Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

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agility_ said:
Can't imagine there's much posting done now, with the mass bannings and the poster drainage towards offsites.
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I typically use the car and computer subforums, but I'm still wary of posting much anything in either. People have started slapfights with me because I've posted videos from creators that have been unpersoned and I responded by saying I didn't care. Not wanting be banned is one thing, but the fact that people will latch on to any offhand comment you make and try to provoke an argument about nothing is tedious.
 
So apparently all that hype about the feds visiting Lowtax over LF was a sham, a con, an outright lie?

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Well shit, this'll make November really exciting.
 
I'm glad my only kink is lady mustaches. No need for potentially using trafficked foreigners for a bovine fetish instead of using that money on therapy or a lobotomy.
 
No Ma'ams Land said:
So apparently all that hype about the feds visiting Lowtax over LF was a sham, a con, an outright lie?

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Well shit, this'll make November really exciting.
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They filed a FOIA with the wrong agency. They should have filed with DoJ which would have covered any reason the feds would have visited Rich outside of outright counterfeiting, which is the only reason the USSS would ever visit him. (Threats to the President maybe, but that's usually FBI, the USSS doesn't have the manpower so they farm those out).

It should be noted this is a boilerplate response though, and that if there were any investigation ongoing all those records would be excluded from a FOIA request.
 
Learned Hand said:
They filed a FOIA with the wrong agency. They should have filed with DoJ which would have covered any reason the feds would have visited Rich outside of outright counterfeiting, which is the only reason the USSS would ever visit him. (Threats to the President maybe, but that's usually FBI, the USSS doesn't have the manpower so they farm those out).
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Threats to the President is exactly why he was (I guess allegedly?) visited by the Secret Service at least twice.
 
Learned Hand said:
They filed a FOIA with the wrong agency. They should have filed with DoJ which would have covered any reason the feds would have visited Rich outside of outright counterfeiting, which is the only reason the USSS would ever visit him. (Threats to the President maybe, but that's usually FBI, the USSS doesn't have the manpower so they farm those out).

It should be noted this is a boilerplate response though, and that if there were any investigation ongoing all those records would be excluded from a FOIA request.
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werewolf rape erotica said:
Threats to the President is exactly why he was (I guess allegedly?) visited by the Secret Service at least twice.
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Yeah I'm going to guess that Lowtax used "Secret Service" as a catch all for "Men in suits showing up and asking me about Obama posting" and it wasn't actual agents. The FOIA request probably just went to the wrong agency.

OTOH, the alternative explanation "Lowtax lied about shit" also seems equally likely.
 
Leonard Helplessness said:
I'm doing a bit of homework on Fluffdaddy. His Twitter account "ttownmike" was referenced earlier in this thread, and it does contain a lot of references to accounts on various sites with that username:

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Having scraped his Twitter timeline to a CSV file, a quick filter on his ~23,700 tweets shows he has dropped a PayPal donation link 64 times alongside tweets asking for assistance with various personal expenses. This PayPal donation link leads to the following page:

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His twitter timeline includes numerous references to life in Goodlettsville as well. It also has a lot of references to his feelings about pedophiles:

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The fellow he references in the third tweet is apparently his band teacher from school:

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He also talked a bit about being on disability, so I investigated. According to him, he blew out a knee at work and wound up getting payouts from short-term disability insurance, which he of course bitched relentlessly about while begging for more money:

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While working on his twitter timeline I also made sure to vacuum all of his photos up my asshole. There are many dog photos.

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Perhaps too many.

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He also has quite the appetite for gaming furniture, for somebody so cash-starved:

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If you're noticing a pattern, he does have a tendency to look a little bit downcast in all his photos.

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He's worked a variety of jobs, including as an uber driver:
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DOB: October 8, 1982 -- 37 years old as of this post (day) (year)

To close this out, a friend acquired access to an old TFLC (The Fitness Log Cabin) thread posted by Fluffdaddy, documenting his weightloss journey from 284 pounds to just 247.

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See attached for his twitter timeline as well as his followers and followed accounts. There's probably more shit that I missed, so have at it and have fun, kiwifrens!
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Like Koala's Mooch, the new token black moderator is a pan-handling parasite.

Unlike Koala's mooch, if he wasn't so ashy he'd actually pass the paper bag test.
 
Ghostse said:
Yeah I'm going to guess that Lowtax used "Secret Service" as a catch all for "Men in suits showing up and asking me about Obama posting" and it wasn't actual agents. The FOIA request probably just went to the wrong agency.

OTOH, the alternative explanation "Lowtax lied about shit" also seems equally likely.
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I'm on the "goons don't know the first thing about the US Government or FOIA" team here.
 
Learned Hand said:
They filed a FOIA with the wrong agency. They should have filed with DoJ which would have covered any reason the feds would have visited Rich outside of outright counterfeiting, which is the only reason the USSS would ever visit him. (Threats to the President maybe, but that's usually FBI, the USSS doesn't have the manpower so they farm those out).
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The SS has visited people who run Internet sites before, generally for threats to the President. The vast majority of the time it's just to look the guy in the face and make sure he is just a harmless raving nut like most people who talk shit on the Internet.
 
AnOminous said:
The SS has visited people who run Internet sites before, generally for threats to the President. The vast majority of the time it's just to look the guy in the face and make sure he is just a harmless raving nut like most people who talk shit on the Internet.
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While true, they're almost never the agency with the originating authority. Nor do they have the manpower, monitoring operation, or resources of the FBI as part of the DoJ. USSS is part of DHS, and is pretty small by comparison. Their bread and butter is counterfeiting since they were all revenue agents part of the Department of Treasury before DHS formed, DoJ has traditionally handled all of this.

So it's plausible, but I bet if someone filed a FOIA with DoJ or DHS proper, you might get a different result.

I contend Rich was lying about anyone from law enforcement visiting him outside of beating his wife though, so it's probably moot.
 
Learned Hand said:
While true, they're almost never the agency with the originating authority. Nor do they have the manpower, monitoring operation, or resources of the FBI as part of the DoJ. USSS is part of DHS, and is pretty small by comparison. Their bread and butter is counterfeiting since they were all revenue agents part of the Department of Treasury before DHS formed, DoJ has traditionally handled all of this.
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It was probably a lot more common to get actual SS when something like 1% of people were on the Internet. Now it's just a constant storm of dumb assholes saying dumb shit all day long.
 
Learned Hand said:
While true, they're almost never the agency with the originating authority. Nor do they have the manpower, monitoring operation, or resources of the FBI as part of the DoJ. USSS is part of DHS, and is pretty small by comparison. Their bread and butter is counterfeiting since they were all revenue agents part of the Department of Treasury before DHS formed, DoJ has traditionally handled all of this.

So it's plausible, but I bet if someone filed a FOIA with DoJ or DHS proper, you might get a different result.

I contend Rich was lying about anyone from law enforcement visiting him outside of beating his wife though, so it's probably moot.
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No joke, the secret service got into the presidential protection business because one of their informants tipped them to a plot by counterfeiters to steal Lincoln's corpse so it could be used in trade to get one of their gang members out of prison.

The nearly successful plot to steal Licoln's body is why the laws in the US about protecting cemetaries/graves are so draconian.
 
Upon the FOIA letter getting posted on the forums, goons have seized the opportunity:

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The QCS thread is mostly mockery with a few people seriously advocating for this. See attached for the thread as it currently stands.
 

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