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@maiyannah Honestly all that the butthurt managed was to give him temporal popularity. This would have happened with or without.
Tuesday, 21-Feb-17 01:12:00 UTC from web-
@nerthos He's in a symbiotic relationship with the sensationalist press, really. But that he's a kiwi-stirrer not worth paying attention to has remained pretty universally trrue.
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@maiyannah Made for eachother then.
Tuesday, 21-Feb-17 01:27:30 UTC from web-
@nerthos CGP Grey made a good video that more or less explains the social psychology at work here if you're interested in the more serious explanation of the popularity of him and those like him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc-
@maiyannah Oh, don't worry, I know how these things work well enough.
Tuesday, 21-Feb-17 01:32:28 UTC from web
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@maiyannah @nerthos
He's only worth paying attention to if you find entertainment in what he has done, particularly in the reaction the press and some of the left has over him. He's probably having a lot of fun with them. But if you want something more serious, then it isn't for you.-
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@sim @nerthos This is a guy who built his press empire on robbing writers and refusing to pay them agreed-upon wages. By the way, if you ever want to get him to block you on twitter, bring up that class action lawsuit that was brought against him in British court. He lost and had to pay them. Irrespective of what you think of his views, that's a very applety thing to do to people.
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@maiyannah @nerthos
Ah, yes. That is a grapety thing to do... shows that he doesn't keep contracts which is dishonest. I wasn't aware of that.-
@sim @nerthos It's hard enough to find a paying gig as a freelance writer ... so imagine being one who thought they finally found a decent one ... just to get stiffed on your paycheque. Pretty bananaty.
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@maiyannah @nerthos
Yeah... if he couldn't deliver, then he shouldn't have agreed to the contract. Although it sounds like this could have been more deliberate which is worse. Definitely a papaya thing to do to freelance writers, or to anyone.-
@sim @nerthos He fought it for a long time in the courts too, which IMO shows he had no intention of paying. If it was a legitimate contract dispute you tend not to have it dragged out on it. He was trying to make it too expensive for them to get their wages back in terms of legal fees and so forth. But the courts saw it for what it was and made him pay their legal fees too. He declared bankrupcy on that paper of his to try to cut his losses. Most of those writers probably only got a fraction of what he owed them. And here he is now gallavanting around being the media darling. I can understand why many of my writer friends resent him.
He also had a crowdfunder for some sort of scholarship he allegedly scappered with the funds for and used himself, but I'm less up on the details of that one.-
@maiyannah @nerthos
Yeah, I can understand why they would resent him too. Now the media really have turned him into the darling, and he has gained a lot of popularity. Look what they have created...-
@sim @nerthos And all that money he's making with talks and so forth isn't being used to repay those debts to those writers either.
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@maiyannah @nerthos
Yeah, I don't imagine that he is using it to pay those debts. I do wonder about his scholarship fund for white males now. Probably not very successful...
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