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>Unfortunately, whilst all this was playing out, at least one Valley bro apparently decided that a little bit too much progress was being made. That at least on
by rl3 9y ago
>Unfortunately, whilst all this was playing out, at least one Valley bro apparently decided that a little bit too much progress was being made. That at least one woman too many was speaking out.
So the article opens with the implication that Altman is just another 'bro' complicit in sexually harassing women.
It then hammers on the Bilderberg part like it was somehow relevant.
Furthermore it proceeds to make a tortured comparison between Altman and Trump, even going so far as to call him "some kind of Alt Right Roger Rabbit". Presumably this is because their readership is so sophisticated as to otherwise not understand such alleged impropriety unless framed in context of Trump.
Never mind the fact that Altman is openly gay and harbors a fervent dislike of Trump. But hey—when your job involves passing off third-rate trash as journalism, then I suppose lying by omission to suit an agenda is simply par for the course.
>Which brings me to the moral of the story, where my outrage at seeing Sarah and Pando smeared by a unremitting scumbag like Sam Altman butts against my own guilt at being part of the social group – well-off white dudes in Silicon Valley – who are almost exclusively responsible for all of the shit we’ve witnessed/read about these past few days.
Ah yes, the moral of the story. This roughly translates as: "My boss is in a spat with this guy, and I like my paycheck, so I'm going to call him nasty names and state that I feel guilty about being born with the same skin color as him. Then, I'm going to blame other people with the same skin color as me for the world's ills so I can feel better about myself."
- s73ver 9y ago“Never mind the fact that Altman is openly gay and harbors a fervent dislike of Trump. But hey—when your job involves passing off third-rate trash as journalism, then I suppose lying by omission to suit an agenda is simply par for the course.” Sure, but he did the same thing Trump has been doing for the past year. That’s what the comparison is.
- rl3 9y agoMore like Pando is saying he did. For all we know there's more nuance somewhere that they're omitting. It's easy to cherry-pick the most flattering aspects of a Twitter feud and present it as a complete accounting of events. Regardless, I still fail to see why they felt the need to make the comparison. It just struck me as a cheap way to vilify him with their readers. If Altman did what they said he did, then of course that's bad. However, I can't help but notice he isn't the one penning hate-filled screeds here.
- s73ver 9y agoAll the tweets are out there to read. And that whole, “I’ve got an investigation going, but I’m not going to actually say what it revealed” thing is DIRECTLY out of Trump’s playbook. Like, that’s exactly what he did with Comey. And yeah, if he’s being a douche, and worse yet a Trumpian douche, I see no reason not to call him out on it. Also, he penned hate-filled screeds during that Twitter exchange.
- charlesism 9y agoI stopped reading as soon as I got to the Bilderberg part. For all I know Sam Altman really has behaved horribly, but it's obvious I can't trust this author.
- everdayimhustln 9y agoI thought it was Breitbart, Danger & Play or InfoWars, but it's good to know Pando sinks below WaPo, BuzzFeed and Gawker levels.