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Russia sends a clear message to the neoclowns: whatever you start in the Ukraine, we will finish:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that any attempts to start a new military conflict in Ukraine’s war-torn east could end up destroying Ukraine, the TASS news agency reported.
Translation: Knock it off, neoclowns, or we’ll take the whole of the Ukraine, even though we don’t want it.
Or at least they’re going to try. Patreon’s lawyers are now running around making ludicrous threats about how they are going to overturn California’s consumer protection laws, Patreon’s own Terms of Use, and the JAMS arbitration rules by shrieking very loudly about how unfair it is for Patreon’s users to make it live up to the terms of its own contract. It’s a bold move, Cotton, and it’s obviously inspired by Patreon’s hope to go public before the markets crash.
When is the Patreon IPO date?
The official date for the Patreon IPO has yet to be announced, but it will become public information once Patreon publicizes their paperwork with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). As of February, they maintained a confidential filing to keep investors out of the loop for as long as possible. While it sounds malicious, it’s quite common—particularly during an era of extreme unpredictability in the market and economy alike.
What investors need to know ahead of the Patreon IPO
Regardless of what method the company uses to get to market, investors ought to act with caution and ensure they do adequate research before putting money into any company or security. This is called doing your due diligence, and it is truly up to every individual investor to do so.
While a direct listing may seem “easier” to access for retail investors when compared to a traditional IPO, that doesn’t mean that it makes it a guaranteed better investment than other companies.
In regards to Patreon, the platform has seen extensive growth over the past years, and has brought on plenty of new talent to the platform as well. Their loyalty lies with the content creators that call Patreon home, as evidenced by their recent hire of Joe Budden as head of creator equity. In this role, Budden will act as a liaison of sorts between the platform and creators. It shows that Patreon is committed to a just corporate structure that benefits their creators rather than solely uplifting the executive chairs.
You might be wondering what the difference between Patreon and a GoFundMe-type platform is. Honestly, it’s a valid question whether or not you’re an investor.
Patreon’s market niche lies within their offering of month-to-month subscription services, much like a cable television subscription or other monthly subscription boxes that have gained in popularity as of late. Whereas a GoFundMe centers largely around a one-time donation, Patreon gives fans the opportunity to receive exclusive content for a monthly premium. Exclusive, a word that is usually just for show, holds substantial value on Patreon.
Creators post content that their fans won’t be able to find anywhere else, things like exclusive podcast episodes, tutorials, or access to merchandise. This adds another layer to Patreon’s appeal for both creators and fans alike.
Investors would have to be totally crazy to buy into Patreon’s IPO, especially at the obvious peak of the financial bubble. A lot of that “content that their fans won’t be able to find anywhere else” is adult content that very often crosses the line into illegal content. As of March 31, 24 percent of Patreon’s revenue is derived from NSFW content, more than half of which is NSFW games, comics, and animation. These NSFW games are some of Patreon’s top creators, bringing in as much as $98,500 in monthly revenue while blatantly violating the fake “zero tolerance” policy that supposedly bans “rape, incest, and bestiality”.
8797 Adult Drawing
8381 Adult Cosplay
6821 Adult Other
5130 Adult Comics
4164 Adult Games
3329 Adult Writing
2507 Adult Photography
1810 Adult Animation
1618 Adult Podcasts
_805 Adult Music
_224 Adult Dance & Theater
__99 Adult Magazine
__76 Adult Crafts
In other words, a not-inconsiderable portion of the exclusive content they are advertising can’t be found anywhere else can’t be found anywhere else because it is illegal. And the very worst stuff is what brings in the most money. Innocuous-sounding “games” like “Summertime Saga” and “Wild Life” go well beyond what you likely imagine NSFW game content to be, while other more openly dire creations are even worse than they sound. We’re not talking about Grand Theft Auto or Doom here, and despite being less than one-tenth of the NSFW creators, these obscene so-called games bring in about one-third of the aforementioned $6 million every month for the Filth Factory.
In addition to attempting to keep the full extent of their NSFW content under wraps, the reason Patreon is attempting to keep investors out of the loop is because the Filth Factory doesn’t want to let them know how much investor money has been blown on totally unnecessary litigation expenses, which based on the lawyer’s rants could already be rapidly approaching their entire annual net revenue for 2020. Now, imagine what would have happened if Sargon and all the others who were deplatformed had decided to stand up for their rights for once rather than whining and crying on the sympathy circuit.
Patreon wrongly thought that the Bears were afraid of court and tried to use it to get them out of arbitration. Now they’re doing precisely the opposite by trying to keep the Bears in arbitration, out of court, and off the public record. If you think about it, it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out their motivation.
Clay Travis is right… although the literal Communists in China actually permit more freedom of expression than the converged US tech corporations do:
Facebook? Or communist China? You tell us the difference. Because anymore, it’s hard to tell if there is one — especially after Facebook refused to allow Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law to post an interview with the former president.
That’s right. Lara Trump wanted to post something to Facebook. The social media giant said no. And its lone reason was entirely based on the fact the post involved Donald Trump.
