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CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros (lemm.ee)
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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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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/glowie-glowposting

Glowie, also known as a Glown****, is a slang term popular on 4chan's /pol/ board used in reference to CIA or other governmental agents posing as ordinary 4chan users in order to bait others into sharing incriminating information.

In 2017, schizophrenic computer programmer Terry Davis, known for his TempleOS software that he claimed was dictated to him by God and meant to be God's third temple, made a video showing off various aspects of TempleOS. In the video, Terry says, "The CIA n*****s glow in the dark, you can see them if you're driving. You just run them over, that's what you do."

The term "glow in the dark" refers to the obvious nature of their camouflage, leaving them exposed when they're trying to hide in the shadows.

In fairness to Brave CEO I did not know it had racist origins and only thought it referred to the last paragraph.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's fucking weird that not 3 or 4 days ago.. I was literally reading about Davis. And the glowing CIA ranting that he was doing. Total coincidence

[–] fluf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago

4chan adopted it from him iirc

[–] TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for the reply!

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

That's the problem with racist bullshit. They scrape the racism off and peddle it everywhere until it's widely accepted and not tied to it's roots anymore.