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Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
- busterarm 8y agoWhat a time to be alive
- throwaway427 8y agoHahha TRULY. I loved reading the CDC growing up. That one of them is a serious presidential candidate now is truly making my day. I'm almost in tears laughing at the idea.
- ra7 8y agoHe might just be the guy who understands technology, privacy and cryptography. Or is that too much to ask for?
- jlisam13 8y agoAndrew Yang knows about it, check him out https://www.yang2020.com https://www.yang2020.com
- busterarm 8y agoIsn't this the guy that just said that within a generation white people will be shooting up Asians? I'm not sure how writing off a demographic of people not even born yet is going to go for his campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQNiiC0AzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQNiiC0AzA
- indigodaddy 8y agoYang is going to gain steam. Might give Kamala a run for her money. I recommend you check out the Joe Rogan interview.
- indigodaddy 8y agoDownvoted eh? Nice.
- LAMike 8y agoIt's OK they downvoted Bitcoin in 2012 too
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Yang is going to gain steam. Might give Kamala a run for her money. While it's extremely early (though in most recent elections, the eventual primary winner was at this point in first or second place, more often second), Harris is only polling third (consistently, across polls) and is way behind Biden (first) and Sanders (second, so arguably the most likely nominee).
- SlowRobotAhead 8y ago>Sanders (second, so arguably the most likely nominee). I wonderfully interested that you think the DNC would allow that to happen after just two year of being shown explicitly that they will do whatever is needed to make sure that does not happen.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> I wonderfully interested that you think the DNC would allow that to happen after just two year of being shown explicitly that they will do whatever is needed to make sure that does not happen. It's not the same DNC. While the Sanders faction didn't gain control after the 2016 election, they essentially got a power-sharing agreement and, more importantly, they've gotten a bunch of reforms, including mostly neutralizing the power of superdelegates. And Sanders is starting 2020 in a much stronger position than 2016, and doing so without an opponent with anywhere close to the establishment power of Clinton, whose partisans also were in charge of the DNC at the time.
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- jlisam13 8y agoNot to disagree with you, I think writing off a certain demographic is a terrible idea specially if you are running an inclusive platform like his, but what he said was clearly taken out of context.
- class4behavior 8y agoThat doesn't sound like him writing off a demographic but criticizing the path the nation is treading on. Unfortunately, he's using fear to do that.
- jplayer01 8y agoIs he wrong? Most terrorists in the US are white. Hell, the terrorists in NZ were white. For everybody downvoting me: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/2/16396612/las-vegas-mass-shooting-terrorism-islam https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/2/16396612/las-vegas-mass-... I'm not sure what's so controversial here. Most attacks since 9/11 on American ground were perpetrated by white supremacists or similar. But it's nice to see how quick Americans are to defend their precious country.
- spinach 8y agoUncomfortable truth is uncomfortable. White males are responsible for more mass shootings than any other in America, and down-voting isn't going to make it untrue.
- pastor_elm 8y agodownvoters probably believe they're isolated incidents of mental illness.
- sctb 8y agoPutting words in “downvoters” mouths is a rhetorical move quite below the standards of this site, no matter what kind of bleak subthread we're in. The guidelines ask us not to do it—please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- LMYahooTFY 8y agoWhat's your point? I'm not certain of my inferences from your comment, but you seem to be missing the context of what he's saying. He's leading into that with the underlying (and very valid IMO) assumptions that economic trends can yield predictive power for cultural outcomes, and that China (and thus Chinese people to the more homogeneous populations of the US) will be heavily demonized due to the ongoing economic show down between China and the US.
- isoskeles 8y agoIt's an fairly divisive comment to accuse some group of people of the futurecrime of murdering your own people in churches. That's a serious accusation of something that hasn't happened yet. I don't remember anyone blaming "Asians" for Virginia Tech, and rightfully so.
- Apocryphon 8y agoHis general point is that economic inequality leads to social distress leads to violence, often targeting scapegoated groups, such as those belonging to demographics shared by rival foreign powers. Is that so objectionable?
