hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

following this thread is making me realize just how amazing a hulk hogan leg drop on gawker would be.

ive got a feeling that jordan and max will be way less invested in defending this stuff when they dont work for gawker anymore, just a hunch idk

― not a garbageman, i am garbage, man (m bison), Sunday, July 12, 2015 10:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also i just want to say that i hate this! i get that people think gawker is scummy--my inbox is filled with emails from these people--but at least do me the courtesy of assuming that i actually believe the things i am saying. i may be a glib scumbag but i am not a liar. my sense is that absent any connection to gawker i might be defending it more vociferously. we will find out whenever i get fired, i suppose.

― max, Monday, July 13, 2015 8:17 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

allow me 2 clarify. i think you genuinely believe what you're saying itt. i also think what you believe is heavily influenced by who pays you whether you'd care to admit that or not. i say this as someone whose beliefs twisted and bent towards that of my scummy employer's at one point in my life and when i stopped working for them i felt freer to talk shit about them and what they stood for. idk. yr plenty smart, i just don't think intelligence is necessarily a bulwark towards this kind of face-saving bias.

it's a type of confirmation bias though. people who work at gawker tend to be drawn there for ideological reasons so that its employees are eager to defend it on ideological grounds is not exactly surprising or disingenuous.

Yeah, it's not like there's a draft.

the idea of an online writing draft is p intriguing tbh

announcer: "with the 1st pick in the 2012 new media draft, the atlantic selects....ta-nehesi coates" (idk when he started there, I'm guessing)

commentators: "consensus #1 pick there, great get for the atlantic wow"

and with the 462,392,118th and final pick of the new media draft, the Harrison Family Christmas Letter selects Aunt Carol. Aunt Carol is believed to be a tough sign because the last time we saw her, at a July 4th picnic, she said that she wasn't a very good writer and that she wasn't really interested in helping out with the christmas letter, but that she might be willing to submit a picture if she can figure out how to scan it at walgreens

/endcustos

you must not be familiar with karl malone

following this thread is making me realize just how amazing a hulk hogan leg drop on gawker would be.

this should be the settlement, hogan gets to leg drop nick denton

reasonable

a sex tape is perhaps off brand for "Hulk Hogan", but it certainly is not for "Hollywood Hogan". settlement will turn on whether it is Hulk or Hollywood Hogan having sex on that tape.

gawker lawyers should examine tape for mid-penetration nwo hand signs toward the camera

imo gawker should be much more concerned abt publishing 11th grade book reports that apologize for hot garbage: http://io9.com/armada-will-make-a-great-movie-but-the-book-is-disappo-1717557657

Yeah, that review is a fucking tragedy. I feel like io9 didn't used to be quite so fawning; I was actually able to read a book review there and consider it a legit recommendation. But these days I can practically hear the reviewers making little "pew-pew" laser sounds as they type.

EXPLAIN YRSELVES GAWKERS

I got to "Think 'The Last Starfighter' with some modern twists" and I think I've read enough to make a decision about this book

tbh i was out at "Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One is one of my favorite books..."

tbh i was out at "Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One is one of my favorite books..."

Me too, especially since I'd already read Slate's evisceration of Armada (and hated RP1), but I read on out of morbid curiosity - I wanted to experience the thought process of someone who could make a statement like that and mean it.

i mean look, that's fine, and yes i went ahead and read the whole thing for the same reason, but someone who counts RP1 among their favorite books has no business writing about books

my least fav type of gawker story is children dying in horrible pointless ways

OK, fine, Gawker, you've justified your existence for another day. This piece is great. I actually kinda like the guy's illustrations - they're like a cross between Robert Williams paintings and the political cartoons in The Onion.

now this is my shit

http://jezebel.com/lululemon-diaries-my-life-in-an-exploitative-libertari-1717441616

not dissing gawker, but there's been like 1000000 blog posts about david dees. hell my blog did one in 2009.

http://i.imgur.com/R1raY.gif

now this is my shit

http://jezebel.com/lululemon-diaries-my-life-in-an-exploitative-libertari-1717441616

― goole, Wednesday, July 15, 2015 11:47 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

co-sign

if i'd seen that on my own i would have been like "damn i better make sure goole sees this"

I'll rep for the Gawkergroup forever merely for the existence of Kitchenette.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TiGakJv4--/1341939714399291819.jpg

"damn i better make sure goole sees this"

my man

I am not even going to attempt to quote the best parts of that lululemon piece because there are so many

Upper-level managers all talk in the exact same weird fake Canadian accent.

DYING for a paragraph or two on just this^^

I'm sore-ree gr80 we just can't

ive shared this on ilx before iirc but i went through a big breakup in '07 and (for better or worse) we kept in close touch for the following year or so in which she began working for lululemon. i remember her talking enthusiastically abt "putting your goals up on the wall and sharing them with your co-workers" and just thinking that would be my worst nightmare

we should maybe start a thread for our goals to put them up on the wall

ayn rand libertarians using promises of self-actualization as a cover for treating people shitty never stops being repulsive

"here, we are interested in your well-being, that is why we teach you that self-interest trumps all. it is in our self-interests to treat you like garbage"

surprised at how enraged that piece made me

gr80 otm abt the exact same weird fake canadian accent tho

i was thinking of writing some goals on a piece of paper and putting them on my wall and then i was like no fuck no what the fuck kind of person do you think you are not that one nope

i just play this song once a month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U89WvUqB2wc

in college my friends and i found Civ's phone number in the NYC white pages and called him up

The latest outing - mostly indefensible or wholly indefensible?

you're gonna have to be a lot more specific than that

@WillMcAvoyACN: "So what value does this piece have?"
"Well, it ruins the life of a man who is the brother of someone kind of important!"
"Print that shit!"

http://gawker.com/conde-nasts-cfo-tried-to-pay-2-500-for-a-night-with-a-1718364339

ruh roh
https://twitter.com/adamweinstein/status/621851862141128704

"the world has become more aware of what women are subjected to online, and making the internet a safer space for women has become an increasingly important issue over time, to which everyone must contribute, and thus the collective moral compass has realigned itself." - Jordan Sargent, July 2015

"gawker (for instance) would have had to be as evil as its worst critics say it is to not consider what publishing the hacked reddit nudes would mean for its subjects."

Wow that's pretty fucking awful.

Idgi Geithner refused to let the escort blackmail him (at least at first). what did he do that was soooo bad to warrant this? conspiracy to commit adultery? seems weak