After departing Chapo Trap House, where he was one of the original hosts, Virgil Texas went on to co-host the Bad Faith podcast with Briahna Joy Gray (who herself was press secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign). After allegations that Virgil had groomed a teenager via DMs surfaced on Twitter, he vanished from the face of the earth and was never heard from again. Nobody has ever addressed it, and he's still technically a co-host of Bad Faith, despite having done like two episodes and then disappearing. Chapo also never addressed any of it, but announced his departure via a written statement that was very polite and boilerplate, then never spoke his name again. It was all very weird, and the allegations were never resolved as far as I know.
I don't think she's the one actually writing the headlines, and a lot of the people who are associated with that place may well have different ideological sympathies.
If the EU would grow a backbone, they could really fuck shit up for Silicon Valley in general. Cory Doctorow's proposal about removing DMCA-like anti-circumvention laws and letting the rest of the world design and distribute jailbreaks for all digital devices would be a great start. Prosecuting these ghouls for their many, many crimes would also be fantastic. I'm not holding my breath, but even this kind of legal harassment of
Toddlers frequently go out in public wearing Halloween costumes in March. Letting people play with and try on identities when they're small is good, actually. Is that "social transitioning?" Is it social transitioning when your three year old nephew tells you he's going to be a fire truck when he grows up? Should you sit him down and have a very serious and intense conversation about "traditional human roles?" No? Then fuck off about that same kid wanting to wear a dress or play with dolls or jump in the mud puddle or whatever dumbass thing you've convinced yourself has "gender implications."
I think the fact that it is so bad and involves people on "both sides" of the mainstream liberal consensus is an absolutely amazing agitprop opportunity. This is going to disillusion a lot of people from across the middle part of the ideological spectrum. Being able to hammer the fact that the ruling class is made up almost entirely of Draculas who are all secretly friends doing despicable shit with each other despite the public kayfabe is a great opportunity.
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth isn't terrible, but it spends a good chunk of time emphasizing how taking climate change seriously would be good for capitalism.
After departing Chapo Trap House, where he was one of the original hosts, Virgil Texas went on to co-host the Bad Faith podcast with Briahna Joy Gray (who herself was press secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign). After allegations that Virgil had groomed a teenager via DMs surfaced on Twitter, he vanished from the face of the earth and was never heard from again. Nobody has ever addressed it, and he's still technically a co-host of Bad Faith, despite having done like two episodes and then disappearing. Chapo also never addressed any of it, but announced his departure via a written statement that was very polite and boilerplate, then never spoke his name again. It was all very weird, and the allegations were never resolved as far as I know.