@MoonMetropolis Court Document Highlights

I was enrolled in college classes at the time of my arrest, but I was taking most of my classes online. There was only one class that I showed up for in person, and, in typical fashion, I didn't talk to anyone there and waited until everyone had left to ask the teacher anything. I was trying to take as many classes online as I possibly could so that I wouldn't have to be around other people IRL. I don't enjoy the company of other people. In fact, I really can't stand being around other people. If that makes me a loser, then so be it. I'd much rather be a loser than force myself to do things that I really hate doing.

I've written extensively about my case and my online activities, most notably in my 2018 article "First Public Statement From Joshua Goldberg" published from prison. I've also spoken extensively about it in interviews, such as my interview with the podcast @TheGrillcast from a few months ago and my 2022 interview with Robert Rosso (who was formerly on the unit with me at Terre Haute FCI) - an interview that was conducted while I was still in prison, over the phone. French independent filmmaker Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis is currently making a documentary about me, while BBC journ*list Mike Wendling is currently making a podcast series about me and former Vice writer Tess Owen is currently writing an article about me.

I'll quote you the closing addendum from my 2022 article "I Am Michael Slay: The Incredibly Strange, Incredibly True Story of How Someone With the Last Name Goldberg Became a Writer on the Most Popular Neo-Nazi Website":

ADDENDUM: It dawned on me after I wrote this article that, in all of my snide, sardonic, saturnine snickering and snarking, I, at times, come across like a pompous, arrogant, unctuous jackass with absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever who proudly wears the "KING OF TROLLS" title as some kind of badge of honor. As such, I would like to make this explicitly clear: there is absolutely no justification for any of the senseless, destructive, and antisocial activities that I was engaging in online. Andrew Anglin himself described me as "the most prolific troll to date", but rest assured that I do not take any pride whatsoever in that. To the contrary, it's a black mark of shame that will dog me for the rest of my life, and it's something that I hope I will be able to move past in the coming years. Even if I never really intended for anyone to actually get hurt as a result of my online mischief, the simple fact of the matter is that my profoundly foolish and reckless online actions very well could have resulted in serious damage being done to real people, and it is very fortunate that I was arrested before my online shitposting inadvertently spilled over into real life. While it goes without saying that I will never apologize to any of the people talked about in this particular article (and I will certainly never apologize to the Australian government either), I do offer my sincerest apologies to the organizers of the Kansas City Stairclimb, who I caused a great deal of emotional distress to with the bogus jihadist plot that lead to my arrest (much more about that phony terror plot in the public statement that I previously published), and I also offer my sincerest apologies to any other innocent people who I caused mental turmoil to with my incredibly stupid, vile, obnoxious, and, at times, even downright monstrous online actions. If you are someone who I have hurt in the past — and you're not rancid, scrofulous, scum-sucking subhuman plankton like Andrew Anglin — then I am truly sorry, and I earnestly hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive me. Most people on the autism spectrum tend to use their autism as an unlimited "get away with everything free" card, but not me. I accept full responsibility for my actions, and having autism provides absolutely no excuse for anything that I did. Thankfully, my thoughtless and fatuous actions in cyberspace never actually resulted in anyone getting tangibly hurt in real life, but they very well could have. Completely engulfed in the extremely negative and deleterious world of internet trolling, I showed absolutely no concern for how starting random online arson fires might actually result in real people getting hurt for real, and many of my online actions paint me as, as Anglin put it, "an unhinged psychopath". That isn't who I really am, and that certainly isn't something that I take pride in — quite the opposite, in fact. As such, I just want to make that as crystal clear as I possibly can.

Again, I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have for me.

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