Billionaire Peter Thiel secretly funded Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker (Report)

[Phrenological]

Revenge porn uploads (not Prince videos) should incur these fines.

[Phrenological]

I find the people who most need it are the least likely to disabuse themselves of their preconceived notions.

[smut_clyde]

Didn’t Thiel promise to fuck off and sea-stead?

[failquail]

This possibly appears to be a rare example of a webcomic i’ve not discovered yet, do you have a source?

art style seems familiar though, so it might not be, but i can’t place it… oglaf?

[fakefighter]

Wow. That hashtag.

[renke]

You don’t recognize Oglaf? Shame on you!

(often nsfw)

[failquail]

Okay, my bad
Didn’t recognise the particular strip (damn my horrible memory )

[safedisc2]

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who was outed as gay by Gawker in 2007, has been secretly funding Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker.

Well, surprise?

Don’t out people that don’t want to be outed. Don’t post other peoples’ sex tapes. Don’t be cunts.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.

[squidsquared]

Plenty of times. As a matter of fact they won’t shut up.

Milo Yiannopoulos

[Papasan]

[Phrenological]

Misogyny from gay men? Sure.

And the Trump voters, sure. Plenty of “fuck you I’ve got mine” that’ll take perceived less taxes over civil rights.

I’m not surprised whenever the two would cross over into MRA-town.

Though Breitbart are professional trolls, may they all meet the same cocaine-and-hate fueled end as their namesake.

[milliefink]

@morcheeba

Effectively shutting down an entire publication because of one specific article or video… that is a threat to the journalistic integrity of newspapers across the United States.

Well, what do you suggest as an alternative? If corporations are people (smirk), we’ve got to treat them like people … if a person messes up badly enough, even just once, we throw their whole body in jail - not just the part that did the bad thing.

Right, we punish them. Ideally, in proportion to the severity of the crime. If the crime was far less than murder, we don’t inflict on them the equivalent of shutting down an entire publication because of a specific article or video, that is, the death penalty.

[Mindysan33]

Well, not all gay men are progressive yeah? Andrew Sullivan is very much a gay man, supports conservative causes, and I’ve read some things he’s said which aren’t exactly woman friendly. So, I’d guess that some gay men are probably MRAs.

[Oroka]

HAHA good to see. If you dig into someones personal life, sensationalize, and flaunt it around against that persons wishes to make a profit, this is what you should get. If you step on someones toes, you better make sure they dont carry a big stick.

I follow a few Gawker blogs, but not ones that are gossip rags.

[eerd]

Could it just be a case of Thiel investing in the lawsuit? There have been a few instance recently that come to mind where such investments have come to light.

If I recall correctly, the legal case involving Chevron and Ecuador involved some sort of financial backer, presumably on the basis that if successful they get a share of the profits/proceeds/damages/call them what you will.

[milliefink]

@victorhazzard

once i realized there was a lot of racism and misogyny in some gay neighborhoods, i would sometimes mention it to people. women of color, invariably, were basically like “yeah no shit. are you a moron?” i grew up in columbus ohio, and there’s a documentary about a neighborhood there where realtors are literally going block by block kicking out black families any way they can, to sell to young gay dudes. and you don’t want to hear the racial slurs that get tossed around at gay bars in that part of town.

I think you’re describing the class and race privileges that comes with being well off and white more than you are racism among gay people. Seems to me that your casting of this phenomena as the latter in two comments here amounts to homophobic slurring.

[Phrenological]

Don’t forget he’s also a racist-ass Bell Curve proponent.

It really chaps my buns when Dan Savage chats with him as “one of the ‘good’ conservatives”. He ain’t that good.

[Phrenological]

Maybe, but this is primarily very very personal.

[Missy_Pants]

I gotta back them up here. Its not homophobic to point out that gay white men also benefit (and enable) sexist and racist social structures. I’ve seen this first hand. (yes yes #notallwhitegaymen) Talk to some lesbians, specifically WOC and see what they have to say about the politics in “Gay” areas when it comes to race and gender.

[milliefink]

@Missy_Pants

Its not homophobic to point out that gay white men also benefit (and enable) sexist and racist social structures.

Agreed.

@Missy_Pants

Talk to some lesbians, specifically WOC and see what they have to say about the politics in “Gay” areas when it comes to race and gender.

Okay, but are those politics any worse than they are in other predominantly white enclaves (say, rural small towns, or suburbs that are still lilly-white)?