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That sounds very much like a campaign to make Substack writers feel as threatened and uneasy as possible. Shouldn’t be surprising, given where we are now, but still... Thank you for all you do.

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Naw, it's just a salesman spam scam.

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Or maybe just pretending to be one. Somebody has my email address now. No point in worrying about it.

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So you’re saying that we aren’t having lunch on Saturday?

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Dale: Only if you are buying.

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Jul 13, 2023·edited Jul 13, 2023

LOL

Either that or be prepared for the strangest lunch meeting of your life.

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and here I was

all Geared-up

for Brunch on

Sunday. Alas!

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But I feel like I'm missing out on some tremendous money-making opportunities - if I don't contact you...😉

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Based my dude I like to consider myself the second greatest anarchist from evergreen park il, shout to the cia torture victim and genius teddy k. Fun fact his cousin is the music teacher at ep high he changed his name to kazach for short.

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Methods aside - history has proven him correct, in many ways... Though to be fair, that's not really Ted K. - but rather, the FBI's somewhat laughable depiction of the "Unabomber suspect"...which was so far off, that it didn't wind up being what got him caught. Instead it was that same brother, who recognized the arguments in his manifesto, and then turned him in.

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Methods aside for sure but I always say no revolution is peaceful no change occurs in a capitalist system without blood mount my understanding is different since my dad and grandpa are from Ireland so like maybe I’m de sensitive to the idea of armed struggle

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I’m not calling for violence and I’m not the fed in the chat I’m just saying the idea of peaceful revolution to me doesn’t bare out in history and I can tell you from experience my dad moved to chicsgo in the late 90s so I know the struggle the north had to go through just be recognized as human and get basic rights so like the idea of sending bombs to get a revolution started is literally and I can’t stress this enough literally what created Ireland as a nation today.

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I’ll ask this too something I’ve always wonder in industrial society he never says I he refers to fc as we almost implying he had a team or at least friends

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Jul 13, 2023·edited Jul 13, 2023

They do the same shit on Youtube.

Could be Feds trying to get you to e-mail them so that they can ID us. Easy to at least get IPs from e-mail source code unless one uses say Protonmail or the like.

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Feds have simpler means to find that out. These could be some prankers or low level jerks phishing for entertainment. I bet every single time they get a few.

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It's not quite as easy to inject remote access tools etc. onto someone's device via those "simpler means."

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No need. Just get logs and/or subscriber lists from Substack through coercion.

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Likely, but you never know. The feds have hired thousands do troll and do other such stuff as well. Just throwing it out there as an option.

Don't think for a second that there's a whole lot of coordination between the varying depts. and agencies in the Govt. There isn't.

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To throw a monkey wrench and sabotage the platform - sure. To find out about users - they definitely have easier ways and those they're interested in they know everything about already.

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Perhaps, but while I'm the world's biggest skeptic, things aren't always what they seem. The data may be out there, but to think that the dolts that largely run the federal government are on top of all that is laughable.

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I'm pretty sure they have access to the IP addresses of everyone who uses the internet, as well as a trail of every url they have visited and their comments. Worse, if you dont have your cameras taped up, they can see what your face looks like when you are typing, and we know they can record when our phones are off. France has even made this legal

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Happened to me on another writer I follow under a comment I had written on a post a week or two earlier. And about as soon as I saw it and went back to it the comment with a phone number had disappeared. It was definitely a phishing expedition, even thought it all looked like the real writer, the name embedded link took me back to the real writer's page. It was a pretty sophisticated op, to have a viewing trackback capability to know it was viewed they had to have access to Substack's statistical tracking they have for writers to see their visits, views. Not kids playing around. Intelligence of some kind.

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That happened to me! I was given a phone # to contact you privately, but I knew you would never do that.

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You are one of the most important female voices on the war-ravaged planet. Of course, the empire will do anything to undermine you and make your life difficult. It's a reflection of how important your voice has become that they are investing time in hassling you.

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I've been hit by two fake Caitlins today asking me to email them. Is everything corrupted?

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I get the same request if I post to Russell Brand on YouTurd!

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Thanks for clearing that up, I got one of those from “you” about a month ago and was wondering about it. Figured it was spam / bot / just so.

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There are no spam bots really. It's Russian propaganda. And the Chinese 5cents liberation army. 😂🪬

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Straight out of Putin's playbook!

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This is so sad.

I really appreciate your writing, poetry and perspective. Keep up the great work!

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Yup. Just got one spoofing you. It (purports to) have a gmail account. Have you reported this to Google? Needs to be shut down at the source as well as being filtered from Substack. Take screenshots, people: evidence.

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That's good to know. I received that troll's message claiming to be you with a Gmail account. I'm 99.9% sure you would never use a Gmail email address for public use. You're too smart for that.

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Yep, one of them just fooled me. Gave 'em a piece of my mind, I did.

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Your substack comment sections also have a ton of right wing trolls- non of whom are even authors. But don’t worry. I report their accounts viciously.

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You just got fired by NAFO, huh?

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I’m super against war actually, it goes against everything I believe in, you stinky disgusting rotting infected anal abscess. I’m gonna find out your personal information.

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