Michael Gloss, 21, was the son of CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Julianne Gallina Gloss, and Iraq war veteran Larry Gloss.

Before arriving in Russia on August 13, 2023, Gloss was travelling around Europe. On his Vkontakte page bio, he wrote: “I ran away from home (and) traveled the world. I hate fascism.”

On April 4, 2024, he was killed, likely during a Russian offensive near Bakhmut, however, his burial in the U.S. did not take place until December 2024, Important Stories reports.

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    Wait, what? He hates fascism, so he went to Russia… 🤨 He must be another idiot/tankie who can’t look in the mirror, almost all of Russia is like that, they are fascists themselves, they see nazis and fascists everywhere, but not in the mirror.

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    What a fuckin weird story, it makes it sound like he was a peace loving hippie who wanted to make the world a better place, then smoked one bong hit too hard and ended up doing a complete 180, joining the fascist fuckheads and died making the world worse off

    Unless he visited Russia (stupidly, not the first to do so nor the last), they figured out who his parents were and forced him on the front line somehow? blackmail?

    This definitely the most odd story I’ve read so far

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      I know too many peace loving hippies that turned to vote far right after covid.

      I blame internal issues but mainly foreign disinformation campaigns.

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        My theory is that people who mix psychedelics with social media end up deep in the far-right propaganda engine.

        Not that Elon was ever a good guy, but we can plainly see what Ketamine + Twitter does to a person.

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          we can plainly see what Ketamine + Twitter does to a person.

          I know someone in this boat. Was trying K as a therapeutic, doctor-monitored, etc. for severe anxiety and depression. As far as I know he never abused it… but he also ended up deeper in the Twitter hole afterwards. The neuroplasticity is a double edged sword, it seems.

          We are no longer on speaking terms after he tripled-down on being a bigot.

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          Na that fucker was an apartheid fascist the moment he was born if you look at his family. But that doesn’t diminish your point of drugs and social media making it worse

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            You know that somebody is total shit when I say “he was never good”, and the pushback is that my words weren’t strong enough lol.

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              Very true the shit he did to USAID just because they were investigating him for his meddling in the Ukraine war with starlink is unforgivable. Corruption at its peak.

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    It sound like he was trying to get Russian citizenship through military service. Then they sent him to Bakhmut to die with 100,000 other recruits. Number made up, but probably not that far off.

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    What a read.

    My bet is he got hooked on life wrecking tier drugs and got lured into service by the Russian authorities with the promise of more drugs.

    His 180 came way too fast for a simple change of heart.

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    That’s fucked up. It sounds exactly like he smoked one bong hit too many and went on his own Qanon trip.