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I defected from America to live with nomads in Central Asia

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https://xcancel.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1937473433262260342

As long as they don't come and terrorize Europe I don't mind.

"I took 20 Americans on the most dangerous horseback riding expedition in central asia" and there isn't one AK47 in any of the photos. What a poser.

I think some interesting context is that this person is fascist.

https://x.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1990332234029793537

https://x.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1990445865903980759

https://x.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1990066367123644745

That ideology seems to be at the root of much of their motivation for doing this.

Here he is unironically citing Ted Kaczynski:

https://xcancel.com/RoguesPhilo/status/1814993224148066772#m

I mean, I think after the umpteenth bug featuring 20 year old Java Enterprise code you aro only allowed to make minimal changes to, we all start to think about this don’t we?

Some just do it, sans Java Enterprise code exposure.

  Cope's expeditions include riding a recumbent bicycle 10,000 km across Russia to Beijing (2000) with fellow Australian Chris Hatherly;
  rowing a boat down the Yenisei River in Siberia to the Arctic Ocean in 2001 with adventurers Ben Kozel, Colin Angus and Remy Quinter;
  and riding on horseback from Mongolia to Hungary which spanned over three years (2004–2007) and 10,000 km;
  He has also traveled into North Korea, among other places.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cope

~ https://alastairhumphreys.com/blog/tim-cope/

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