“This is outlandish,” said OutKick founder Clay Travis. “And it’s crazy to me how many members of the blue-checkmark brigade are cheering blatant censorship. What’s happened in America — and I don’t think most people have recognized this, or it certainly hasn’t been talked about in a big way — is that China has the Great Wall of China for the Internet, right? They filter what people in China are able to see, the government does, in an effort to promote nationalism and respect for their country.”
In other words, China does not have a “free and open” Internet, Clay adds. And guess what? Neither does Big Tech in America.
The problem is that “free and open”, which is a form of “freedom of expression” was always a lie put forth by the 19th century Prometheans who wanted to blaspheme against Jesus Christ and the living God. One doesn’t need “freedom of thought”, one literally has complete freedom of thought.
Expression and speech, on the other hand, have always been restricted. That’s why we have concepts such as “blasphemy”, “slander”, and “lese majeste“. The only thing that has changed is a) who is doing the restricting and b) what they are restricting. And since the wicked are now making the rules, what they are restricting is the truth.
Perhaps if elected Republicans had ever done a single damn thing to fight the growth of Cancel Culture instead of desperately reassuring everyone that they love blacks, Jews, and foreigners more than their own children, one might be inclined to feel a modicum of sympathy for two Georgia state legislators who lost their jobs due to “a series of tweets” by the sexual predators at The Lincoln Project.
Last week, in a span of 24 hours, my reputation and business were destroyed by a series of tweets in which The Lincoln Project knowingly lied about me. Among other things, they falsely accused me of trying to “suppress voters and people” in several tweets that also tagged my employer and several of its well-known clients. The goal was to cancel me and inflict as much harm as possible, and they succeeded. Unfortunately, disgusting tactics like these are becoming the norm and the truth does not seem to matter anymore.
The truth is that I co-sponsored and voted for bi-partisan Georgia Senate Bill 62, which provides ballots in the state of Georgia to have a watermark, seal, and other security elements to include the precinct number—which are best practices. I did not sponsor or vote in favor of other recent bills in Georgia that sought to limit no excuse absentee balloting and reduce weekend voting. As a matter of fact, some groups attacked me for not supporting these other measures. My record is crystal clear. I believe voting is a sacred right and should be available, transparent, and secure for all citizens. I am proud of my work in this area.
The fact that I serve in elected office does not justify what happened to me. I am also a husband and father, as well as a source of income for my family and many other people who worked for me in the private sector. In Georgia, we are a citizen’s legislature and considered part-time. I do not earn my living serving as a state Senator. In fact, I donated my $17,000 a year salary to charity. I earned a living in business. I worked with incredible people, built a great team, and we were very successful.
Even though The Lincoln Project is plagued by well-publicized allegations of sexual harassment and financial impropriety that have been covered by almost every major media outlet, its “words matter” and have had devastating consequences. Because of their tweets, I have already been falsely labeled, lost my job, and received threats against my entire family.
Even after being successfully canceled, conservatives still don’t learn. They would rather cry about “disgusting tactics” to the enemy media rather than author a fucking law to do something about it. But those “disgusting tactics” are not becoming the norm, they are the norm. They were becoming the norm back in 2005 when people like me were being attacked by the SFWA and the ADL, with the full approval of conservatives who were more than happy to distance themselves from “extremists” and “nationalists” and “supremacists”.
Don’t ever support a conservative. There is absolutely no point in doing so. They don’t fight. They will never fight, not even when their backs are up against the wall. They permitted the weaponization of social media by making the technology companies legally unaccountable under Section 230 and their own literally blasphemous free speech dogma.
I see that people sometimes wonder why the Left keeps pushing its agenda when so many conservative Americans are armed.
It’s because they know perfectly well that all those conservatives are ever going to do is issue dire warnings and wag their fingers about the possibility that someone else is eventually going to do something about it.
He’s just operating on the surface level. Scott Adams points out that Social Justice has a body count:
I’m just going to say it:
If CDC guidelines had told us to socially distance from obese people over the age of fifty, the pandemic would already be over.
Because math.
And they fucking knew it.
But they couldn’t say it.
Wokeness probably killed 200,000 people.
It’s almost certainly worse than that, if one takes the rising suicide rate into account. As much as I personally love the lockdowns, they are lethal for both people and local economies.
Lara and Eric Trump didn’t do a single damn thing about social media censorship when Milo and I were being kicked off Twitter back in 2015. They paid no attention when people and businesses were systematically deplatformed from Paypal, Patreon, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, and pretty much every other Big Tech platform for the entirety of President Trump’s first term from 2016 through 2020.
But now that it is affecting them, it’s suddenly 1984 in 2021!
Facebook tonight removed an interview Lara Trump conducted with President Trump on The Right View. “We removed content from Lara Trump’s Facebook page that featured President Trump speaking,” the message from Facebook stated. “In line with the block we placed on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, further content posted in the voice of Donald Trump will be removed and result in additional limitations on the accounts.”
Lara Trump posted the message on her Instagram page. It was also shared on Twitter by her husband, Eric.
