(01-02-2018 09:00 AM)atlant Wrote: People liked him because when it mattered, he was (and still is) a very competent speaker and debater
That's a good way to put it. Competent, although it's a bit like a chess master (not a grandmaster) playing against an amateur. He would not do so well against serious competition. Milo is good at what he does, but he's a lightweight, just like Michael Moore on the other side.
True but he leaves those debates to the boring old conservatives. His fan base is the younger conservative crowd who want their arguments presented in an entertaining way, not like some dry college professor.
Milo drops his lawsuit against Simon & Schuster after reviewing the documents disclosed to him after he started representing himself.
He says it's because it would have been too hard to prove damage due to the "millions" he has made off the book after he self published. As well as wasting 2 years of his life.
Milo is trying to spin it as a victory but to me it looks like he realised he didn't have a case and so dropped it.
Or he always knew he didn't have much of a case but knew it would be good publicity.
Considering the case was dismissed "with prejudice", does that mean he is liable for Simon and Schuster's legal fees?
When a lawsuit is dismissed with prejudice, the court is saying that it has made a final determination on the merits of the case, and that the plaintiff is therefore forbidden from filing another lawsuit based on the same grounds. Basically, it means Milo isn't going back to court over this same matter. The dismissal may or may not have included legal fees.
I saw him live in Santa Barbara, he can be pretty funny when he is in the mood. If the drive isn't that far, you might as well go and see if he gets a rise out of some SJWs.
Just a happy Monday greeting from the tolerant left.
Quote:I was just shoved and screamed at by a big group in a pub in Manhattan and forced out of the place. One of them was a reporter for Gizmodo. They were screaming at the top of their lungs about “Nazis” and “KKK”. Initially I was going to stay put obviously but they blocked me from my table and my bag and yelled at me to leave and it was about to escalate into something ugly. It rattled me a little bit (just slightly!), perhaps because I have something to lose in life now. My first thought was John and not getting myself hurt or killed. I don’t know how I’d explain to my black husband that I got hurt for being a “white supremacist”. I didn’t have security with me so I had to just get out of there. I won’t name the place we were at because the staff were really understanding and cool about it. But jeez. It’s now impossible for me to safely go out for lunch in most major cities in America because I supported Trump at the last election and don’t like feminism.
His newest sponsor has died of a drug overdose, forcing him to contract his business.
Quote:According to the sources, Yiannopoulos had been expecting to instead receive significant financial backing from the banking heir and cryptocurrency billionaire Matthew Mellon. But those hopes were dashed with Mellon’s unexpected death from an apparent drug overdose on April 16.
On Monday, Yiannopoulos posted a photo on Instagram of himself with Mellon. “I spent a few days and nights in Miami and LA with the incredible human being Matthew Mellon, the last of them just a day before he passed,” Yiannopoulos wrote in the caption. “He was brilliant, infectious and warm-hearted and I will never forget getting to know this remarkable person. Rest in peace now, MM. You left a giant stamp on the world.”
With Mellon’s unexpected death, Yiannopoulos could no longer afford the staff of Milo Entertainment.
“He fired everybody,” said one person familiar with Yiannopoulos’ operation, which had employed a handful of full-time and part-time staffers
Milo has the ability to churn out enough well written and entertaining articles to keep Dangerous going all by himself. But will he ditch the glamour lifestyle and quest for stardom to knuckle down? If no new financier can be found he may have to see if Breitbart will have him back.
Milo, on the eve of his Berkeley free-speech event, focuses mostly on his designer coat. Cernovich seems to be the only one focused on something other than the coat.
Quote:“Milo, what’s the deal tomorrow, man?” Cernovich said. “Are we speaking on campus? Off campus? What the fuck is going on?”
“O.K., so this hasn’t been announced yet, but we’re giving a big press conference on Treasure Island,” Yiannopoulos said. “I’m going to make my entrance by speedboat, with a camera trailing me on a drone, and we’re going to be live-streaming it all on Facebook.”
“I don’t do boats,” Geller said. “I projectile-vomit. But I love it for you, Milo, it’s a fabulous idea. I predict two hundred and fifty thousand viewers watching that live stream, at least.”
“I’ll be wearing this gorgeous Balmain overcoat—I’ll show you—with this huge fur collar,” Yiannopoulos said.
Geller and Cernovich changed the subject to Internet censorship. “They kicked me off Google AdSense,” Geller said. “I was making six figures a year from that. You can’t even share my links on Pinterest now! I’m ‘inappropriate content.’ ”
Yiannopoulos looked bored. “You guys are so selfish,” he said. “We used to be talking about me.” He turned to his stylist, a glassy-eyed, wisp-thin man, and whispered, “Go get the coat.”
They continued hashing out plans. “So we’ll walk in with you, through the streets of downtown Berkeley,” Cernovich said. “If there’s a screaming Antifa crowd, and if I maybe have to street-fight my way in and break a few noses in self-defense, that’s all good optics for me.”
“Maybe we should line up on the Sproul steps,” Yiannopoulos said, “surrounded by Berkeley students wearing ‘Defund Berkeley’ T-shirts.”
“Why don’t we march in with our arms linked together, like the Martin Luther King people, singing ‘We Shall Overcome’?” Cernovich said.