- pastor_elm 8y agoDidn't a white guy just shoot up a middle eastern church yesterday?
- ratling 8y agoYang doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell. He’s posturing just to raise his own public profile.
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- Apocryphon 8y agoWhy would he though? He doesn’t have a brand like Trump does.
- ratling 8y agoNot yet
- hanniabu 8y agoNice to see Andrew brought up. I'm excited to see him in the debates. He's the first candidate that has me excited about politics due to his methodical, analytical, and logical mindset rather than the others that make decisions based on nothing but beliefs.
- jak92 8y agoHe also rides a bike.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoAnd also drives drunk.
- moate 8y ago*Drove. We don't know factually what he's currently doing, but we can say he did in the past.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoIt's still a really irresponsible thing to do. One of the most dangerous crimes you can do. If pussygate was a big deal to people, driving drunk would be even worse, but it's not like it'll get the same coverage.
- jak92 8y agobut did he black face?
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoIf he did, he’s still qualified for governor.
- shereadsthenews 8y agoIf anyone can show that Beto has a hard copy of the Anarchists' Cookbook I'll vote for him twice.
- cronix 8y agoWhy would he? I'm sure he downloaded it so he didn't have to pay for it, like all of the cracked games he was getting. Sounds like he was phreaking and stealing from long distance companies, too. I wonder what war dialer he was using. > At the time, people connected to bulletin boards by dialing in to the phone lines through a modem. Heavy use of long-distance modem calls could add up to hundreds of dollars a month. Savvy teens learned techniques for getting around the charges, such as using other people’s phone-company credit card numbers and five-digit calling codes to place free calls.
- merlincorey 8y agoVoting twice seems like some kind of vote stuffing scheme. Probably best not to telegraph such intentions.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Voting twice seems like some kind of vote stuffing scheme Sounds like a commitment to do so in the primary and general election both, which is quite legal.
- checkyoursudo 8y agoOr just someone being an anarchist. ;)
- merlincorey 8y agoAh, good point! As an independent I don't participate in primaries typically.
- tantalor 8y agoYou should; lack of moderate voices in primaries only helps fringe candidates.
- zinclozenge 8y agoI hope nobody uncovers the naruto fan fiction I wrote in my teens when I run for political office.
- droobles 8y agolink?
- Kurtz79 8y agoYou joke about it, but it is kind of scary that some obscure tweet or facebook post one did in their teens might be used against them when running for (whatever) public office...
- dmix 8y agoIt's probably a lot like having a diary you wrote when you were a dumb kid in high school being picked apart by the media and senate as a measure of your ability to do a job as 50+ yr old.
- taborj 8y agoConversely, his supporters will use this as a measure of how "in touch" he is with "tech culture." So, on the one hand the stupid stuff will be touted as him being just a dumb kid, but the non-stupid stuff will be touted as revolutionary and ahead of his time.
- jjuel 8y agoI mean just look at what happened to some professional athletes. They get tweets dug up from when they were like 14.
- xxpor 8y agoThe fact that their agents aren't forcing them to delete everything from before they were adults or even making a brand new account is malpractice at this point IMO.
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- gorpomon 8y agoThis just makes me like him more.
- i45fyerhfmt 8y ago> I fear we will always have a system of government, one way or another, so we would have to use other means other than totally toppling the government (I don't think the masses would support such a radical move at this time).
- humbfool2 8y agoIt's better to have a leader who has an understanding of how things work rather than electing a leader who pretends to know everything and doesn't think global warming is real.
- arbitrage 8y agoWonder what his handle was.
- busterarm 8y agoIt says what it was in the article
- snazz 8y ago> TEENAGE WRITER: O’Rourke’s CDC writing from nearly three decades ago, under the online handle “Psychedelic Warlord,” remains online. In an image caption.
- arbitrage 8y agoYes, but it is a poorly written article, and I have no inclination to wade through five paragraphs of garbage to find it. Thanks for your help there, bub.
