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Substack co-founder: "What if we kissed at the Nazi bar?" (substack.com)
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The day just isn't complete without a tiresome retread of freeze peach rhetorical tropes. Oh, it's "important to engage with and understand" white supremacy. That's why we need to boost the voices of white supremacists! And give them money!

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago

this is from 2021: Substack handing buckets of cash to big-name transphobes.

https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-pay

Scott Alexander talked in 2020 about how Substack offered him enough money to quit his highly-paid psychiatrist job and write coy race science there instead:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/09/11/update-on-my-situation/

why were all these people still there in 2023

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