“We’ll do our thing, and then at some point the protests will turn violent,” Yiannopoulos said. “That will become the focus, and then we can just get ourselves out of there.” He reclined in his chair and smiled. “It’s all coming together,” he said.
The stylist came back with the coat, and Yiannopoulos squealed. “Pamela, is this coat to die for or what?” he said.
“Oh, my God, Milo, I’m dying,” Geller said. “It’s sick.”
He put the coat on and turned around, again and again, examining his reflection in the darkened glass of a window.
“It’s fabulous,” Geller said. “It’s sick. I hate you.”
Post edited beacuse I can't confirm. It was a screencap of a Milo posting on Facebook where he sounded really discouraged. I've seen a lot of liberals on Twitter schadenfraude but I'd rather not go to Facebook to confirm because its Facebook.
Milo is having a hard time in America. Recently he was dropped as a speaker for a political convention...
Quote:Bipartisan convention Politicon has uninvited Milo Yiannopoulos from its annual confab in Los Angeles, the convention announced Thursday, after many voiced criticism over the commentator’s planned attendance.
“Milo is no longer booked for Politicon,” a spokesperson for the convention told TheWrap. “We’ve had a couple of changes and with two months to go to the convention, more names will be added and dropped. Anthony Scaramucci is also not attending due to a scheduling conflict. We have some more names soon to be confirmed and announced so we’ll make sure to let you know.”
When pressed, convention organizers clarified that Milo did not have a scheduling conflict, like Scaramucci, but had been actively dropped by the organization.
Milo will get more funding from grassroots conservative supporters if he:
1. Drops the ostentatious lifestyle i.e. travelling with a dozen or so Luis Vuitton bags and wearing super-flashy designer clothing. Only millionaires will throw money at that and he's scared them off.
3. Stops chasing stardom at the expense of his true talents i.e. journalism and political/cultural debate. The college tour was great but if there is no money to fund it he must accept that gracefully.
His recent investigative article on the leftist subversion of Medieval Studies indicates he may be going back to his roots. His news site Dangerous has just had a revamp and I hope he succeeds in making it as well known as Breitbart.
Milo is right to an extent. Conservatives don't protest or protect their own and I include myself in that group, although being a million miles from any of these supposed culture war hot spots has a lot to do with it. The logistics for me are too expensive, we also don't have Soros type NGOs that pay us to travel and protest, it has to come naturally and on our own dimes. This probably is one of the bigger issues amongst many issues when it comes to right-wingers and displaying our ideas, we are just spread out (mostly living in rural/smaller cities) too thin across western countries, unlike leftists that collect on mass, in the globohomo-metropolises.
Nevermind the SJW stasi that will track you down with a photo taken at one of these protests and use it to wreck your career and social life.
Also even displaying support or commenting for things on social media can get you in hot water in real life if a SJW amongst your family/friends is a rat bastard, which all progs are, hence I delete em as I see em.
(08-26-2018 11:24 AM)rotekz Wrote: Milo will get more funding from grassroots conservative supporters if he:
1. Drops the ostentatious lifestyle i.e. travelling with a dozen or so Luis Vuitton bags and wearing super-flashy designer clothing. Only millionaires will throw money at that and he's scared them off.
3. Stops chasing stardom at the expense of his true talents i.e. journalism and political/cultural debate. The college tour was great but if there is no money to fund it he must accept that gracefully.
His recent investigative article on the leftist subversion of Medieval Studies indicates he may be going back to his roots. His news site Dangerous has just had a revamp and I hope he succeeds in making it as well known as Breitbart.
So you're saying conservatives would like him better if he hid his true nature? You're talking about a complete degenerate here, someone who's had butt sex with over a thousand random degenerates just like him, to expect this zebra to change his stripes is a bit naive.
(08-26-2018 11:24 AM)rotekz Wrote: Milo will get more funding from grassroots conservative supporters if he:
1. Drops the ostentatious lifestyle i.e. travelling with a dozen or so Luis Vuitton bags and wearing super-flashy designer clothing. Only millionaires will throw money at that and he's scared them off.
3. Stops chasing stardom at the expense of his true talents i.e. journalism and political/cultural debate. The college tour was great but if there is no money to fund it he must accept that gracefully.
His recent investigative article on the leftist subversion of Medieval Studies indicates he may be going back to his roots. His news site Dangerous has just had a revamp and I hope he succeeds in making it as well known as Breitbart.
So you're saying conservatives would like him better if he hid his true nature? You're talking about a complete degenerate here, someone who's had butt sex with over a thousand random degenerates just like him, to expect this zebra to change his stripes is a bit naive.
No, that is not what I said. I am suggesting that the issue many conservatives have with him is a vehement dislike of the promotion and glamourizing of degeneracy. Milo doesn't need to do it. He uses it as a shield from liberals and is a part of his persona, one that is carefully crafted to propel himself towards stardom.
Most conservatives don't mind that a man is gay in his private life. They just don't want such a man, especially one that is influential with the young through cultural outlets and the media, persuading their son that homosexuality and miscegenation is cool.
If he were to drop this promotion, then quit the flashy, money-burning lifestyle and also made a return to the investigative journalism that he is known for then I don't see why conservatives would have an issue funding such an effective warrior against the left.