Known Wall Street shill is more comforting as an evil to me, than "Happy Professor Next Door seeks national office, spews insidiously backward thinking. You'll never trust your neighbors again!"

@SaintWacko lol

@TimStone Kwanzaa is a holiday that was created by black nationalists but it was in response to the very real complete erasure of culture done by slavery.

@Yuuki who knew that slavery was bad

Who amongst'd've us could have foreseen the outcomes?

like how can you BE IN PR and think it was a good idea to do that?

> unfortunately I fell short of that standard when I was insensitive in speaking to my team about words that offend in comedy

you literally can say "the n word" and it is a drop in substitute and everyone will know what you mean

it's not hard to do

(inb4 this guy becomes a professional streamer)

I like that they're so committed to doing absolutely nothing about abuse that they've decided the solution is to make the rest of the internet just as bad

@GodEmperorDune that's one thing I don't really understand. Either I'm using the word in some context where it's acceptable because I'm quoting it or something like that, or I shouldn't use it at all. Censoring it doesn't make it any better in my opinion

(I kid, I kid...sort of, but quite a messed up move to not at least give an announcement in advance)

@TimStone this is honestly how it comes off

I refuse to believe they're this stupid

lol

@MadScientist the raw word has such a hateful history that using it conjures up all sorts of pain and trauma for black people. using "n word" avoids the visceral reaction

there is also a difference between like leaving it in a document from the time when it was commonly used (or a book like huckleberry finn) and bringing it up pretty much any time outside of that context should not be acceptable

@GodEmperorDune Replace all uses in Huckleberry Finn with that weird B emoji meme.

@GodEmperorDune Not bringing up the word at all is a valid option of course, I just don't see much use in slightly censoring it.

@quartata I'm pretty sure this is actually illegal

I sense a lawsuit

@Wipqozn depends entirely on the contract, but yeah, usually a 3 year contract would include some obligation to actually provide the service

@MadScientist the slight censoring shields listeners from the pain of it

I don't really know acquisition law but you'd think that when you acquire a company, you also acquire its existing contracts.

eyes narrow

@TimStone I feel like I should be entitled to one of those challenge coins.

I mean is Pruitt just congratulating himself for not making it worse, or?

@TimStone Ffs

@quartata twitter seems to be lagging hard for me today, maybe they didn't mean to turn it off but just borked something

@Ash what the fuck is wrong with people

@Ash .......

@Ash jfc. eevee, the author of that lolphp article, has had a recent flare up with these assholes in regards to her partner too

Just awful, awful people

@TimStone ugh, eevee is good people

Yeah, it reached a tipping point recently but it's something that's been going on for years, which makes this kind of behaviour all the more insane. Like the level of unhinged dedication is just unfathomable to me :/

good thing websites like twitter dot com take abuse and doxxing of people who are not government officials seriously

oh wait

no they don't

now i'm reading that fucking antman was at the head of this kiwi farms bullshit

@Ash ian miles cheong

he's one of the alt right leaders, was apparently a feminist back in the day but then jumped aboard gamergate for financial reasons. he has a lot of shitty takes and sends his followers to do terrible things

he tends to own goal himself on twitter often

He's an incredibly stupid gamergate guy that somehow has a blue check and may have a writing gig with Dangerous dot com still

I'd rather not call him Ant-Man because I like Paul Rudd.

His house is apparently always covered in ants

@Yuuki yeah thats why no hypen

@GodEmperorDune I'd still rather not call him Antman.

Because some people just don't respect the hyphen.

And he name searches on antman which is absolutely incredible

and commissions antman art

Like we're laughing at you my man

Not with

He's been on fox a couple times in his gamer chair to talk about how he's afraid of women, or something

I'm pretty sure that's actually pretty close to what his last appearance was

@Unionhawk the SJWs personally persecuting him for his gaming

Heh, I know someone on that list

Glad he signed on