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Maybe it was because Matt Mullenweg was alleged to have committed fraud through a company he and his mother run through strange business practices, along with islamophobic & sexual harassment and a swathe of other forms of racist harassment, including anti-blackness, specific racism and fetishism towards East Asian women, hatred of Mexicans, along with various slurs (.29). All this was revealed by former employee who was a Muslim woman who experienced racist and islamophobic, & sexual harassment by Mullenweg's mother and harassment specifically for her wearing hijab (.28).

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Don't take it from me though! Take it from the lawsuit:

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Just for further clarity, because I realize most people reading this post won't open the links, for the part about the fraudulent business plans and behaviour, it's discussed very shortly in paragraphs 10-15. Fraudulent business practices were not the primary reason for the lawsuit and they were not primary aspects of the allegations, but they were present and it was worth mentioning due to the irony of the present treatment tumblr has of Muslim majority nationalities currently.

I drew a little comic for @hiveworks' Micro Comic Summer! It's a fun blend of my two webcomics, hehe! Check the #MicroComicSummer tag for stuff others have drawn too!

METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN - released worldwide on September 1st 2015 -

One again, it's not a moral issue, we're talking about class differences and your relation to the means of production. You are very much in possession of your own means of production; what you collect within your small business, or whatever you wish to call it, IS your capital.

With that said, the problem arises when there is an socialist revolution,. You'll either have the choice of proletarianization or you'll join the bourgeoise class in trying to save your company and your means of production, and historically, small business owners sided with the fascists, that's literally why Mussolini's Italy was so appealing to business owners, whether small or big. It's not bad when you become part of the working class, you'll still have an income, it's just not through the means of profit, but rather through a wage in exchange for your labour power. The reason why we discuss petite bourgeoise is because of the reactionary attitudes that may take place as a result of when you have to abandon your small business for a collective ownership of the means of production. This is why commies have such an issue with IP and copyright laws, since they are reactionary. The question here is: if you're an independent artist on patreon, OF or whatever, how will you react once the has come for a proletarian revolution?

your work becomes a part of the public good; good life for the proleteriat also includes exhbitions, plays, literature, dramas, etc. thats why my ex-socialist country supports creation of art through public funding (like open calls for books, for libraries, for gallery exhibitions and so on and so on).

i have something called "the independent artist" status which is a remain of socialism - basically, with enough exhibitions and proof that my work contributes to the quality of the culture within the country, i am de facto an artist of the state. it means that my healthcare and pension are being paid from the taxes. i am required to partake in state exhibitions and continuously make and publish my art to prove that im contributing something to the culture.

obv its not the same as in socialism considering that well, we live under the capitalism, but these art funds are a remain of that time. and youd be surprised - there are less artists in the world than tumblr makes you think. if you worked as an animator in the studio, its similiar to working in the factory - you sell your labour power, not your finished pieces, and if youre an artisan, youre in a small class of people who wont suddenly be annihilated when socialism appears. things will change, of course.