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SoberSecondThought ago

I agree FBI Anon was the real thing, but even with all that insider knowledge, he is still just human. He talked about having a suicide pact with his wife if Hillary won, or being suicided if he was caught. He was a very stressed-out individual, and that could not help but influence his conclusions.

I think there could very well be war, but so long as it isn't a US-Russia nuclear exchange, civilization will survive and the U.S. has the forces to keep itself safe. I admit that there could be civil war in the U.S. but I think that's actually more likely to happen in places like Saudi or Pakistan. Or France.

The analogy I like best is the 30-year struggle in Sicily to get rid of the Mafia. The authorities would get the goods on a top guy; so the Mafia would blow up a highway just as the armed convoy carrying the judge in the case was passing (true story). But that wouldn't get the charges dropped, and another judge would come forward. People would refuse to pay the protection money, and get their businesses burned down; but then the whole town would donate funds to rebuild whatever business was destroyed, and put up stickers saying their business would not pay either (another true story). It was a long, slow, heartbreaking grind.

Similarly here. If it does come to war, or civil war, well, those are the breaks. We cannot let fear of that outcome stop us. But personally, I am looking ahead to a couple of decades of volunteering and donating to citizens' organizations, doing the dirty, tedious work of keeping the politicians accountable, getting past the media roadblocks, debunking the fake news, and slowly but surely taking back the big media companies, the social media, the universities, and the federal, state, and city governments. I'm trying to see past the first spasm of chaos to the long-term changes that are needed, and I encourage everyone to try and do the same. What you are seeing here today is the start of a generation of effort.

In other words, folks, try to breathe, and pace yourselves. This can be done, but it's going to take longer than you're probably hoping right now.

EDIT: Oops, I referred to a "judge" above, but it was actually a prosecutor.

paulf ago

I agree FBI Anon was the real thing, but even with all that insider knowledge, he is still just human. He talked about having a suicide pact with his wife if Hillary won

There's no mention of a suicide pact anywhere in the transcripts.

SoberSecondThought ago

Yes, there is, at least in the edited transcript that VOAT has been pointing to. I can't speak for the original, unedited 4chan threads, as I haven't gone through them in detail. See the section entitled "FBI Anon's safety" in Part 2

paulf ago

So there is - I stand corrected. I have a PDF which I searched which is supposedly all of what he said but it doesn't include this bit. Thank you.