Instead, I was pleasantly surprised - at least, by the three episodes I saw. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become such a mess in general, and all the messaging around Echo has been so bad in particular, that I assumed the Hawkeye spinoff was going to be an even bigger disaster than Secret Invasion. Platforms come and go, but you all have stuck by me in a lot of homes, and I can’t say enough about how much that means to me. Regardless of where we are, I continue to appreciate your readership of this newsletter, any and all of you who click on the weekly links to my writing at Rolling Stone (which in turn helps me in the job that actually pays me), who buy my books, etc. So I’m going to play it by ear and see what happens next. As The Good Place and many others have pointed out, ethical consumption in a capitalist society is… not an easy thing. But I’m now more than prepared to quickly relocate if the winds shift in a bad direction again. If anyone feels like Substack’s latest response falls far too short and intends to unsubscribe to this and all other newsletters here, I get it and respect that. And there are certain conveniences to being here, for both me and for you subscribers. Again, the newsletter is free, so Substack makes no money off of me that can then be used to subsidize hate speech. But it’s something, and at least for the moment, it’s juuuust enough to keep me here. The statement given to Platformer is pretty mealy-mouthed, leaves a lot of room for interpretation, and seems inspired less by self-reflection than by the bad publicity and various publications either leaving or threatening to leave. Earlier this week, I had some great conversations with the extremely helpful leadership at Buttondown, and was in the process of moving this operation over there, when Substack finally, reluctantly, acknowledged that perhaps it did not want to be in business with people offering “credible threats of physical harm.” As discussed in the last few newsletters, I’ve been looking for an alternate home for the newsletter, due to Substack management’s reluctance to say that they don’t want to be in business with Nazis.
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