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Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 02:37 PM Nov 2017

Mercer wanna cookie and a pat on the head?

Billionaire Republican financier Robert Mercer Thursday is cutting all ties with conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos and selling his shares in Breitbart News, which he has funded for years

......has long backed Breitbart and Yiannopoulos, said he hoped Yiannopoulos’ abrasive style and views outside the political mainstream would help people think for themselves. However, as Yiannopoulos moved closer to neo-Nazi and other racist groups, he now regrets supporting him.


Milo's been disgusting for years. You funded him when he was outing and doxxing trans youth at the schools you paid for him to speak at. You paid for him to be a horrible white nationalist. You paid for him to organize social media attacks on WOC actors like Leslie Jones just for being in Ghostbusters. You paid for him to give a platform and legitimacy for GamerGate to keep on doxxing and threatening women that disagreed with them on social media. You paid for him to be a pet gay for the far right to trot out every time they needed to be able to say, "No, see? We've got gay friends, too!!"

Here's a list of how disgusting Milo was before you managed to cut ties with him you enormous hypocrite, Mercer:
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/bad-things-milo-yiannopoulos-has-done-case-his-new-publisher-cares-just-kidding-they-totally

And you didn't stop funding him because you don't like his form of expression, his ties to white nationalist groups, his islamophobia, his own personal white supremacy, or anything like that, you stopped funding him once it became obvious he was a pedophile apologist, just conveniently reinforcing the right wing's most disgusting and incorrect stereotype about gay men. You get no cookie, and you get no pat on the head. You funded Milo to do irreparable damage to the national political discourse, then kicked him to the curb when he finally was SO disgusting you couldn't afford to have ties with him any more. Get bent.
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Mercer wanna cookie and a pat on the head? (Original Post) Saviolo Nov 2017 OP
Actually, I assume he is defunding / cutting ties to these creatures shanny Nov 2017 #1
It's a pearls-clutching moment for him Saviolo Nov 2017 #3
kick Blue_Tires Nov 2017 #2
K&R uponit7771 Nov 2017 #4
"help people think for themselves"? maxsolomon Nov 2017 #5
 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
1. Actually, I assume he is defunding / cutting ties to these creatures
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 05:36 PM
Nov 2017

because his own activities became public knowledge. I doubt if personal disgust had one thing to do with it.

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
3. It's a pearls-clutching moment for him
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 05:42 PM
Nov 2017

"Gasp! Is THAT what that little weasel's really about? I shall defund him immediately!"

He knew all along, it's just become too expensive socially and politically if not financially for him to be tied to a racist, sexist, transphobic twit like Milo. He was gold for the far right for a long time while they could trot him out on stage and point to their pet gay, but now that he's a political liability he *suddenly* realizes what Milo's doing. You're exactly right, Mercer's a disgusting hypocrite.

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