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Thoughts on My First Substack Article Please - It's About Elon Musk Posting My Old Troll Bait

Why were you put into the clink?
I've written extensively about my case and my online activities, most notably in my 2018 article "First Public Statement From Joshua Goldberg" published from prison. I've also spoken extensively about it in interviews, such as my interview with the podcast The Grillcast from a few months ago.

I'll quote you the closing addendum from my 2022 article "I Am Michael Slay: The Incredibly Strange, Incredibly True Story of How Someone With the Last Name Goldberg Became a Writer on the Most Popular Neo-Nazi Website":

ADDENDUM: It dawned on me after I wrote this article that, in all of my snide, sardonic, saturnine snickering and snarking, I, at times, come across like a pompous, arrogant, unctuous jackass with absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever who proudly wears the “KING OF TROLLS” title as some kind of badge of honor. As such, I would like to make this explicitly clear: there is absolutely no justification for any of the senseless, destructive, and antisocial activities that I was engaging in online. Andrew Anglin himself described me as “the most prolific troll to date”, but rest assured that I do not take any pride whatsoever in that. To the contrary, it’s a black mark of shame that will dog me for the rest of my life, and it’s something that I hope I will be able to move past in the coming years. Even if I never really intended for anyone to actually get hurt as a result of my online mischief, the simple fact of the matter is that my profoundly foolish and reckless online actions very well could have resulted in serious damage being done to real people, and it is very fortunate that I was arrested before my online shitposting inadvertently spilled over into real life. While it goes without saying that I will never apologize to any of the people talked about in this particular article (and I will certainly never apologize to the Australian government either), I do offer my sincerest apologies to the organizers of the Kansas City Stairclimb, who I caused a great deal of emotional distress to with the bogus jihadist plot that lead to my arrest (much more about that phony terror plot in the public statement that I previously published), and I also offer my sincerest apologies to any other innocent people who I caused mental turmoil to with my incredibly stupid, vile, obnoxious, and, at times, even downright monstrous online actions. If you are someone who I have hurt in the past — and you’re not rancid, scrofulous, scum-sucking subhuman plankton like Andrew Anglin — then I am truly sorry, and I earnestly hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive me. Most people on the autism spectrum tend to use their autism as an unlimited “get away with everything free” card, but not me. I accept full responsibility for my actions, and having autism provides absolutely no excuse for anything that I did. Thankfully, my thoughtless and fatuous actions in cyberspace never actually resulted in anyone getting tangibly hurt in real life, but they very well could have. Completely engulfed in the extremely negative and deleterious world of internet trolling, I showed absolutely no concern for how starting random online arson fires might actually result in real people getting hurt for real, and many of my online actions paint me as, as Anglin put it, “an unhinged psychopath”. That isn’t who I really am, and that certainly isn’t something that I take pride in — quite the opposite, in fact. As such, I just want to make that as crystal clear as I possibly can.

I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have for me.

Actual schizo handwriting, oh my kek.
That isn't how I normally write. I was writing big letters to make sure that you all could see it.

One personal idiosyncrasy of mine is that the only way I can write is by gripping the pen/pencil with my entire fist like a caveman.
 
I've written extensively about my case and my online activities, most notably in my 2018 article "First Public Statement From Joshua Goldberg" published from prison. I've also spoken extensively about it in interviews, such as my interview with the podcast The Grillcast from a few months ago.

I'll quote you the closing addendum from my 2022 article "I Am Michael Slay: The Incredibly Strange, Incredibly True Story of How Someone With the Last Name Goldberg Became a Writer on the Most Popular Neo-Nazi Website":



I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have for me.


That isn't how I normally write. I was writing big letters to make sure that you all could see it.

One personal idiosyncrasy of mine is that the only way I can write is by gripping the pen/pencil with my entire fist like a caveman.
So you're a reformed chud?
 
Looks like it's just one person at the moment: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/soyjak-party-the-sharty.145349/page-670

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Well I'll be damned.
 
@MoonMetropolis If you got sent back to 2012 with your current memories what would you do differently?
That's a really tough one. To really fix things, I suppose, I would have to go back to 2006 and stop my mother from having me do virtual school and giving me unfettered, unmonitored access to the internet. But who knows how I would have turned out anyways?
So you're a reformed chud?
I was never a chud. I often capriciously espoused an extremely eclectic range of wildly incompatible ideological viewpoints, ranging from far-left to far-right, basically just trying my best to always be as iconoclastic, contrarian, and mugwumpian as possible and to always disagree with whoever I was arguing with at the moment. I suppose, if you were to apply an ideological label to me, you would label me as a radical centrist (although, needless to say, I really hate placing any ideological labels on myself).

I generally take a hardline stance on civil liberties, especially freedom of speech.
 
What did you actually get arrested for? I read your Wikipedia article but I couldn't figure it out.
Someone pretending to be a teenage jihadist (who was actually an FBI agent) approached my fake "Australi Witness" persona and asked for bomb-making instructions and an event to bomb. I Googled "how to make a bomb" and sent him some links, and I also Googled random events in the midwestern US (where he claimed to be) and sent him the one that I figured would have the heaviest security. When he asked for further bomb-making instructions, I made a thread on 4chan's /k/ board asking for advice and then relayed that advice to him.

Yes, I know how stupid it was. Y'all don't need to tell me again.
 
Someone pretending to be a teenage jihadist (who was actually an FBI agent) approached my fake "Australi Witness" persona and asked for bomb-making instructions and an event to bomb. I Googled "how to make a bomb" and sent him some links, and I also Googled random events in the midwestern US (where he claimed to be) and sent him the one that I figured would have the heaviest security. When he asked for further bomb-making instructions, I made a thread on 4chan's /k/ board asking for advice and then relayed that advice to him.

Yes, I know how stupid it was. Y'all don't need to tell me again.
Oh.
 
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