- puzzle 8y ago"Psychedelic Warlord" Well, at least he didn't turn out to be Satoshi. That would be one of the few ways to top this.
- gknoy 8y agoOn the bright side, the Secret Service are one of the few organizations I'd trust to keep one safe if one were Satoshi. ;)
- dontbenebby 8y agoPersonally I don't think "Satoshi" is a singular person.
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- droptablemain 8y agoOh ok. He's got my vote.
- kbenson 8y agoWoah, the name of his band when he was younger is reported as "Foss". Given his membership in the Cult of the Dead Cow, I wonder if it's actually FOSS...
- shereadsthenews 8y agoFoss was not in the lexicon in 1989.
- koboll 8y agoHis band was called 'Foss'? Amazing. EDIT: Found elsewhere where he claimed it was called that because it's Icelandic for 'waterfall'. But now I'm thinking that was a cover story.
- jak92 8y agoHe's nice and all, but can we go back to electing Presidents who have had lots of executive and political experience ?
- dvtrn 8y agoWhat, was being an elected congressman not enough?
- dv_dt 8y agoThough some Presidents have served as house representatives in their past, none of them made the Presidency without doing something else in between their house service and winning the presidency. https://history.house.gov/People/Other-Office/Member-President/ https://history.house.gov/People/Other-Office/Member-Preside...
- dvtrn 8y agoStill satisfies the stated refrain of "having political experience", but an interesting historical factoid nonetheless.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Still satisfies the stated refrain of "having political experience” The request was for candidates with “lots of political and executive experience”, not merely some political experience.
- dv_dt 8y agoThe "something else" was mostly to get more experience in leadership. The president with the shortest jump from House to VP then President, for example, Gerald Ford, had been the minority leader for five terms. It's not just a factoid. It shows that more experience has been generally required.
- dragonwriter 8y ago3 terms in the House and some local council work is not “lots of political experience”, at least by the standards of historical Presidents. Whether the software/services for he founded in 1998 and ran until...sometime before March 2017 is lots of executive experience is debatable, but it's certainly not particularly large scale executive experience for a Presidential candidate.
- LMYahooTFY 8y agoMy initial thought is this is quite provocative in the realm of federal political campaigns. I can imagine some interesting one liners during his future campaign, especially from the opposition, that will likely rile us all up. I enjoyed the story, and if any of it is legitimate and honest insight into O'Rourke's inclinations then I'm interested to see more of his policy proposals. Furthermore, I think the article's point about O'Rourke's technical literacy giving him an edge in obtaining support from the tech sector is interesting, and if at all valid, potentially a huge factor. Not that this really needs elaboration on HN. In regards to the CDC, I haven't heard of any members ever being convicted of a crime? I'm not confident enough to say it hasn't happened, but if so I'll take any good light to bring to the hacker culture that we can get these days.
- microcolonel 8y agoUnfortunately, he doesn't appear to have any actual policy platform related to the presidential run; at least, the other day when I visited the site I saw only merchandising.
- LMYahooTFY 8y agoIs he late in this sort of thing? Is it typical for candidates to have their own platforms put forth outside of the incumbent party platforms by this point?
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoYes, at least verbal. Even Warren is throwing pitches. Albeit not ones I agree with fully, but still she and others highlight specifics
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Is it typical for candidates to have their own platforms put forth outside of the incumbent party platforms by this point? Most of the top tier (by current polling) 2020 candidates don't have much beside donations and merchandising on their website yet; Harris has some things that are at about the level of a stump speech and Warren has actual issue pages. Those currently in Congress (e.g., Sanders, Harris, Warren, Gillibrand, Klobuchar) can (and do) signal platform positions concretely through sponsored legislation, even they don't have issues pages on their website.
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- donohoe 8y agoMy respect for Beto just moved up a notch!
- ds 8y agoIsnt 2600 older than CDC?
- Famicoman 8y ago2600 isn't a hacking group, it's a publication that has meetups. Both 2600 and cDc started in 1984, however. LOD did too.
