Curious if anyone has the original Universal Monk comment handy.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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What's the actual lore here?
Universal Monk was a prolific poster around election time; he had tons of alt accounts that all posted stuff purposely made to divide the left.
After his accounts all got banned for trolling and evasion, he started up the Donald J Musk accounts and repeated the cycle, this time posting far-right fascist content and trolling people with lies, disinfo, and general unpleasantness.
It's been an open secret for a while that they were the same user based on the MO, but apparently he fucked up and reused a comment.
The fact that [email protected] had to be created still baffles me
As a big Umphrees McGee fan, who had previously blocked and forgot about UniversalMonk, seeing a bunch of posts talking smack about UM really threw me for a loop when it got real bad haha.
And if more people did that, we wouldn't have to have entire threads like this. People follow me around rather than block me. It's weird. lol