He’s Got $250 Million to Spend on Communist Revolution (archive.ph)

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Fergie Chambers is heir to one of the biggest American family fortunes. He’s also a revolutionary with ‘actual bloodlust’ building a mysterious commune in Massachusetts. His neighbors are scared.

read more: https://archive.ph/L9LUT

The article is archived as I believe there is a policy here about direct links to reactionary source and I think this source is linked to Bari Weiss so I'm gonna guess that qualifies.

Article referenced in the recent The Russians podcast episode, article itself is meant to be a hit piece on Chambers, but still a wild read. If you can't stomache the article listen to the podcast episode.

Chambers' response to the article: https://nitter.net/jccfergie/status/1732398107847954909#m

This is not a personal endorsement of Chambers or his groups, just fascinating someone like this exists.

podcast ep link: https://podcastaddict.com/the-russians/episode/169752574

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Dude needs to start buying up electric plants and telecoms and staffing them with commies like the early councils in the Soviet Union did

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

Send him an email or something

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Doubt this guy does much beyond aesthetics tbh.

Like he converted to Islam recently apparently. But he does bail fund stuff I guess which isn't nothing

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago

As imperfect and aimless as this seems, this would probably be me if I had that kind of money.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

100%. This is definitely going to get broken up by the feds, though.

[-] Juice@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

Lol it got broken up already by the local city council. Disorganized goofiness. Seems like a legit comrade though

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

How do I ride this golden goose?

[-] tree@lemmy.zip 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I honestly wonder if they would fund someone here's project if they @d them in a compelling tweet, a quarter billion is an unimaginable amount of wealth. I don't know what strings would be attatched, but it seems like they are ready to throw down cash for stuff.

[-] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

Oh wow, one of these guys actually exists. Well good for him I guess. A core Marxist tenet is that the working class must emancipate themselves, so I wonder how this fits into that. Probably with a lot of weird dynamics. I guess he could give people a generous stipend to go salt?

[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

lol I think I know someone living there

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Ok you gotta keep going what's it like

[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

seemed cool, I think they like it

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Like is there anything specific going on

[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

I haven't seen/heard anything specific from them that's worth sharing here beyond that, sorry

[-] thisismyrealname@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

the article is almost certainly biased against him but i do get some Black Hammer vibes from this

[-] macerated_baby_presidents@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

endless and expensive wilderness therapy programs for troubled teens in Utah

oh jeez.

also please note that My Old School is actually about Bard College, where both Chambers and Steely Dan went to school. That's a "neat, alma mater mentioned" kind of remark not a "music is secretly talking about me" kind of remark. Weiss L

[-] CarsAndComrades@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

We've run across this guy and some of his followers online. I'm not 100% sure if there's something shady going on, but it sure seems like it. His friends seem really eager to create divisions between leftists. Either he's kind of an ineffective idiot, or a fed, or both.