As someone who was a lame dabbler in phone phreaking in the 90s, he is
absolutely one of those hangers-on without real solid technical skills. When I was in high school I could do some stuff and then I went to a small con and met some
real researchers and realized how little I really knew.
There was an
old video of him at a hackerspace talking with a more technical hardware hacker types, and his [lack of] expertise shows. There is also the
Derbycon video where he mentions some of his "exploits" in hardware hacking.
Dude is at best a try-hard Kevin Mitnick social engineering type. He's a bullshit artist. Looking at his brother Chris, the ability to bullshit runs in the family, but Chris seems to have other shady SEO skills to back that up.
Things have to get much worse for there to be a
genuine civil war. It's far more likely we see something that resembles a color revolution or the Arab Spring; mass protests and a resignation of government to preserve the general peace / security of the nation. You could easily look at the mass protests in 2020 and the "
election fortification" and say we already had one, and just didn't realize it. Countries of the scale of the US don't just go up in a shooting civil war, Syria style.
Jesus Christ these two. If I'm not mistaken they're two retards who used to work with Hope Not Hate and left because they either A) were too radical for HNH, or B) wanted a bigger slice of the grift. I follow them on a Twitter alt and they've got some bovine potential.
They also look like they've been doing the
respectable left wing grifter internet talk show circuit. Claire did a
podcast episode with
Kiwifarms fan, retarded leftist grifter,
doxxer, and general
hypocrite, Jared Holt. She also apparently did an episode of
the podcast of notorious grifters The Lincoln Project. In other news I guess The Lincoln Project
haven't shut down yet after all the #metoo stuff. Haven't watched either episode yet.
Also, in re: Luke: he still at least tries to do on-the-ground stuff, and has a foot in the whole lolbertarain Free State Project. Like a stray cat, he comes and goes as he pleases. Nice of Seamus to return to the Shimcast. I need to catch up on what my favorite politispergs are up to, haven't watched more than the Mike Rowe episode this year.