"Substack CEO Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals.""
Given another opportunity to answer correctly by the interviewer, “You know this is a very bad response to this question, right? You’re aware that you’ve blundered into this. You should just say no. And I’m wondering what’s keeping you from just saying no,"
He declined.
So, fuck him. And fuck his site.
I'll NEVER use Substack. #BlackMastodon
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Substack’s CEO Would Rather Not Think About the Racist Stuff. Okay?
Substack chief Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals."Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Biped Earthling • • •These tech lords aren't stupid people.
Somewhere in their evolution as technology leaders, they've developed the rather oddly childish concept that libertarianism isn't fascistic.
Or maybe it's just the source of their VC funding that creates this refusal to know. Middle Eastern oil kleptocrats aren't known for their flexibility on bigotry. Neither are #KochNetwork Republican billionaire donors.
Huntn00
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •William Hughes
in reply to Huntn00 • • •Are Rich People Okay? – SOME MORE NEWS
YouTubeNicole Parsons
in reply to William Hughes • • •Not all sociopaths end up in prison.
Many end up as CEO and director of the board
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Psychopathic politicians can be exposed before their names get on the ballot
Charlie Smith (Georgia Straight)kurtsh
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •What Nicole said. Not sure wealth itself is the cause. I know many obscenely wealthy people that are kind & decent. The question I ask is how did they get that rich.
For example, I commonly run into former athletes that became businessmen & they're often total assholes leaning on the same tools that they used in competitive sports.
- If you're not 1st, you're last
- I take what I want
- Fuck anyone that gets in my way
- For me to win, you need to lose
Biped Earthling
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in reply to Biped Earthling • • •Biped Earthling
in reply to TomasHradcky • • •What "ruthless past" has Bill Gates?
I must have missed it.
William Hughes
in reply to Biped Earthling • • •I'd recommend #Microserfs it's pretty damning.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micros…
novel by Douglas Coupland
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Biped Earthling
in reply to William Hughes • • •I read the book when it came out.
Not impressed.
Not at all.
All books written from those perspectives were from people who weren't insiders, didn't actually know insiders, were anonymous quotes from disgruntled MS staffers, gripes from hapless would-be rivals, and anecdotal wink-wink/nod-nod tabloid fare.
Oh, also mix in vocal minority open source adherents who have outed themselves as being more evil than Microsoft was ever purported to be.
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BillG's crimes was that he was hyper-competitive.
That's not a sin; neither a crime.
Huntn00
in reply to Biped Earthling • • •Biped Earthling
in reply to Huntn00 • • •They d have a lot of money, enugh for several lifetimes.
That, is true.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Biped Earthling • • •Short answer? It's complicated.
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio etc. made a lot of money, sometimes through ruthless capitalism, yet now seem to be giving their money to worthwhile causes like ending guinea worm disease & malaria. There are worse ways to make amends.
On the other hand, GOP billionaires like Barre Seid, Charles Koch, Harlan Crow, Stephen Schwarzman, Ken Griffin, Kelcy Warren, & Tim Dunn are using their fake ...
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...philanthropy to end democracy & fry the planet.
Seid's $1.6 billion in tax evasion ended the civil rights of 167 million American women. Schwarzman & Crow's cash dehoused millions through high housing costs & RealPage. Warren & Tim Dunn's cash is creating a theocratic petro-state despot.
Charles Koch is leaving a $5 billion bequest to finish converting American constitutional democracy into fossil fuel funded fascism.
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Checks & Imbalances: Inside Charles Koch’s Latest Wealth Transfer
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in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Why do these phony"foundations" even exist as tax-exempt entities? They are scams to avoid taxes for the ultra wealthy while pushing a sick and destructive ideology. The perversion is that these billionaires are so obsessed with not paying any tax, they will do anything to avoid them even after death. Psychos.
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in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Huntn00 • • •People like Charles Koch are prepared to risk the extinction of the human species to runaway climate change.
A tipping point could happen with a mass volcanic eruption, or nuclear war, combined with climate change could render the planet uninhabitable for human civilization.
These GOP megadonors are playing with the lives of billions of people.
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Siberian Volcanic Eruptions Triggered End-Permian Mass Extinction, New Study Confirms | Sci.News
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Biped Earthling
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 Don't forget the nutter who gave almost $2 billion to the Federalist society to build the current corrupt crop of Hez'Bollah Supremes..
They actually hate America.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Biped Earthling • • •The rich have always hated & feared democracy.
The global rich have often been collaborators with the enemies of democracy.
In the prelude to WW2, the wealthy & aristocratic promoted fascism. They are doing it again.
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time.com/5414055/american-nazi…
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The American Billionaires Who Fell In Love With Fascism Are Not the First
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in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Biped Earthling • • •Barre Seid $1.6 billion bought the overturn of Roe vs Wade.
That public corruption of the Supreme Court ended the civil rights of 167 million American women.
And there's more to come...
nytimes.com/2024/09/18/opinion…
axios.com/2024/09/12/leonard-l…
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Billionaire Barre Seid Helped Overturn Roe | Washington Spectator
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in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Nicole Parsons
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Leonard Leo just has forehead wrinkles from puzzling out ways to take away people's civil rights to benefit fascist billionaires.
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The billionaires want to erase 50 years of progress to enrich themselves.
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The Republican party remains the party of denying women human rights
Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)🍥SarahBurnout🍥
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to 🍥SarahBurnout🍥 • • •@homelessjun
I access all pay walled material through my public library. Mine uses PressReader.
You can also copy/paste the link with a prefix to several work arounds
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How to Access News Articles for Free: 12 Paywall Bypasses
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Biped Earthling
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @homelessjun Most of the time, posting the article's headlines shows you several no-paywall links.
Caveat emptor, though: you ONLY want to click on trusted sites.
Steve Dallape ☑️ 🌎
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •PaywallHub | Remove paywalls for free.
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