- Pokepokalypse 8y ago2600; do you even crunch?
- ratling 8y agoI don’t believe this. The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he puts Texas into play a couple years early. This smells like a weak hit job. I’m not sold as Beto as the candidate but this is a weak meme. 2/10 be best.
- pnw_hazor 8y agoIf Beto had an R after his name instead of a D, you’d hear he was boarding-school-attending judge’s son who dodged serious charges for the DUI & burglary, used eminent domain to gentrify poor Latino neighborhoods & married into a billionaire’s family. https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/brace-yourselves-for-betomania/ https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/brace-yourse...
- MrZongle2 8y agoYep. There are two sides to any story. We only get one anymore; which one depends upon the political affiliation of the media organization or author and how it relates to the subject. The other side of the story is immediately dismissed as either a smear job or puff piece by partisans.
- grayed-down 8y agoYep, that's SOP. Lionize the D's. Brutalize the R's
- acdha 8y agoThe author of that piece is desperately trying to push the discrimination narrative, hoping nobody looks outside of the bubble long enough to question it. Anyone who wasn’t completely tuned out during 2018, however, will question it because it got so much coverage during the campaign — I mean, the DUI was such a secret that he spent a fair amount of debate time talking about it.
- theli0nheart 8y ago> The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he puts Texas into play a couple years early. This smells like a weak hit job. He agreed to be interviewed for this, so this would be a pretty poor attempt at a hit job if it was one. Source: > No one in cDc would talk about O’Rourke until I promised not to publish before the 2018 election. That was OK: I wanted the full story for my book, which spans decades, rather than 1 scoop ahead of a state vote. I offered O’Rourke the same terms. He accepted, and we spoke. (8/10) https://twitter.com/josephmenn/status/1106578743181496321 https://twitter.com/josephmenn/status/1106578743181496321
- js2 8y agoHe 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 guilt by association card. The only questionable activities by O'Rourke are: - he dialed long distance without paying for it. - he used pirated software. (Not that I'm defending this behavior, but so did I.) And he wrote fiction that barely rises to the level of a really bad Stephen King'esque short story. That's it.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 8y agoHonestly the drunk driving was the worst takeaway from the story. Maybe he is the next Kennedy haha.
- malvosenior 8y agoI 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.
- edaemon 8y agoThat will certainly be brought up in the campaign, but it was brought up in his House races and the Senate race and didn't seem to have much of an impact.
- cabaalis 8y agoWow, I used to read the Cult of the Dead Cow's stuff when I was a kid, mid-to-late-90s. Still won't be voting for Beto, but that is cool.
- hugh4life 8y agoReminds me of this old story... couldn't believe it was 10 years old when I googled it. https://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-is-chairman-of-san-diego-republican-party-080502/ https://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-is-chairman-of-san-die...
- gaze 8y agoWhy 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?
- smacktoward 8y agoBecause on the questions of what he intends to do and how he intends to do it, he has been maddeningly vague. It's hard to write about what somebody is going to do when they refuse to tell you. (In his defense, this vagueness can actually be read as strategic. Barack Obama took a similar tack in 2008, and it let people project onto him pretty much any profile they wanted. In politics, specificity can be a career limiter.)
- dv_dt 8y agoObama's strategy was good for his time, in 2020 I think candidates will need to be much more specific and forceful about their policy intents.
- velcrovan 8y agoFor real. Dude sided with republicans against his own party even though he was in a solidly blue district. Even campaigned all over the state for a republican! I love what he did for downballot dems in 2016 and he had that great speech on youtube. But c'mon. Mr GOP Lovefest is not who we need in 2020.
- edaemon 8y agoI didn't know much about his voting record, so I searched a bit and found this: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/21/18150359/beto-orourke-voting-record https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/21/18150359/... That indicates O'Rourke votes slightly conservative for a Democrat, but is still far more liberal than any Republican. The data cited there shows him pretty squarely in the "slightly conservative Democrat" range: https://voteview.com/person/21361/beto-o-rourke https://voteview.com/person/21361/beto-o-rourke Is that an inaccurate assessment? I'm wondering where "Mr GOP Lovefest" comes from.
