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staticman
Sep 12, 2008

Be gay
Death to America
Suck my dick Israel
Mess with Texas
and remember to lmao
https://twitter.com/SnarlakAttack/status/1090539247860248576
https://twitter.com/SnarlakAttack/status/1090539252834721792

Edit: lol gab meltdown

https://twitter.com/MichaelEHayden/status/1090721622569484288
https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/1090753804482433024
https://twitter.com/DiddlyDonger/status/1090553391229558784

staticman has issued a correction as of 01:03 on Jan 31, 2019

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Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
https://twitter.com/chris_damyen/status/1090291940598247424

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
I guess you could say they

Walkedaway#

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


There's 11 black people in the front rows and all the others are blocked by white people.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

lolll not even young white people, but the same crusty boomer white people who show up to Trump rallies.

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004


Had a fun convo with a gab user the other day who said that the only reason gab was infested with nazis (something they surprisingly didn't try to deny) was only due to the fact that there weren't enough REAL conservatives to run them off the site. And also that conservatives don't think they're problematic enough to do anything about.

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
https://twitter.com/alex_zee/status/1090666826533560321

:rolleyes:

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

between neo-nazis and measles, portland seems to be a lovely place to live in right now

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



*Nazis repeatedly overrun the streets of Portland*

Portland city council, six months later: “perhaps someone should say something”

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Data Graham posted:

*Nazis repeatedly overrun the streets of Portland*

Portland city council, six months later: “perhaps someone should say something”

they are tho lol, they're saying, "welcome to Portland! can we give you a lift anywhere?"

Tetrabor
Oct 14, 2018

Eight points of contact at all times!

get that OUT of my face posted:

between neo-nazis and measles, portland seems to be a lovely place to live in right now

It's a red state controlled by two major blue cities, it's also filled with a very homogeneous culture/race that lends well to Nazis and the anti-vaxxer trend.

I'm more surprised that these alt-right groups haven't established Redding, CA as their home base, that place is a cesspool filled with racist fucks. I couldn't go to any restaurants without conspiracy-nuts constantly unloading their theories on me because I wore a Veteran hat.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1090800425106849792
https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576

romanowski
Nov 10, 2012


https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1090825474765410304?s=20

scary ghost dog
Aug 5, 2007

actually was thinking this the other day

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
im surprised gab has lasted this long. i am astounded any idiot thought aping twitter's model was a smart idea when it took twitter 10 years to hit its first profitable quarter

are there any details on what law is allowing it to continue limping along?

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
lol at the nazis who kept using it after the FBI took their servers

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

cumshitter posted:

im surprised gab has lasted this long. i am astounded any idiot thought aping twitter's model was a smart idea when it took twitter 10 years to hit its first profitable quarter

are there any details on what law is allowing it to continue limping along?
the SPLC article had details but i'm not an expert on this stuff

quote:

The JOBS Act of 2012 was designed to help startup companies use crowdfunding to raise up to $1.07 million a year. The law has allowed Gab’s parent company, Gab AI, Inc., to raise $2 million since 2017 from two crowdfunding rounds handled by StartEngine Crowdfunding, Inc., a Los Angeles securities brokerage firm that helps companies prepare regulatory filings and sell investment shares to the public.

A handful of investors – 1,000 in 2017 and 1,900 in 2018 – purchased $1 million of highly speculative securities in Gab through StartEngine, providing the company enough capital to allow it to continue to operate.

Revenue has otherwise been scarce. Payment processors like PayPal and Stripe dropped Gab in the aftermath of the Oct. 27, 2018, terror attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue, causing a 90 percent drop in subscription revenue from premium services, Gab stated in a Dec. 19 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.

The company was relying on snail mail and cryptocurrency to sell premium subscription services, but announced on Tuesday it formed a relationship with an obscure company called 2nd Amendment Processing to help with future credit card payments.

StartEngine, meanwhile, has earned $450,000 in fees from Gab in the last two years by helping the site raise money – including signing a $200,000 contract with Gab in December ­­– two months after the synagogue shooting.

