• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Honestly, if Hank Green turned out to be awful, I would be thrown for a total loop. There are some people whose heel turn didn’t faze me at all, but I’ve followed the Green Brothers for my entire adult life, and if it all turned out to be a long con, I’d be flabbergasted.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      14 days ago

      Me too, which is just another way of saying there is just no way this will happen. He and John recently turned Complexly into a nonprofit, after they shopped around to sell it and found that all interested buyers would repurpose it to something far away from its mission. See: https://youtu.be/LMCbqRsW7PM starting at 2:30 or so.

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        14 days ago

        Totally. The more I hear Hank talk about his philosophy and thought process, the more I realize that even when I don’t agree with his decisions I really respect how he got there (and often I end up coming around to agreeing with them, too). By all accounts they’re both entirely who they seem to be, which is kind, decent, and effective people. Sometimes I wish they were a little bit less pragmatic, but even within that I can’t knock them too much because it’s so hard to argue with results.