A second message from the social media platform stressed that “content posted on Facebook and Instagram in the voice of President Trump is not currently allowed. The guidance applies to all campaign accounts and pages, including Team Trump, other campaign messaging vehicles on our platforms and former surrogates,” Facebook wrote.
The Trumps were stunned by the blatant censorship.
“We are one step closer to Orwell’s 1984,” Lara wrote on Instagram.
“What an absolute slap in the face to 75 million Americans,” Eric wrote on Twitter.
I think I speak for every American who has been deplatformed over the last six years when I say: “shut the fuck up, Lara and Eric. Now you’re stunned? If you notice or give a fraction of a damn about anyone else being censored, why the Hell do you think 75 million Americans care about yours?”
This should be a warning for those of you who are “sympathetic” and “on our side” but refuse to get involved in the conflict for one reason or another. If you weren’t there for us, don’t expect us to be there for you when they come for you. And they will come for you, sooner or later.
Personally, I consider the failure of President Trump – who I will remind you is nevertheless the greatest US President of the last 184 years – to address the thought policing of Americans to be his greatest failure in office, because unlike many of the other challenges he faced, it was such an easy one to address and successfully resolve in a short period of time.
UPDATE: It’s a good thing Lara Trump complained about it on Instagram. That clearly accomplished… so much:
As big tech companies continue their bid to cancel the ex-commander-in-chief, audio from the podcast “The Right View With Lara Trump,” was yanked from Facebook Tuesday night and reportedly later removed by Instagram.
The professional “conservative movement” is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. They’re literally playing for the other side.
A conservative political action committee is about to unleash a flurry of ads targeting six House Republicans who objected to certifying the Presidential election in January. Among the house members being targeted in the ads are Alabama Republican Representative Mo Brooks, and Northwest Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz.
The Republican Accountability Project says among their goals with the ad campaign is to work to unseat those who have tried to overturn a legitimate election and supported impunity for political violence, and to push back against lies and conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud and “rigged” elections.
Never trust anyone who describes himself as a “conservative” these days. In the 68 years since the publication of The Conservative Mind, conservatism hasn’t conserved anything at all. It’s “nationalist” or nothing, because that is literally the only issue that actually matters anymore. The age of ideology ended in the USA in 1965, but it took until 2015 for Americans to even begin to realize this due to the slow-moving cancer of negative demographics.
Conservatism is cuckservatism. They are one and the same.
Ukraine knows they have no chance against Russia, but its foreign leaders can get paid well by offering up its land and people to serve as bait in the neoclowns’ endless War on Russia
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba announced this week that the country’s National Security and Defense Council had approved a strategy that is aimed at retaking Crimea and reintegrating the strategically important peninsula.
Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea, was annexed by Russia in March 2014, following a US-backed, far-right coup in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
Announcing the move on Twitter, Kuleba wrote, “The signal is clear: we don’t just call on the world to help us return Crimea, Ukraine makes its own dedicated and systemic efforts under President [Volodymyr] Zelensky’s leadership.”
As part of its “3 pillars” strategy for retaking Ukraine, Kuleba notably stated that Zelensky’s administration sought “full Ukrainian sovereignty” over not just Crimea but that of the port city of Sevastopol as well, which serves as the home of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet.
Following Kuleba’s comments, Ukrainian President Zelensky announced via Twitter the creation of a Crimean Platform Initiative which the Ukrainian government described as “a new consultative and coordination format initiated by Ukraine to improve the efficiency of the international response to the occupation of Crimea, respond to growing security challenges, step up international pressure on Russia, prevent further human rights violations, protect victims of the occupying power and to achieve the de-occupation of Crimea and its return to Ukraine.”
The seeds of failure are always planted in the soil of previous success.
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The Q Party’s one elected representative is more dangerous to the Prometheans than all the other Republican elected officials combined:
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has claimed that the Biden administration aims to force all Americans to have Covid-19 vaccine passports, comparing it to the “mark of the beast” prophesied in the Bible.
“They want you to be required to have something called a Covid passport,” Greene said on Monday in a Facebook livestream. “This would mandate your ability to be able to travel, your ability to be able to buy and sell, and I asked the question earlier today, is this something like Biden’s mark of the beast, because that is really disturbing and not good.”
While President Joe Biden reportedly has no plans for his administration to impose a vaccine passport system directly, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that the private sector may require such credentials. She said “determination or development of a vaccine passport” would be driven by the private sector, while the administration will focus on the guidelines that can be used as a basis for the requirements.
Greene, however, argued that the Biden administration is essentially using private companies as proxies to impose mandatory vaccine passports.
“It’s still the same thing,” she said. “It’s still fascism or communism or whatever you want to call it, but it’s coming from private companies. So I have a term for that: I call it corporate communism.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vowed on Monday to forbid any vaccine passports in his state. Greene called on Georgia’s leaders to do the same.
Any Republicans who aren’t strongly, openly, and publicly against this, or who are unwilling to support bills banning “vaccine passports” issued by the government or the private sector, should be considered compromised and working for the other side. And by “other side”, I mean the Devil.