jennifer Robinson, one of his lawyers, a few hours prior to the crash,[75] and the LA Weekly reported that he was preparing new reports on the CIA at the time of his death.[76]
   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 02:42:30 JST iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
     > His last story, "Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans", was published by BuzzFeed on June 7, 2013. Hastings died in an automobile crash on June 18, 2013, in Los Angeles, California
     
     amazing timing :blobcatgoogly: