Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros

TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  knowyourmeme.com/memes/glowie-glowposting

  Glowie, also known as a Glown****, is a slang term popular on 4chan’s /pol/ board used in reference to CIA or other governmental agents posing as ordinary 4chan users in order to bait others into sharing incriminating information.

  In 2017, schizophrenic computer programmer Terry Davis, known for his TempleOS software that he claimed was dictated to him by God and meant to be God’s third temple, made a video showing off various aspects of TempleOS. In the video, Terry says, “The CIA n*****s glow in the dark, you can see them if you’re driving. You just run them over, that’s what you do.”

  The term “glow in the dark” refers to the obvious nature of their camouflage, leaving them exposed when they’re trying to hide in the shadows.

  In fairness to Brave CEO I did not know it had racist origins and only thought it referred to the last paragraph.

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  • TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for the reply!

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  • DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s fucking weird that not 3 or 4 days ago… I was literally reading about Davis. And the glowing CIA ranting that he was doing. Total coincidence

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    • fluf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      4chan adopted it from him iirc

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      • DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I dont go on 4chan though, the only exposure I have to it is occasionally reading greentext vids/stories on other sites.

        I was just on a random rabbit hole that Briefly involved templeOS and somehow ended up on the “hit CIA with your car they arent humans” video

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  • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the problem with racist bullshit. They scrape the racism off and peddle it everywhere until it’s widely accepted and not tied to it’s roots anymore.

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• febra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Terry A. Davis popularised the term. He was a software engineer that ended up with a very bad case of schizophrenia. While unemployed due to his illness, he streamed while working on his own operating system that he built with the intention of “communicating with God”. While streaming, he used to go on these rants about how federal agents are spying on him, calling them “glowies” more often than not along the n word with a very hard r at the end. The term “glowies” has very racist associations.

  In other words, you need to be somewhat fairly far down the alt-right pipeline if you actually talk about “glowies”.

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  • Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TempleOS is legit super impressive, it’s a shame the dude was pretty much insane but also that’s probably what it takes to code an entire OS from scratch entirely by yourself.

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• LupertEverett@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It comes from Terry A. Davis’s description of CIA, FBI and the like: “They glow in the dark”

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  • gwilikers@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That statements is actually infused with some recital epithets.

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    • fluf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The CIA relation is racist? Or the fact the chanoids added the n word at the end?

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      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pretty sure there’s at least one quote of Davis himself using the n-word to refer to federal agents before describing how bright they glow…

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