Anonymous asked: Molyneux being a Fed actually explains so much of his behavior. What about Christopher Cantwell, what odds do you give him of being a Fed?
Cantwell was the other obvious one I had in mind, yeah. And Richard Spencer tried to crash that libertarian conference, so I guess he counts as well.
It’s kind of lost in the mists of 4chan history now but one of the defining events in the early ideological development of what was to become /pol/ was the Hal Turner saga. 4chan mercilessly screwed with this guy running a white supremacist Internet radio show, mostly for the lulz, and wound up costing him thousands of dollars in excess bandwidth fees until it was revealed that he had been a fed all along. The fact that this asshole was sponsored by the government to act as a pied piper for potential radicals was a big shiny red pill the politically engaged segment of 4chan was forced to swallow, and it gave a lot of credibility to what would otherwise be dismissed as racist conspiracy theories, a genre that came to dominate the discussion on /new/, the predecessor of /pol/.
I’m always on the lookout now for libertarian Hal Turners and I’m very skeptical of anyone who’s just some dude with a podcast calling himself one of us while acting purposefully offensive, starting feuds against more credible libertarian figures, and particularly anyone who explicitly calls for violence like Cantwell has.