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TRASHFUTURE

*PREVIEW* In Search of (Even More) Racist Facebook

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard the story about right-wingers who decide to build their own social media, crowdfunding, or even ridesharing sites? We're talking Gab, Hatreon, and the like. Why do they all fail? Why are they so poorly assembled? And why does this keep happening? In this preview of the bonus episode for the week, the True Chaos Configuration of Riley, Milo, and Alice attempt to decipher this riddle for our times. If you want to get the whole episode, access it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41176356 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/

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0:00.0

This was what Rob Monster wrote on Gab.

0:18.4

Dear Gab Nation, I slam in the back of my Dracula.

0:23.9

Dear Gab Nation, as a number of you know, since Epic.com became the registrar for Gab,

0:29.1

I have made an effort to engage both the extreme right and the extreme left as well as

0:33.0

everything in between.

0:34.9

What is the extreme left of Gab?

0:37.7

Like, I really-

0:38.8

I want to test their free speech thing by going on to

0:43.8

Gab, logging on, getting an account, and saying what I actually

0:46.8

believe about cops.

0:48.3

But, like, I will not, because I know I would be banned

0:51.1

instantly.

0:52.5

Yeah.

0:53.3

So basically what you said was...

0:54.3

I have done this in part because I think Gab has been wrongly depicted by the media

0:59.6

and also because I bet my reputation on Epic's decision to serve as Gab's registrar, which they still are.

1:05.9

Imagine calling a company Epic and then having to keep saying it.

1:09.4

Like he's really like ruined his own working life there by just, it's

1:14.1

an albatross around his neck now. He has to keep unironically saying the word epic.

1:17.5

You think that bothers a guy called Rob Monster?

1:20.3

That is true. That is very true. How are we spelling monster? Normally.

1:24.6

You have to commit to that as your brand so deeply.

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