"I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny.

On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately these days the latter Tim isn't letting the former Tim near the keyboard very often."

I dunno...sometimes his racism and child-killing and "fuck them deads" seem to be fairly logical consequences of his basic philosophies. In fact, Tim May can only be truly free after every other human being in the world is dead... (Fade to wavy fluctuations of the visual field) The time is 2023, and Tim May finally figures out how to release a plague of nanobots that kill every human being in the world but himself. Now we see Tim May driving a Hummer over the rolling hills of No Cal, on his weekly excursion to view the piles of dead bodies on the outskirts of San Fransisco. He stops by a 7-11, picking up some supplies, and tosses a handful of pennies onto the counter, in front of the skeleton of the counter boy. "That's what the market can bare, my friend, and then some," he says with a sly grin. Arriving at the outskirts of San Fransisco he drives up to a tall hill, where some bodies are visible in the foreground, and downtown San Fransisco is visible in the distance. Complete silence pervades. Raising his fist in the air he shouts at the top of his lungs: "SODOMITES! NEGROS! STATISTS! BOLSHIES! I'M FREE, DO YOU HEAR ME! FREEEEEE!" Today he needs to re-gas the small powerplant that keeps his server farm alive. He decided to open his own Cypherpunks node, to which he posts on a regular basis. He's been issuing a stream of posts on "Darwinian Implications of Humanocide", and on how Darwinian evolution will eventually create a species much more advanced and free than the one he killed off. -TD

From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Re: Speaking of Reason Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:26:22 -0500

At 4:57 PM -0800 12/9/03, Eric Murray wrote:

...

I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny. On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately these days the latter Tim isn't letting the former Tim near the keyboard very often.

...

Fuck you dead. Fuck all of you Bolshies dead.

Ok, bye! <plonk>

Eric (just to make it crystal clear, Tim's going in my _personal_ killfile)

To quote a famous flying squirrel, that trick never works. Tried it myself a few times over the years, and one usually misses too much of what this list is for, as you noted yourself, above.

Unfortunately, if you want to read Tim, you have to read his evil twin Skippy, too.

Living in *his* killfile, on the other hand, and if he actually uses it, can be useful. Try it, you'll like it.

Cheers, RAH

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