“when the progress comes on the terms of the wealthiest men in history, like Gates, we have to assume that progress benefits the wealthy more than anyone else.”

“America has to stop looking for heroes in its Bill Gates figures and start assuming they’re all Jeffery Epsteins.”

I guess there are many paths that Bill Gates could take. Or Jeff Bezos. Or Warren Buffet. Or Musk. They could hoard most of (or all of) their wealth and pass it on to their children and spouses/girlfriends. They could fund a new building at a famous university or hospital so that they can slap their family moniker on…

Gates does not have an “ongoing” friendship with Epstein, because Epstein is dead. Gates also, according to the article you linked to, cut off personal contact with Epstein in 2014, never entered into business with him despite Epstein’s repeated pitches, and stopped allowing his employees to entertain those pitches in…

People would do well to remember that the skill/personality set that it takes to build great wealth in the American capitalist system is to a large extent antithetical to the skill/personality that gives it all away. So to an extent, I’m not surprised to see how much trouble Jezebel, but leftist sites in general, tend…

Things are changing though!

I feel like a full 90% of the Jezebel pieces I read are just introductions to a larger piece that doesn’t exist. The conclusion seems to be that the division between suburbs and city are arbitrary and invented, which I can get behind, but is the sex-obsessed suburban woman really a myth then ?

They won’t go to any competitions with his present? That’s one less team for the others to deal with. Not to mention not needing to walk on glass when talking. Sounds like a win to me. 

there is absolutely no quick way to answer this like at all. at least with Hong Kong you can google all the unrest they had in 2019. for taiwan the extremely quick and dirty reason is china considers taiwan as apart of its state. as far as they’re concerned there IS NO taiwan at all. its why when taiwan participates…

Let them boycott. Blizzard already blinked before and suffered the consequences.  I hate to see Blizzard bowing down to CCP again, especially when it’s not even the Chinese government that’s making the demand, so why self-censor?  Just let them lose the matches, Blizzard have been re-broadcasting old matches on stream…

So fucking tired of Chinese entities throwing a tantrum about what China is defined as and also expecting anyone else to do something about those tantrums.

Of course, since everyone capitulates it’s a strategy that works which really sucks and we as consumers seem to have absolutely no say in this catering to a…

I’d say its definitely much less overwhelming than the other platforms where there are just so many people - and bots, for sure. If you are kind of artsy or do something slightly unusual for a living, it offers a pre-selection process that can be helpful. I met my current partner there, and everyone I interacted with…

You know your argument is right when you have to silence everyone who disagrees with you.

Damn I’d love to justify my love for Airplane! and to describe it as a tool to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted”, but the sad truth is that I laugh at dumb shit.

I don’t think comedy has ever been that. Instead it’s about what’s funny.

Pretty sure the only thing SNL was built on was piles of cocaine

If you’re going to suck his dick at least know where it’s been, and where it hasn’t.

He did NOT create PayPal. That is easily googleable.

He BOUGHT Solar City (and pretty much destroyed it) from his cousins. He talks about it being a huge mistake, both his solar roof idea and buying the company. It’s cost him billions,…

He sort of does, but he has a hit song that I know despite not being on TikTok, so I feel like he’s gone beyond that realm.

I’m not sure that SNL is much built on diversity and tolerance (how many nonwhite cast members did they have in their first 20 years on the air?), but I get your point. Though I also doubt it would be a real career-killer to sit it out. I think the more likely scenario is that with a 20-person cast, it’s probably…

L. Ron Musk is the god-emperor of the neckbeards, and for a good reason. He’s everything that self-declared weird smart kid wishes to be.