Posted on 01/12/2019 9:01:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Can you imagine how scary it would be to live in a world where your livelihood depended on having the correct politics? Its the sort of thing you might expect of totalitarian regimes Baathist Iraq under Saddam Hussain; everywhere that has ever tried communism; increasingly, Xis panopticon China but definitely not of any liberal democracy in the 21st century.
That dystopian future, though, may be much closer than you think. I only properly appreciated this recently when the podcast Ive been doing for the last few years was mysteriously dropped by my regular employer, forcing me to seek funding sources from elsewhere.
If I were impeccably progressive, this would be a doddle. I could monetize my content through ads on YouTube, I could crowdfund donations through Patreon, I could promote my work with regular appearances on CNN. But if youre snarky and irreverent and you wont play the virtue-signaling game then your options are much more limited. Any deviation from the path of woke righteousness even just a misjudged joke or a remark taken out of context can get you branded a far right extremist and your audience wont be allowed to pay you even if they want to.
This is what happened last month to the blogger/vidcaster Carl Benjamin aka Sargon of Akkad whose long-form meditations on everything from Brexit and feminism to Islam and video game politics have won him nearly 900,000 subscribers on YouTube. Benjamins primary funding source was Patreon, a website which enables donors to support projects they love with monthly contributions. But when one of Benjamins critics unearthed some audio of intemperate remarks hed made in the course of an obscure interview where hed been defending himself against neo-Nazis, Patreon de-platformed him for breaching its terms of service.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.us ...
Pinko historians and so-called journalists have had an actual crush on the Soviet Union/Russia for the last 70+ years....until it was decided to manufacture a tall tale about Trump collusion with Russia. Its funny they still have even a smattering of credibility.
Has this writer heard of Hollywood? If you're not a flaming LGBT leftist in Hollyweird; your career just stalled unless you're rich enough and famous enough to bypass the asswipes of that freak town.
Conservatives won't fight for it. They play the "Muh private corporashun" card and shrug their shoulders, mostly out of feeble ignorance. I'd bet 75% of the active posters here have never heard of Patreon.
Patreon, now a half billion dollar company, was started by a musician in San Francisco (Pomplamoose) as a way for him and his singer girlfriend to get paid for the quirky videos they put together. Jack Conte and his company personifies the worst example of the archetypical privileged, white, Bay Area tech zillionaire leftist determined to change the world.
The squeezing is cyclical. Visa and MasterCard are squeezed by the same angry crowds of Leftists who crowdfund Patreon. Again, conservatives are feebly shrugging their shoulders and totally failing to comprehend what is happening here.
You Cannot Trust Patreon (#PatreonPurge 1)
The start of the video sets the stage for the portion beginning at ~ 7:10 that addresses the 'sins of Sargon'.
...be warned that at 18:06 until the end you will be treated to the pontificating hubris of Tim Cook.
If Trump should happen to lose in 2020 that will bring about the worst nightmare for the leftists. He will then move all-in for his agenda and we will eventually see Trump Bank, Trump Net, Trumppal, TrumpFace and many others. I am sad because I am in my 70s and will not be around for the chaos and fun.
I agree completely.
I think there is a difference between boycotting the extremist ideology of a enemy state in position of influence in our country and that of half the political spectrum.
At this point those communist infiltrators have been so successful using our tax dollars and schools to raise children in the murderous ideology that destroyed their own countries that they could hardly be boycotted at all being nearly half the democratic party.
Its a shame they can’t afford the same respect for free speech that was given to them to their own opposition voices.
This is a very scary situation in all honesty fascism is coming to america and it came from the leftist take over of our schools.
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