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CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by LWD@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board...

Of course I can't comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can't figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

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[–] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Old guy, here...

WTF is a "glowie"?

[–] febra@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Terry A. Davis popularised the term. He was a software engineer that ended up with a very bad case of schizophrenia. While unemployed due to his illness, he streamed while working on his own operating system that he built with the intention of "communicating with God". While streaming, he used to go on these rants about how federal agents are spying on him, calling them "glowies" more often than not along the n word with a very hard r at the end. The term "glowies" has very racist associations.

In other words, you need to be somewhat fairly far down the alt-right pipeline if you actually talk about "glowies".

[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It comes from Terry A. Davis's description of CIA, FBI and the like: "They glow in the dark"

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That statements is actually infused with some racial epithets.

[–] fluf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The CIA relation is racist? Or the fact the chanoids added the n word at the end?

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there's at least one quote of Davis himself using the n-word to refer to federal agents before describing how bright they glow..

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didn't a lot of the people from back in the old 4chan days move over to KiwiFarms? This feels like it would be a kiwifarms thing these days rather than 4chan

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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