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>That stopped this month. On Dec. 6, Patreon kicked the anti-feminist polemic Carl Benjamin, who works under the name Sargon of Akkad, off its site for using racist language on YouTube.

The article says they barred an account for racist speech, but the article doesn't share the offending quote and without the accompanying context?

Classic case of dishonest media framing.


You mean she used a system she had paid into?

How is this not merely a personal attack?


A personal attack, or ad hominem, attacks the character, motive, or other attribute of the person.

One can be a welfare recipient and be of excellent character and the article doesn't question her character. The article also doesn't say that Rand's being on welfare was any sort of motive for any sort of act.

No one is questioning her right to receive welfare having paid into the system.

The criticism the article brings is her evident hypocrisy for taking welfare after criticizing it for others. That she clearly didn't need it, that she and her followers kept this a secret only adds to that hypocrisy. That hypocrisy has bearing on her thought leadership. Yeah, it really does.


The arty styles are very simple and it's practically the same genre so at first glance it seems like a clone.


That isn't a good argument considering immigration policies in countries select for successful outliers.


Nope, though I found the article fairly interesting.


Any chance of a gog release?


I will think about it :) I am a bit unhappy with gog after buying Spelunky there and seeing that some features (such as the daily challenge) are available only in the Steam version, but I guess this can be done better.


Multiplayer functionality is on the way with the introduction of the galaxy client. I hope that spelunky receives the daily challenge.


What alternatives would you recommend?


Most people I know use 1Password. From the comments made here, 1Password also looks to be the best of both worlds and the most popular alternative.


Also worth looking at Kiva's response to that article, though the editor of the piece you linked to many of Kiva's responses.

http://www.nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3731


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