I read it. I thought it was okay until I read the part about always smiling whenever you ask for something.

Yes, you would probably have to pick your (public) friends very wisely if you wanted to be the Vice President of Global Public Policy for one of the largest, most influential multinational corporations to ever exist. Especially as they edge closer and closer to gov't. regulation.

I hope all those women who read and raved about Sandberg’s book Lean-in are embarrassed they recommended it to their friends.

She got called out by the CEO saying “we got one of them”

It was prompted by the Netflix CEO pulling the “I have diverse friends” move in a tweet, and she responded by saying something to the effect of, I already get enough shit online, don’t @ me.

So I’ve been mulling this over a lot, and I think I figured out the three things that are the most wrong about Dave’s approach on this.

As someone who could probably quote Killing them Softly from start to finish, that Dave is gone. I love the “he is so busy yelling at people he forgot to be funny”  because that feels so accurate.

I think this article really does a great job covering Chappelle and predicting his future:

No one is telling you to ignore the differences so much as they are saying “the differences don’t make a trans-woman not a woman” (same for trans men)

Most people just want to see Netflix not give 20 million to people who are going to spew hateful bullshit. Some people want his special pulled but most people agree that its not helpful.

He just sounds similar to ignorant white folks when they get called out for racism but don't want to admit they're racist.  He literally sounds the exact same way. It's disappointing. 

Chappelle seems to be obsessed with trans people for some reason and I’d love to hear why that is. It’s insane that he can’t stfu about trans people. This has been going on for years with him.

I told people he was only going to double down and play the victim. He’s Dennis Miller now. He won’t learn and he won’t grow unless he’s forced to by something serious and by “serious” I mean on the level of Richard Pryor setting himself on fire.

It makes him sound petty and small, both in this swipe at Gadsby and his “I’ll only meet with you if you meet all of my demands” bullshit.

So I was not happy with Dave’s words in his special... but I also wasn’t calling for his show to be canceled. Then Ted Sarandos decided to open his smug fucking mouth and start making declaratives about what is and isn’t hurtful for everyone, so I canceled my Netflix subscription and cited Ted’s comments.

I’ve seen jokes about how the sandworms look like an anus. I think that misses the point, when to me the gaping maw looks exactly like an iris and a pupil. Looking into the maw of a sandworm is literally the void gazing back.

Almost 30 years old... You might want to sit down for this...

Admittedly unions in other sectors probably don’t have the same sorts of liability, but if you make it so that unions that defend people who steal money or embezzle are liable to repay that money, it would have a chilling effect on the power of unions to protect people from wrongful terminations.

Again, until the cost of defending these ‘officers’ comes out of *UNION* coffers, the incentive structure is completely misaligned with good public service. Fired officers don’t pay union dues anymore. Hired ones do. The incentive is to keep every officer working, no matter how awful they are, because the awful ones…