• WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    I hope they can do one final article with a name like "We dropped NSA grade research chemicals with Yair Netenyahu at a Hindutva psytrance warehouse rave" or some nonsense, y'know, for closure.

  • davel [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Once upon a time I was the full stack developer and the sysadmin—so the entire tech staff—for an online magazine. But somehow Vice can’t handle running its own site anymore?

  • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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    7 months ago

    I think its funny that the guy who founded Vice got replaced with the person who turned A&E into the duck dynasty network, after which she totally tanked the company, and they then replaced her with two guys who were both in senior executive positions as the company kept shooting itself in the foot. I have no sympathy for Shane Smith. The man is a billionaire and his company ethos went from "What if lame nepo baby punk sex pests could be journalists" to "What if tech guy sex pestd were journalists" without ever stopping being performative about the aesthetic. But it is funny that the company only functioned under his leadership when his main deal is forming deals to get vice funded by other people and going to third world countries to gawp.

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      Such a great alumni

      In January 2008, co-founder Gavin McInnes left Vice Media due to "creative differences" with the company, and founded the website streetcarnage.com. He later co-founded Rooster, an advertising agency, and became a far-right activist, founding the Proud Boys.

      • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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        7 months ago

        Gavin Mcinnes founding the proud boys and also founding vice is pretty well known, partially because Gavin Mcinnes won't shut the fuck up about how he had to leave vice because it wasn't punk enough, since the only punk thing was being a white supremacist and a fascist.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      Yes. The guy was a government official from one of the separatist Donbas regions. He was disillusioned with how corrupt or inefficient the new government is and how they weren’t respecting people’s demands and think they all would’ve been shot by the kind Vladimir Illych. I believe the guy’s name or moniker is also Lenin lol

      • ChapoKrautHaus [none/use name]
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        7 months ago

        believe the guy’s name or moniker is also Lenin lol

        It's called "nom de guerre" dad, and it's a far superior concept to a "moniker"!

        • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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          7 months ago

          Bloody kids fetishishing french bourgeois decadence and attacking good proletarian words

          "person's name, especially a nickname or alias," 1849, said to be originally a hobo term (but monekeer is attested in London underclass from 1851), of uncertain origin; perhaps from monk (monks and nuns take new names with their vows, and early 19c. British tramps referred to themselves as "in the monkery").

  • vertexarray [any]
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    7 months ago

    The days of eating a tube of cbd lube counting as gonzo journalism are over