Gab CEO Andrew Torba is using a portion of the crowdfunding money to prepare two additional public offerings of Gab stock worth up to $20 million. Gab is tapping another JOBS Act provision that allows companies to sell up to $50 million worth of speculative securities per year at a far lower expense than a traditional Initial Public Offering that can cost millions of dollars in legal, accounting and marketing fees.

Federal regulators, however, have not approved Gab’s two $10 million offerings filed under SEC Regulation A, preventing the company from moving forward with the stock sales. StartEngine also prepared and filed Gab’s SEC Regulation A offering memorandums.

One of the Regulation A offerings has been pending before the SEC for a year, raising questions of whether it will ever be approved. SEC spokesman John Nester declined to comment on the standards used to determine whether or not to approve the offerings. Two private investment analysts contacted by Hatewatch say the SEC has no time limit to make a decision but the fact an offering has not been approved after a year suggests the SEC has concerns about allowing the sale to go forward.

Without access to private investors, Gab’s financial outlook is uncertain. Gab has lost more than $350,000 since it began operations in August 2016 through June 30, 2018. Gab can seek a third $1 million crowdfunding round in September, and given the speed at which the previous crowdfunding rounds were fully funded, the company may continue to survive on yearly injections of capital from a relatively small number of investors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startups_Act

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
that's so weird. startup funding in the form of selling high-risk speculative securities

such as gab lmao

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

quote:

AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, who spent six months lobbying for JOBS Act reforms,[15] recalls:

It ended up being a giant dog's breakfast of different bills combined together, and then some genius, probably some congressional staffer, said "How are we gonna get this thing to pass? Oh-- let's say it has something to do with jobs. Jumpstarting Our Business Startups! JOBS, JOBS!" And then, what congressperson can vote against something called the JOBS Act? It was a miracle.
jobs jobs jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yfArN-e2OU&t=27s

Beowulfs_Ghost
Nov 6, 2009

Tetrabor posted:

It's a red state controlled by two major blue cities, it's also filled with a very homogeneous culture/race that lends well to Nazis and the anti-vaxxer trend.

It is more a feature of Americans thinking of Oregon as some terra nullius, a place with no culture, where they can bring there crazy ideas and plant a flag.

The same reason a half Japanese and a Samoan came here to start a white supremacist movement, is the same reason anti-vaxxers come here, and the same reason all the restaurants are staffed with LGBTQ kids from the midwest.


From the point that Astoria was founded as a freewheeling capitalist utopia, Oregon history has been one crazy story after another. No sooner would one group come through with a dream of WASP homeland, then some one else would bring Chinese, Basque, Japanese , African workers in tow with dreams of riches.


If I was to pick a single thing that gives nazi types such free reign, at least in the last 40 years I've live here, it is that the Republicans here have a big libertarian / mind your own business streak that turns a blind eye to it. Same thing a few years back that allowed some Christian cult to let kids die because they believed more in prayer than medicine. So many people here are so interested in their private utopia, they don't care that the utopia next door is killing people.

It is the same mechanism that let the Rajneesees get so far out of hand. And that was in the really conservative half of the state.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
yeah i'm trying to compare that to texas which has its nazi problem for sure but it seems different. conservatives in the lone star state seem big on Maintaining Social Order and get uncomfortable with people causing a big scene in public. like, don't they know there are children present!?

people pay attention to their neighbors and watch them, and then talk about them behind their backs. did you see so-and-so flip out on the front lawn? the kids next door SAW IT.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/drfeelgood3525/status/1090091418247323648?s=19

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde

rise up

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Beowulfs_Ghost posted:

It is more a feature of Americans thinking of Oregon as some terra nullius, a place with no culture, where they can bring there crazy ideas and plant a flag.

The same reason a half Japanese and a Samoan came here to start a white supremacist movement, is the same reason anti-vaxxers come here, and the same reason all the restaurants are staffed with LGBTQ kids from the midwest.


From the point that Astoria was founded as a freewheeling capitalist utopia, Oregon history has been one crazy story after another. No sooner would one group come through with a dream of WASP homeland, then some one else would bring Chinese, Basque, Japanese , African workers in tow with dreams of riches.


If I was to pick a single thing that gives nazi types such free reign, at least in the last 40 years I've live here, it is that the Republicans here have a big libertarian / mind your own business streak that turns a blind eye to it. Same thing a few years back that allowed some Christian cult to let kids die because they believed more in prayer than medicine. So many people here are so interested in their private utopia, they don't care that the utopia next door is killing people.

