Interesting thread on Breitbart and cocaine by Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin

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Me and my LA blogger pals used to hang with Andrew Breitbart, or rather, he used to like to come out of his bunker now and then to hang with us. This wasn’t war until they decided to make it war. I believe America might’ve been very different if he hadn’t been so into

(gif of a razorblade, rolled up dollar bill and a Christmas tree made out of cocaine)

It’s kind of interesting that this particular kind of addiction and the damage it does to the heart is something he has in common with… others

I remember when things got dark he started touching women aggressively. Shoving a prominent female TV news anchor in front of an elevator one time if I remember correctly. Breitbart’s heart. The cocaine didn’t help but it was long rotten.

So many of these men are very sick in this way. It’s important to talk about it.

Unlike alcohol, this is an addiction where the supply factor gets very sensitive very quickly if you have a dependence. Picking up a bottle of vodka isn’t expensive. But a more costly addiction can cause a man in power to do all sorts of things.

I was never a cocaine addict but I understand if you can’t get access to the real thing, Adderall helps. Might be something to keep in mind

Even at its most lucrative in the 2000s, being a blogger was not a lifestyle that could sustain this sort of overhead. No. These temptations require the addict to make devil’s bargains beyond that world.

Now there are all sorts of reasons a weak amoral man or woman might want to get in bed with a lot of money. In one country they call that “kompromat.” Don’t get it twisted the word doesn’t mean peepee tape. It means the leverage by which an individual or system can be corrupted

I want you to put a pin in what I’m about to say. When the financial crash happened in 2008, all of us Internet publishers lost our damn minds. And that is exactly when Russia moved in with money. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yuri Milner…

Don’t forget it.
You’ll need it.

Hey it’s not “narcing” if he’s dead.

Hey you know who else was really really really into stimulants. Him and his whole army. Look it up. Meth and cocaine, in their modern roots, have been the nazi, fascist, and neofascist drug of choice. White Powder, White Power.

Ask me how I know.

(Life experience. That’s how.)

Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments

In the fall of 2010, the Russian billionaire investor Yuri Milner took the stage for a Q. and A. at a technology conference in San Francisco. Mr. Milner, whose holdings have included major stakes in Facebook and Twitter, is known for expounding on everything from the future of social media to the frontiers of space travel. But when someone asked a question that had swirled around his Silicon Valley ascent — Who were his investors? — he did not answer, turning repeatedly to the moderator with a look of incomprehension.

Now, leaked documents examined by The New York Times offer a partial answer: Behind Mr. Milner’s investments in Facebook and Twitter were hundreds of millions of dollars from the Kremlin.

Obscured by a maze of offshore shell companies, the Twitter investment was backed by VTB, a Russian state-controlled bank often used for politically strategic deals. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html