1. "You are what you pretend to be" -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. A few thoughts on Joshua Goldberg & the ontology of impersonation.
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2. Joshua Goldberg is a troll & compulsive sock puppeteer who got entangled in an alleged terrorist plot http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/11/terrorist-troll-pretended-to-be-isis-white-supremacist-and-jewish-lawyer.html …
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3. The Goldberg story is so bizarre that it is easy to treat as an outlier. Yet in many ways, Goldberg is symptomatic of our times.
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4. Counterfeiting, sock-puppetry, and impersonations are hardly unknown on the internet. In fact they pervade social media.
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5. On twitter we chat with long dead presidents (*ahem*
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6. Joshua Goldberg impersonations allegedly became entangled with terrorism. But how different is that from FBI use of agent provocateurs?
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7. Almost all "successful" government terrorism prosecutions involve impersonation and entrapment: the reverse Joshua Goldberg.
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8. Old Cold War joke: Communist party USA thoroughly infiltrated by FBI & USA gov't by KGB. So USA saved by a communist coup.
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9. Hardly an accident that Breitbart hit piece on Shaun King that Goldberg helped start written by FBI informant.
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10. The world Goldberg swam in -- the world of Breitbart, trolling and the FBI -- is a world of false flags, agent provocateurs.
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11 CORRECTION: Breitbart does publish a FBI informant but he didn't write the Shaun King story. (Thanks to @CathyYoung63)
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12. Stepping back a little: impersonation and counterfeiting are advanced by technology. Simulacrum is product of artifice.
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13. Forget about the internet and social media: one of the key technologies that allowed for the proliferation of false identities is print
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