It is the same mechanism that let the Rajneesees get so far out of hand. And that was in the really conservative half of the state.

Gravity Falls is starting to make a lot of sense. Oregon sounds like a low-key Florida.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Does he work for the ACLU?

cargo cult
Aug 28, 2008

by Reene
so were the people who lit up those cops nazis

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Haven't seen anything in months about Lauren Southern, is she still active in chudverse?

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋




Wonder how many jobs Gab represents

One? Two?

Gravy Jones
Sep 13, 2003

I am not on your side

LOL this poor sap is like quadroupling down on this stuff and I actually feel a little bad for him bacause he's clearly too dumb to understand why people have an issue with what he's saying. But only a little.

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

It's exactly this idiotic, waffling "but both sides!" poo poo that empowers fuckgarbage like Trump.

Nazis have already shown what they will do. They must be stopped at any cost.

Conspiratiorist
Nov 12, 2015

17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth sixth some day

Equeen posted:

I don't think Pewdiepie is a full-blown nazi, but it is annoying how other youtubers coddle him because he has the most subscribers.

Julius Goat's quote doesn't quite apply here, but it really doesn't matter what he actually privately believes in when, as someone else mentioned, what he's doing is exposing a billion children to alt-right ideology and passing it off as hip edgy jokes, courting the controversy for more views, then using his fanbase as a cudgel against detractors.

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
when BMcD mentioned the wall earlier i posted etrump should just claim the wall is being built and his followers would buy it. i think hes trying to do that today but its hard to tell

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090946116496117760
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090947003868213248
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090963161942032385

some real schrodinger wall poo poo

Morphix
May 21, 2003

by Reene
The Wall has always been part of Oceania.

Equeen
Oct 29, 2011

Pole dance~
Just to clarify my point, I absolutely think Pewdiepie is a dumb piece of poo poo, I was just expressing my frustration of other youtubers defending him from the slightest bit of criticism.

These are the same creators who have no problem calling out lovely prank channels and the Paul brothers' irresponsible behavior, but got real quiet when PDP gave a shout out to a gross egdelord shilling the Nazi conspiracy of Heather Heyer dying from a heart attack.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Reclines Obesily posted:

when BMcD mentioned the wall earlier i posted etrump should just claim the wall is being built and his followers would buy it. i think hes trying to do that today but its hard to tell

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090946116496117760
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090947003868213248
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090963161942032385

some real schrodinger wall poo poo

Christ, seeing his tweets about WALL make me want to create a parody song from Ren and Stimpy’s LOG! song, but Ren and Stimpy didn’t do anything to deserve that

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

gschmidl posted:

It's exactly this idiotic, waffling "but both sides!" poo poo that empowers fuckgarbage like Trump.

Nazis have already shown what they will do. They must be stopped at any cost.

Centrists are worse than Nazis. There is nothing more dangerous than an "ally" who would turn on you the moment the winds change. Anybody who takes the bold stance of "maybe both sides are right/wrong???" between Nazis and non-Nazis is just a Nazi without the cajones to admit it.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010


What tactical skill?

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Reclines Obesily posted:

when BMcD mentioned the wall earlier i posted etrump should just claim the wall is being built and his followers would buy it. i think hes trying to do that today but its hard to tell

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090946116496117760
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090947003868213248
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090963161942032385

some real schrodinger wall poo poo

maybe hes trying to get out of having to shut down the government again like he promised

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Icon Of Sin posted:

Christ, seeing his tweets about WALL make me want to create a parody song from Ren and Stimpy’s LOG! song, but Ren and Stimpy didn’t do anything to deserve that
Ren & Stimpy's creator (John Kricfalusi) is a paedo sex pest IRL.

WALL news reminds me of the wise Senator who, when it was clear early on that the Vietnam War was sliding towards a quagmire, suggested that the United States just "declare victory and go home".

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Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



FMguru posted:

Ren & Stimpy's creator (John Kricfalusi) is a paedo sex pest IRL.

goddamnit :( can we put these guys at the head of the line for the guillotine?

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