The pledge drive is in trouble, and I really need your help.
Though many of you have already donated – and I can’t thank you enough for that – the total so far is considerably less than I need to cover my expenses. So if you haven’t donated yet, please do.
I know this is an awkward time to ask for money. But if you can spare even a few dollars, you’ll be providing a lifeline to an independent, ad-free blog that deflates some of the most toxic shit out there in the “Red Pill” world. And you’ll enable me to keep serving up daily posts without worrying constantly about how to cover the next rent check.
Or insurance premium. Most of my money problems are due to the US’s mess of a health care system – I spend more on medical expenses than I do on rent. A recent trip to the emergency room for searing back pain didn’t exactly help my financial position.
I’m expecting things to improve in 2020. I’m working on building up my freelance writing business again, and I’ll be unveiling a new project soon. But right now, frankly, I need all the help I can get.
I love doing this blog, and I’m forever grateful that it brings something to so many people’s lives. You folks – pledge drive donors and regular supporters — have enabled me to keep We Hunted the Mammoth going for nine years, and I hope that together we can keep it going for the tenth year and beyond.
— David
What is it?
$20 sent!
I also posted it to the @rationalwiki twitter, you’ve fed us so much awesome material 😀
Take care, David. This god damn motherfucking ableist and eugenicist medical system needs to go down in flames.
@kupo
Don’t forget the racism, cisheteronormativity, misogyny, and classism.
Sent. American healthcare really is a shitshow.
Helped a little more. I believe my monthly is still working. I may not comment much but this is a valuable site.
@Naglfar
It’s so much. I’m so tired.
Can’t afford much, but you’re welcome to what I can give – sorry things have been such a shitshow for you! Please keep going and don’t hesitate to reach out like this in future if you need the extra help. We need to know if you’re in trouble. Living in Australia, it’s easy to forget there are people in first world countries who cannot access free healthcare. And we don’t have universal dental cover, so I had to drop $300 this morning on getting a broken tooth fixed. I get it though, and I hope things improve, both personally and worldwide. Hugs etc.
Ah, yes.
David Futrelle: Obese, broke, shut-in.
Donald Trump: Leonine, rich, President.
Yes, yes.
I sell health insurance and I agree with folks. At least I can send some of the money I made during open enrollment your way.
I’ll do something in the next couple of days. It’d be helpful to retweet this post a few times so I don’t forget though.
Payday’s Friday, so I’ve kicked in what I can.
:/
I’ve kicked in $25. About the cost of a pack of energy drinks from Amazon. I can gag down some boring, yucky water for a month and give my organs a break at the same time.
Hope it helps.
I’ve donated and could give more after New Year but I need to see how my own financial month plays out (I get paid on the 15th p/m). How long can you hold out for David?
Thanks so much, everyone (even Sackus, for describing Trump, rather hilariously, as “leonine”).
Naglfar, the new project is a surprise but I hope to unveil it pretty soon.
Trump doesn’t really remind me much of a lion. He could be using it to mean “relating to Pope Leo”, but it still doesn’t make much sense.
That fellow sounds familiar. Could it be…Sack, coming back wearing a new hat?
Donated as well. Cannot afford to do it monthly atm, but plan on doing so in the future.
Curious as to the new project as well.
In any normal timeline, “Lol you’re less successful than the President of the United States” would be absurd to use as an insult. But we live in a timeline where said President has a gaping hole of insecurity where his soul should be, and his cult followers are desperate throw the entire world into that hole, even while knowing they can never fill it. It’s really quite moving, in a Lovecraftian way.
I rely on this site. It’s only fair that I help
Comparing Trump to a lion is a grave insult to not just lions, but all cat species.
And Trump is rich because his grifter father gave him millions. He still managed to go bankrupt, in the casino business. He had to be bailed out by Russian mafia money, which goes hand in hand with oligarch/Putin money.
So, if we’re comparing Trump and David for some reason, the latter is the man even though he’s not rich.
WWTH: yes, exactly.
I love all cats so that is an insult to cats.
I personally prefer David.
A rich douche who doesn’t care for anyone else or a cool guy?
It’s a no brainer.
Trump doesn’t even like cats. Or dogs, for that matter!
I’m allergic to cats ? (and that probably includes lions but I haven’t spent enough time around them to know) but I still think comparing Trump to a lion is an insult to lions. It also brings me to the question: does the manosphere like or dislike lions? On the one hand, they make memes comparing feminists to lions, but they also compare their dear leader to one.
Regarding Sackus, he sounds a bit familiar. A bit like this fellow.
@kupo
I’m glad he doesn’t have a cat or a dog. He’d probably be a horrible owner. No animal deserves that.
I figure this is the best thread to go OT on.
For background, I assume most have heard about the case in the UK where it was declared transphobia isn’t a protected characteristic, and thus a person can be fired for transphobic remarks. If not, here’s more information:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets
Well, J.K. Rowling has basically cemented her transphobe status now.
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033?s=19
Also donated $20USD. Medical debt is nothing short of an obscenity.
Get well, Dave. This blog means a lot to many of us, myself included.
I must admit how much the boast of the average Trump troll reflects their insecurity. I mean, let’s be honest here, nobody, not even Trump’s most ardent followers, would ever mistake this out-of-shape septuagenarian New York real estate scumbag as some kind of renaissance man. Yet somehow the Ben Garrisons of the world imagine this compensating-for-everything fancylad as some kind of chiseled Adonis with flowing golden hair and not the ambulatory hypertension with a spray tan and the most laughable comb-over on the planet we all know he is.
It’s like all those right-wing YouTube talking heads with Shutterstock avatars that commission artwork of themselves surrounded by scantily-clad (if not nude) women and bags of money with an arsenal of guns as if they were Tony Montana without the irony. Mr. Dapperton is the greatest example of this. (image is censored, but might be NSFW).
Seriously, what are you supposed to say to that beyond “thank you for showing us every neurosis you maintain, random YouTube dipshit”?