- busterarm 8y agoHaving been involved in the community for most of my life, my very first thought was "oh that's cool he's one of us" and then I remembered that historically hackers have been phenomenally bad people to give any kind of real power to.
- duxup 8y agoThere's a wonderful glamorization of hackers and so forth. It's so appealing to think of some folks fighting the man from their keyboards and doing good things. So much so we have seen tech enthusiasts fawn over hacking groups from time to time and ignore less desirable behavior ... until we realize in the end they're just not what we want them / imagine them to be. I still like to think of there being some idealistic hackers one day that will change the world for the better, but I recognize they're still going to be just, people.
- dontbenebby 8y agoIMHO, the best hackers aren't forming groups and vying for "cred". They're quietly building their skills and exploring, while avoiding the spotlight at all costs.
- duxup 8y agoIt seems like everyone who gets caught is because they're talking about it online.
- dontbenebby 8y agoor living a lavish lifestyle ala Paul Le Roux https://magazine.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side https://magazine.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side
- dmos62 8y ago> historically hackers have been phenomenally bad people to give any kind of real power to Do you have any examples?
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- bitlax 8y agoDoes the Homebrew Computer Club not count?
- Famicoman 8y agoI feel like the author should have said "longest running," but sensationalized it a bit instead. I'm sure there were many hacker groups before 1984.
- CWuestefeld 8y agoThat's a different sense of the word "hacker". I would have tapped the 414s. You might call them phreaks, but I think it spanned the gamut.
- arminiusreturns 8y agoCdC has always controlled a candidate in every presidential election... HN needs to catch up.
- saalweachter 8y agoFun fact[1], Marco Rubio was also a member of cDc. [1] Fun fact, did you know that some historical uses of the word "fact" are more as an antonym to "opinion" than as a qualification of a statement's truth value?
- cazum 8y agoSo what? If anything all this does is show that being an old school hacker doesn't prevent you from becoming an ineffectual small-r-republican with a donkey pin https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/21/18150359/beto-orourke-voting-record https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/21/18150359/...
- dumitrupetrov 8y agoYou mean Democrat?!
- spudlyo 8y agoI should probably start making my "Psychedelic Warlord 2020" lawn sign now.
- nabla9 8y ago- Was member of a punk band - Arrested when sneaking into private property. - Member of cDc - Co founded a small Internet services and software company. - published an tiny online newspaper, Any hacker born in 70's can relate.
- writepub 8y agoExcept for the actual hacking part. When everyone is a hacker, no one is. But let's put facts aside, for Beto makes us all feel really good with the inaccurate "hacker" moniker attached for political mileage. I personally would love to anoint him with the "Doctor" moniker, for his active contributions to WebMD.
- huvaxet 8y agoSince when hacker news promotes political threads?
- dumitrupetrov 8y agoSad indeed. And the robots downvote.
- chlvsl 8y agoCan we please stop calling him Beto? It's clearly intended to try to appeal to the growing Hispanic electorate by making him sound Hispanic/Latino, when in reality he's totally white and Irish. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
- pteredactyl 8y agoSo he's a criminal. Great. I don't care if he skateboards, hacks, smokes, whatever. What concrete results has he delivered?
- linkmotif 8y agoWas anyone about to glean from this whether Beto is 1337?
- antibland 8y agoBeto has taken more donations from oil and gas companies than any other Democrat. The only politician who's taken more is Republican Ted Cruz. His vagueness on many issues is partly due to how beholden he is to his donors.
- hanniabu 8y agoThis is very important to note.
- foolfoolz 8y agohes from texas, oil and gas represent a large amount of jobs and they pay well. a good chunk of the american economy runs on oil and gas jobs. why is this a bad thing?
- VectorLock 8y ago>Beto has taken more donations from oil and gas companies than any other Democrat. I wonder how much of that is an artifact of running in Texas.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> I wonder how much of that is an artifact of running in Texas. It's unlikely to matter in a Democratic presidential primary campaign, especially one where a number of candidates are going to try to use environmental issues as a key differentiator.
