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Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

#71
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly the Anarchists Cookbook may be unlawful[0] due to the way anti-terrorism laws are written. [0] https://theintercept.com/2017/10/28/josh-walker-anarchist-co...

That's in the UK. Such a law would run afoul of the First Amendment in the US.

Do texts that contain bomb-making information really fall under the first amendment in the US?

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

#73
Why are all the articles about Beto about how cool and antiestablishment he is? Just absolutely nothing about what he really intends to do, how he intends to do it, and most importantly, how do we reconcile his conservative voting record with this contrary image he presents?

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

#75
post #46

He named his BBS "TacoLand". He should definitely play up this angle...maybe campaign on a taco cart on every corner. I know people who will vote for him for that alone. This piece is a disaster. It's an excerpt from a soon to be released book, it's light on facts about O'Rourke and is at least equally about Cult of the Dead Cow, it's trying to make things sound more nefarious than they were, and it's playing the gui…

Honestly the drunk driving was the worst takeaway from the story. Maybe he is the next Kennedy haha.

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

#76
post #46

He named his BBS "TacoLand". He should definitely play up this angle...maybe campaign on a taco cart on every corner. I know people who will vote for him for that alone. This piece is a disaster. It's an excerpt from a soon to be released book, it's light on facts about O'Rourke and is at least equally about Cult of the Dead Cow, it's trying to make things sound more nefarious than they were, and it's playing the gui…

I agree the piece isn't very informative and is very scattered. That being said, this is definitely the most questionable thing:

> "When he was younger, he was arrested on drunk-driving charges"

That will follow him into the campaign far more than his CDC membership.

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

#80

Wonder what his handle was.

It says what it was in the article

> TEENAGE WRITER: O’Rourke’s CDC writing from nearly three decades ago, under the online handle “Psychedelic Warlord,” remains online.

In an image caption.

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