We quite successfully fundraised against ESR and his hatemongering. a few months ago (described here https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17092684/great-slate-fundraising-congressional-campaign …). So if it helps, please realize that it really pisses him off when you donate to the Great Slate, all running against incumbents with massive NRA funding.
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Eww, the comments. Eww. Bit of casual genocide, weird insults like "soystain"... then realised I was only 1/10 of the way through them and couldn't take any more. It's a small consolation that in a civil war most of his followers would be defeated by a few flights of stairs.
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Didn't we bribe you not to post any more shit from him?
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And the comments take it even further. Jesus.
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For the uninitiated, who is this guy?
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He's a Walter Mitty-like figure in the programming world, whose self-aggrandizing writing about hacker culture (and his claimed status at the head of it) had some success in the early 2000's.
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My favorite ESR piece was his musing on fashion, wherein he wrote that he'd settled on safari attire as his fashion of choice
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The very recent one on breakfast is also wonderful. But this one sounds magnificent!
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And of course the tyrant Saddam Hussein passed a militia law that meant all households in Iraq had to purchase a fully automatic rifle - so what a load of bollix the whole thing is
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