😵‍💫 Skitzocow Augustus Sol Invictus / Austin Gillespie - Crazy Lawyer and Failed Politician, Kicked Out of Libertarian Party

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DuckbilledPlaty said:
I hate his fake shit hybrid accent. Some 1880's upper class brit mixed with fucking general Lee? Because those two regional dialects interacted all the time.
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Actually upper class southern men would have often went to school in Britain which led to a distinct antebellum southern rich male accent. Still no reason to try to revive it though
 
There are piles of yanked quotes stuffed in there and it's driving me nuts because I can't place a single one since he's cut them up to put his own words on them.

I get what he's trying to say, but it's just comical coming from him. It would hold more weight being said by Miley Cyrus.
 
Bassomatic said:
There are piles of yanked quotes stuffed in there and it's driving me nuts because I can't place a single one since he's cut them up to put his own words on them.

I get what he's trying to say, but it's just comical coming from him. It would hold more weight being said by Miley Cyrus.
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dude is trolling the fucking world. i love it

he's doing what we kiwis wish we could do, he's fucking with the entire establishment.
 
I'd love him to sneak plugs for his law practice in, 4 SCORE AND 7 YEARS AGO, CALL ME ABOUT YOUR TAX PROBLEMS OR DWI!
 
I like that loony libertards are complaining that he is making them look even crazier.
 
Sanae Kochiya said:
So this guy graduated law school?

... Guess even crazy people can get their shit together.
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Reminds me of the old joke about the guys in the nut house solving a problem for a passing motorist, the punch line goes something like this "I'm crazy not stupid"

Also, as someone who went to school for a long time (not for a JD) you HAVE to be insane to put yourself through that :P
 
I finally got around to watching some of his videos.

Is Augustus a wacko, a sick person, an edgelord or a troll? I'd say... neither. I was at first tempted to compare him to King Peter Fitzek, another political lolcow. But as Augustus pointed out in one of his speeches: Politics usually gets dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, and this is the great difference between Peter and Augustus: Peter has a very low degree of education and thus he managed to attract a number of people to his silly little kingdom by appealing to a dumbed-down mishmash of extreme right-wing and extreme left-wing positions. Augustus on the other hand seems to be more similar to Lyndon Hermile LaRouche.

He's neither crazy nor a troll -- he's a man who lives in his own world; a world where politics isn't some trite stream of debates, breaking news and propaganda, but a thundering world-shaking tragedy acted out by larger-than-life heroic giants, Plato's "Golden Souls" or philosopher-kings. This world is very far removed from the real world of politics, but neither Augustus nor Lyndon is impressed by this -- if reality is un-heroic, than reality better change!

It remains to be seen whether Augustus manages to attract a gaggle of followers like LaRouche did. His positions and demeanor don't have much to do with Libertarianism (if anything he's a sort of "aristocrat" in the Platonic sense, that is, "aristocracy" as an elite of philosophers), he probably just chose that party to have a platform on which to run. He probably should start his own movement like LaRouche did...


"The riffraff? Pah! Rienzi is who makes them knights; take Rienzi from them and they turn back into what they have been."

 
@DykesDykesChina: It's long seemed to me that the farther out you go on the ideological spectrum, the less your "politics" resembles practical work for reasonable goals, and the more it comes off as performance art and/or public group-therapy.
 
Augustus responds to the vicious lies of the Florida Libertarian Party:
AUGUSTUS SOL INVICTUS
U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 12, 2015
Contact: Raquel Okyay (813) 445-1659, press@invictusforsenate.com

CLAIMS MADE BY FLORIDA LIBERTARIAN PARTY ARE FACTUALLY WRONG

Orlando – U.S. Senate candidate, Augustus Invictus, said there is enormous pressure from inside the Libertarian Party to be detached from his campaign. “They value the tactics of blacklisting and censoring over free speech and debate.”

After attending by phone conference an Executive Committee meeting with the LPF last week, Invictus decided not to submit himself to the selection committee for review, agreeing that he had not been vetted and was not a certified candidate.

The EC and Invictus had agreed to report “just the facts” to the press, yet instead LPF publicly condemned him.”The EC already knows that I did not call for civil war or violence nor did I call for a government eugenics program or state-sponsored murder,” said Invictus. “That is why my membership was not suspended.” The entire phone conference can be heard here:http://fccdl.in/xFKvWQCMe

“I have repeatedly disavowed eugenics,” said Invictus. “Several members of LPF insist on repeating a known falsehood.” He said it is obvious that the Party’s condemnation has nothing to do with civil war or eugenics; it has to do with an agenda of scare tactics having little to do with the truth.

“This is all because of the fear of those on the Executive Committee that not condemning me to the media might make them guilty by association; which is fitting, considering the claim of the pro-Wyllie faction that I am a racist because of the clients I have represented in court,” he said. Adrian Wyllie stepped down as chair of the LPF two weeks ago.
“I do hope that the new chair will correct this mistake, lest America see the Libertarian Party as an organization that throws its own candidates under the bus whenever the media hits too hard,” said Invictus. “I find it appalling that an organization claiming to value freedom of religion has allowed a media scandal to drive them into a panic.”

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Source
 
AnOminous said:
A fairly recent case of such a citizen would be Roger Ver, one of the early Bitcoin guys, who moved to St. Kitts and Nevis and obtained citizenship there, shortly thereafter renouncing U.S. citizenship at the local embassy.

Later, he was denied a visa in Barbados for being unable to show he had sufficient ties to any other country and was therefore considered at risk of illegally overstaying his visa.

Apparently, he later got in applying for a visa while in Tokyo, where he apparently currently resides.

It's entirely legal to renounce citizenship to avoid taxes, although the U.S. generally assesses a final "fuck you" tax and you may still have some tax liability for a fairly lengthy period of time. This is the difference between tax evasion (illegal) and tax avoidance (legal).

It had definitely best be a lot of money involved, though, because you have sacrificed one of the world's God-tier citizenships for it.
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One of these days someone needs to get around to doing a thread about old Ver, or just the cryptocurrency community in general. The shit surrounding him is maddness. It should also be noted he served 10 months for selling low grade explosives and storing them in an apartment building.

I would, but frankly it's such a long, confusing mess that I wouldn't even know where to begin.
 
Strelok said:
One of these days someone needs to get around to doing a thread about old Ver, or just the cryptocurrency community in general. The shit surrounding him is maddness. It should also be noted he served 10 months for selling low grade explosives and storing them in an apartment building.
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I think I may do that. bitcointalk.org is probably the community where the most insanity goes on.
 
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