- BookmarkSaver 8y agoHe was almost a victorious Senate candidate in Texas, and it's no coincidence that the other person with the most was his opponent. Context matters.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> He was almost a victorious Senate candidate in Texas “He needed the fossil fuel money in order to almost (but still not) win his one campaign for statewide office” is probably not a defense the O'Rourke camp would be well served by when the issue, inevitably, arises.
- VectorLock 8y agoThis is good advertising for a book on the cDc that I never would have known about otherwise.
- efficax 8y agothanks. i hate it
- KorematsuFred 8y agoIn 2019 I expect this to actually work in his favor than other way around.
- zxcvvcxz 8y agoIsn't this the guy who wants to dissolve the border between Texas and Mexico? Jesus. Here's the difference borders make: check out Nogales Mexico vs. Nogales Arizona - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/travel/nogales-arizona-mexico-border.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/travel/nogales-arizona-me... It's not race or genetics or even culture. It's the institutions separated by country borders that let almost otherwise identical cities have radically different outcomes.
- BryantD 8y agoHey, I may have missed something -- do you have a cite for the claim that he wants to dissolve the border?
- dumitrupetrov 8y agoHere one: https://www.dailywire.com/news/43514/tear-it-down-beto-orourke-wants-knock-down-ryan-saavedra https://www.dailywire.com/news/43514/tear-it-down-beto-orour... google it, there's a video.
- BryantD 8y agoThat's to be a video of Beto arguing that walls should be torn down. I'm asking about this claim that he wants to dissolve borders.
- Chris_Chambers 8y agoWow, Beto is so cool. I will definitely vote for him when he runs for president because I read this article. Thanks for sharing this valuable and insightful content on HN.
- writepub 8y agoWith Elizabeth Warren's bonafide native american roots, and Beto's hacker cred, I'd say we're witnessing a very honest, salt of the earth campaign by the Democrats.
- samirillian 8y agoUnfortunately, his politics are not nearly as progressive as his public posture. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/my-advice-to-progressives-dont-back-down/2018/12/14/b6e0bacc-ffbf-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.66d9aad73c68 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/my-advice-to-progres...
- pseudolus 8y agoThe hacking is much ado about nothing but apparently the New Yorker has dug up some past associations that raise serious questions about O'Rourke's youth: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/beto-orourke-rocked-by-scandal-as-high-school-mixtape-appears-to-include-reo-speedwagon https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/beto-orourke...
- dmode 8y agoWhat ? I didn't think Beto could be more cool after his punk band and skateboarding "scandals". I really really hope he wins the nomination.
- Chris_Chambers 8y agoYou are easily manipulated.
- merlincorey 8y agoI'm a little late to the party, but... For anyone interested in finding writings by "Psychedelic Warrior", here's a search you can use to get started: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&&q=site%3Atextfiles.com+"by+Psychedelic+Warlord"&btnK=Google+Search&oq=site%3Atextfiles.com+"by+Psychedelic+Warlord" https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&&q=site%3Atextfiles.c...
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- tzhenghao 8y agoOh my, just imagine one of us running for president, and someone found out we're part of "Hacker News".
- RickJWagner 8y ago"When he was younger, he was arrested on drunk-driving charges and played in a punk band. Now 46, he still skateboards." Funny how the combine a very bad thing with some cool things as counter-weights. I'd have more faith in the objectivity of the article if they mentioned that O'Rourke actually put people's lives in danger, hit a vehicle, and tried to leave the scene. [1] [1] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Police-reports-detail-Beto-O-Rourke-s-1998-13195088.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article...
- giardini 8y agoReuters shelved the 'Buff My Balls" (Beto's own poetry) hacker story until after the 2018 Senate race: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-17/reuters-shelved-butt-shine-beto-hacker-story-until-after-2018-senate-race https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-17/reuters-shelved-bu...