Hey, a little good news for your Sunday brunch. I was checking my Twitter feed last night, and noticed a pair of Tweets in support of Bo Muller-Moore, the “Eat More Kale” guy who’s trying to get funding for a documentary about his fight against Chick-Fil-A, which claims everlasting copyright for any use of the phrase “Eat More.”
The Tweets were from none other than Neil Gaiman, the award-winning best-selling all-around brilliant writer. He’s urging his Twitter followers to donate to Bo’s Kickstarter campaign.
Mr. Gaiman has 1,693,657 followers.
That should help a bit.
As of right now, Bo’s Kickstarter campaign has raised nearly $26,000. The goal is $75,000, and there are 14 days left. I suspect he’s about to get a substantial boost.
…is that he rose to prominence as a COMIC BOOK WRITER. His novels started getting attention from there. But he didn’t get all the kudos and attention until he started moving away from that stuff because, you know, comics are stoopid-icky-kidz-stuff.
So I eagerly went to Kickstarter to donate $100 to Bo’s documentary. I signed up there and went through to the final step. And that’s when I realized I would not be able to do this.
Kickstarter uses Amazon(dot)com as their payment company. And since Amazon is pure, unadulterated evil, I can never even load an Amazon page. It is too bad that the fabulous Kickstarter concept undermines it’s own best interests by partnering with the evil Amazon.
Ironically, Amazon is just as big of a bully as Chick-Fil-A ®™©ForeverSoThere!!!
Short list of Amazon’s embrace of everything that is wrong with the world:
– Business model depends on running local-owned booksellers out of business.
– Bullies states against sales taxes through brazen extortion.
– Enthusiastic supporter of ALEC, the far-right wing outfit that writes the Stop Democrats From Voting, Eliminate the Middle Class By Killing Off What’s Left Of Unions, and the Use Big Government to Force Doctors to Rape Women With Ultrasound Machines Just To Punish Them For Being Born Female laws.
I will never use any Amazon services because they are that evil. If you don’t believe that doctors should be forced to brutalize women for no reason, then you too should never, ever even load their webpage.
Does Amazon actually get a cut of the Kickstarter proceeds? If so, I might agree with Sue and Comrade.
If not, well, I don’t.