Nathan Robinson: Guys can we please come up with some kind of structure to this magazine that is my actual full time job so that it ships out on time and our Patreon supporters get their rewards? Also, the person we hired to answer the phones and do basic secretarial work isn’t doing the thing we’re paying her to do.
Current Affairs writers: ummm idk like we just like doing this cool thing with our friends, um it’s like socialist which means anyone does what they want whenever cause it’s just like whatever man
Nathan Robinson: Dawg I got my mom doing administrative work for free here because there’s no organization, I’m open to anything, maybe a company structure or a co-op or whatever, but shit needs to get done.
CA writers: Umm maybe a co-op because we’re epic socialists. Also the secretary we hired can be an artist or some shit, also this other person you refused to hire needs to get another job and we don’t like the person you did hire.
Magazine implodes
CA writers: Nathan Robinson fired us for doing co-op socialism :angery:
Having read through way too much of that lengthy article (that has plenty of receipts), basically yes. Robinson can be criticized for not being a great manager (though he was in a difficult situation, too), but the stuff about union busting and even simply the accusations of firing people hold zero water.
There’s also a fair amount about how the departing staff were informed they would be getting severance pay, and Robinson even suggested more severance pay than they initially asked for, but they were still seeking donations on Venmo and CashApp. If there’s a grifter here it’s not Robinson.
Yeah this is absolutely embarrassing and sad. I feel petty bad for Nathan here. Tbh I used to listen to the podcast and it was good. I found it actually kinda surprising that Nathan did union busting but I didn’t know him so I was just like “damn that sucks”. But now this really sucks, because I thought he was a funny little guy and read him as legitimately caring about the left (even if I disagree with him on quite a few things).
Oh fuck off. No need to be aggressive with me or talk to me like I’m a child. I can have empathetic feelings towards people who are getting death threats because they were lied about. It has nothing to do with my understanding of what politics are
No. Grow up and stop getting parasocial attachments to leftoids that lead you into doing mental gymnastics to excuse social imperialists. I will talk however I want.
Divert your empathy towards the actual oppressed and workers of the world and not rich dandy parasocial mini-celebs who don’t give a shit about them and encourage imperialism against the actual suffering people.
Fascists and libs and Chuds all get death threats too. Doesn’t vindicate any of them or make any of their political positions more correct
tldr as far as I remember:
Nathan Robinson: Guys can we please come up with some kind of structure to this magazine that is my actual full time job so that it ships out on time and our Patreon supporters get their rewards? Also, the person we hired to answer the phones and do basic secretarial work isn’t doing the thing we’re paying her to do.
Current Affairs writers: ummm idk like we just like doing this cool thing with our friends, um it’s like socialist which means anyone does what they want whenever cause it’s just like whatever man
Nathan Robinson: Dawg I got my mom doing administrative work for free here because there’s no organization, I’m open to anything, maybe a company structure or a co-op or whatever, but shit needs to get done.
CA writers: Umm maybe a co-op because we’re epic socialists. Also the secretary we hired can be an artist or some shit, also this other person you refused to hire needs to get another job and we don’t like the person you did hire.
Magazine implodes
CA writers: Nathan Robinson fired us for doing co-op socialism :angery:
Damn is this really what happened hahahah
Having read through way too much of that lengthy article (that has plenty of receipts), basically yes. Robinson can be criticized for not being a great manager (though he was in a difficult situation, too), but the stuff about union busting and even simply the accusations of firing people hold zero water.
There’s also a fair amount about how the departing staff were informed they would be getting severance pay, and Robinson even suggested more severance pay than they initially asked for, but they were still seeking donations on Venmo and CashApp. If there’s a grifter here it’s not Robinson.
Yeah this is absolutely embarrassing and sad. I feel petty bad for Nathan here. Tbh I used to listen to the podcast and it was good. I found it actually kinda surprising that Nathan did union busting but I didn’t know him so I was just like “damn that sucks”. But now this really sucks, because I thought he was a funny little guy and read him as legitimately caring about the left (even if I disagree with him on quite a few things).
stop feeling bad for kautskyites and grow up. politics isn’t about the feelings of political figures.
Oh fuck off. No need to be aggressive with me or talk to me like I’m a child. I can have empathetic feelings towards people who are getting death threats because they were lied about. It has nothing to do with my understanding of what politics are
No. Grow up and stop getting parasocial attachments to leftoids that lead you into doing mental gymnastics to excuse social imperialists. I will talk however I want.
Divert your empathy towards the actual oppressed and workers of the world and not rich dandy parasocial mini-celebs who don’t give a shit about them and encourage imperialism against the actual suffering people.
Fascists and libs and Chuds all get death threats too. Doesn’t vindicate any of them or make any of their political positions more correct
No
tyvm
radlibs will shit on Stalin and then follow his exact leadership style for their dogshit rag lol