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

nah it was a pontiac aztek, more of an SUV crossover

Bald+goatee has been unavoidably white power-y since American History X.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelmovies/images/2/22/54191.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140202061940

I really hope i never go bald.

talkin bout my generation

one time i waiting at a train station in camden and this shaved-head dude came up to me asking for a dollar and then asked if i was "down." when i said i didn't know what he meant, he pulled his shirt down some to reveal a great big fuck-off swastika tattoo. it was the first time i realized my aging-punk dress sense and shaving my head due to male pattern baldness could be...misconstrued.

― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, May 17, 2016 12:06 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know exactly which train station you are speaking of and that is exactly the type of thing that would happen there

re: undercuts & South Jersey
http://www.nj.com/ocean/index.ssf/2016/05/possible_white_supremacist_found_in_pinelands_with.html

LOL

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/business/dealbook/gawker-founder-suspects-a-common-financer-behind-lawsuits.html

what if this is really about some butthurt silicon valley person who hated one of Sam Biddle's articles. what if!

the biggest actually ever

lol

popcorn please

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/ikviugvvn2g4hyttnhcn.JPG

via kinja

Peter Thiel.

Of course.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-valley-billionaire-has-been-secretly-funding-hulk-hogans-lawsuits-against-gawker/#2de665ec7805

season four of SILICON VALLEY is going to be great

I am on record as a gawker critic but this is fucked up.

wow

anonymous people familiar with the situation - ehhh

still makes perfect sense. Thiel is such a weird, pathetic person

rich ppl grinding axes, news at eleven

in all seriousness though this is extremely fucked up and more evidence that america's new tech elite is a bunch of soiled-diaper babies

sheldon adelson at least had the decency to just secretly buy his local newspaper and then fire everybody

ikr

Peter Thiel is totally funding the lawsuit, people

I am on record as a gawker critic but this is fucked up.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 23:47 (Yesterday) Permalink

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The naïveté of loujag but about 80x more boring

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hating from ittoqqortoormiit

Anyway, maura otm

I am still 90% sure the actor Christoper Welch, who portrayed a character very similar to Thiel on HBO's Silicon Valley, died of cancer, but you never know

https://caterina.net/2016/05/24/champerty-or-third-party-litigation/

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fake af

caterina is a great lady

yesterday i would've felt sketchy defending hogan trial as impt for future freedom of press, but damn... thiel plot twist makes gawker unequivocal heroes in this imho

first comment from Denton
http://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people?comment=3414140#comments

He was so paranoid that, when I was looking into the story, a year ago, I got a series of messages relaying the destruction that would rain down on me, and various innocent civilians caught in the crossfire, if a story ever ran.

also if it weren't for their weird beef over wapo trump coverage thiel and trump (who wants to expand libel law, restrain media) would be natural allies

o I got him mixed up e Bezoz nvm... thiel is the one who campaigned for trump lol

Thiel would never buy a paper, he'd fund a company whose goal was to make a machine that would blow up all printing presses simultaneously

That's the craziest part of that character on Silicon Valley -- the harebrained schemes, like libertarian island on an oil platform, were real

Regardless of his politics, this news should disturb everyone. People talk a lot about the dominance of the 1% or in this case more like a tiny fraction of the 1%. But being able to give massive political contributions actually pales in comparison to the impact of being able to destroy a publication you don't like by combining the machinery of the courts with anonymity and unlimited funds to bleed a publication dry.

We don't have to go any further than Donald Trump to know that the incredibly rich often use frivolous litigation to intimidate critics and bludgeon enemies. Mother Jones had a lawsuit like this, clearly intended to bleed them dry through endless legal expenses. They won, though at a steep cost. But when bully plutocrats do so in their own name there is at least a self-correcting dynamic at work. A plaintiff in a libel suit opens him or herself up to reputational harm and highly intrusive legal discovery which is often enough to scare people away. (Remember, when Trump sued Tim O'Brien for publishing Trump insiders' claims that Trump was worth less than $250 million dollars, Trump was eventually forced to show O'Brien's lawyers his tax returns.) In some ways, this lines up with something I noted in my 'Brittle Grip' series of posts: growing calls from the extremely rich to not only be able to use their money without limit to shape the political process but to do so anonymously to avoid being "intimidated" or "vilified".

It all comes down to a simple point. You may not like Gawker. They've published stories I would have been ashamed to publish. But if the extremely wealthy, under a veil secrecy, can destroy publications they want to silence, that's a far bigger threat to freedom of the press than most of the things we commonly worry about on that front

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-huge-huge-deal

i don't know much about this Peter Thiel guy. why do we hate him, because he's a Trump supporter? it's fucked up you can abuse the court system like that (and part of the reason my dad hates doing business in the US) – but it sounds like his beef with Gawker is they outed him years ago, and if that's the case, i'm not really feeling any sympathy for them.

did you actually read the "outing" article, or anything else about his history?

his endorsement of Trump was new to me but has absolutely nothing to do with my opinion of the man

"i don't know much about this Peter Thiel guy"

he's a silicon valley libertarian who was born in germany, but his parents immigrated to the US shortly after his birth. he's both a religious conservative and gay. he founded a conservative publication at stanford after deciding he hated multiculturalism and the idea that "hate speech" is a category

politically his organizations have funded muck-raking bullshit like James O'Keefe, anti-marriage equality laws, and anything that

he paid a bunch of young ppl $100k as a start-up fund on the stipulation they do not go to college. he hates higher education.

outside of hedge fund shenanigans, he's currently known for championing philanthropy, but only when it relates to pie in the sky silicon valley-style utopian visions (see Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism) related to immortality, the singularity, and most hilariously, literally building an island for libertarians to move to.

the point isn't even really about peter thiel vs gawker anyway

there's def a lol regarding libertarianism and freedom of press vs. big government lawy-uhs somewhere to be found here

i guess outing him makes a little more sense now.

Peter Thiel once called Valleywag, Gawker's tech branch, 'the Silicon Valley equivalent of al-Qaida'.

most of what valleywag did, outside of publishing the "you're gay, that's fine, everyone in the valley knows it and is fine with it, wtf" article, which doesn't seem to correlate to them being al-Qaida, was repeatedly criticize and joke about the ridiculous business schemes and cyclical nature of funding ventures that only make sense to valley people

Jordan OTM. It's often fuckheaded to place sympathy over principle when making sense of legal issues.