“Communist” multimillionaire.
And yet he’s still a multimillionaire.
A REAL comrade would have given me some of that cheddah!
Dismissing proponents of a system due to their net worth in another is illogical and counterproductive.
It’s like jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, Christian love.
While you have a point this kind of self sabotage is why we’re letting the Overton window fly right.
Accept rich people who support leftist causes. Accept wealthy politicians that support leftist causes.
Under our system single moms with 3 jobs, ex felons, underprivileged families, simply do not have the power to speak out for themselves.
Your criteria just means you’ll never get help from anyone with power. You can’t alienate everybody with the resources to help.
See my response to @[email protected]. I’m glad he’s supporting leftist causes, but he also has some very disturbing views and is basically running a cult.
That’s fair nuance, I was reacting to the sentiment generally, but you have a point with this individual.
I see the same sentiment directed towards any government official or well off supporter of socialism and to me it rhymes with “but you use iPhone!” in that it’s invalid criticism as a general rule.
Your point stands in this case though, and so if anything I’m off topic.
Eh, being a millionaire isn’t as overwhelming a feat of capitalist accumulation as it may have been.
Plus he is genuinely using that money to support good causes where they present themselves, even if the interviews show he’s doing it for some very more money than sense reasons.
Especially in the American mode of politics though, class traitors to the rich should be more readily welcomed where they’re willing to take the back seat and fund what people on the ground tell them is needed, which this guy apparently has been doing until someone decided to track him down for an interview.
This guy is not the working class hero you think he is.
Fergie’s New Hampshire house, where he spends the lion’s share of his time, is modern; no walls, all blonde wood and sweeping views of the wet mountains bursting with late-summer green. The bookshelf is stacked high with dozens of copies of The Communist Manifesto and Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China. There’s a framed picture of Fidel Castro above a mini fridge cooling raw milk. A shotgun hangs on bike hooks along one of the rafters.
Fergie is pulling espresso shots on a nearly $6,000 Italian coffee machine when his older daughter, Anne Margaret Chambers, 14, with a neck full of hickies and wearing a ripped Pierce the Veil concert t-shirt, trips up the stairs from the basement to make herself two cheese quesadillas. Fergie’s other two kids from his first marriage, Nadya and James, live with their mother in Atlanta.
In addition to Fergie and Anne, Stella Schnabel, 39—daughter of the painter Julian, sister of the art dealer Vito—Fergie’s on-off partner, lives here, along with the pair’s two-year-old son, Viktor Gonzo Cox Schnabel Chambers. They’re all still getting their bearings in New Hampshire. They only moved here from Alford this past January for its lax gun laws and low tax burden, after Fergie decided to cash out.
“I don’t want to pay taxes to Uncle Sam,” Fergie tells me. “Objectively, somebody like me should pay almost all of their money in taxes, but if I can legally evade giving that to the U.S. war machine, I will.”
Fergie’s partner? Also worth millions. Weird how when he found love, it was a fellow member of the upper class.
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Once rich never poor, the saying goes, and with Fergie you can tell. He interrupts and embellishes. He remembers petty grievances like the time his dad got him a low-value Sharper Image gadget one Christmas, or when his Aunt Kathy, who he calls “the meanest person in the world,” accused him of stealing thirty dollars twenty years ago. He insists that he was his grandmother’s favorite, and that she would have wanted him to take over the company.
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It’s Wednesday, and Fergie is rolling joints in the kitchen. His partner Stella—statuesque, in leggings, and with her dark hair in a bun, just back from a month in the Hamptons with their son—is directing a team of movers who are shuffling around plush jewel-green sofas that were trucked up from her Brooklyn storage unit.
“He has his plate full,” says Stella, when I ask about whether she gets fed up with all the projects Fergie seems to be cooking up. He had just told us about a nearby mine that was up for auction that he wanted to buy. Stella adds: “I wouldn’t say managing people is his strong suit.”
He’s also living on a commune in the Berkshires (in what he himself calls a resort town) that is hoarding guns and harassing the locals and was arrested in 2013 on a domestic battery charge. He blames the latter on a drug binge, but drugs don’t make you beat your partner.
https://www.thefp.com/p/hes-got-250-million-to-spend-on-communist
Fuck Cop City but this guy’s obviously a more money than sense contrarian.
Does serve as an interesting model for future progressive donors to follow though.
A Putin sympathizer? Great /s
is this the onion?
