I just visited and read what’s been happening with substack writer known as Simplicius The Thinker, “Year of Troubles: The Hatchets Come Out for Substack and Simplicius”, who has two substacks, Simplicius's Garden of Knowledge, which was formerly Simplicuis76’s Battle Room, being the one I read rather steadily. The article he wrote is disturbing for many reasons, and I won’t attempt to provide any synopsis as its title does that well enough. I suggest it be read prior to the comment I made to it below. There were already 300 comments when I began writing mine, so finding it won’t be easy. Of course, a few will glimpse my opening sentences below and get an idea along with the header image I borrowed from his page. My comment:
Wow! Little ol' me with 1500+ free subscribers while presenting objectively truthful contemporary and historical content says the fucking USG supports Nazis all over the world, has overtly since 1945 and its mouthpieces have the gall to accuse Nazis of writing on substack when they live and work with them daily!?!? Yes, Stripe is a problem because of what it is and the system its connected with--Neoliberalism. I still don't get payments from my pledges going on 7 months now, not that they're many and I don't rely on my writing for my wellbeing. Yes, there're crazies with substack accounts, and then there're varying types of trolls, some obvious and some very sophisticated. My policy is to allow all comments as trolls will out themselves and usually get chased off by other commentators.
What I saw during my evaluation of substack prior to joining is it allows writers from the entire ideological spectrum, which is fine with me. Readers are the one's that choose the content they want to read. We're rather predictable in what we write, and our content is completely within First Amendment bounds. I consistently call the USA an Outlaw Empire because empirically that's exactly what it is, and I'd enjoy being challenged by the government on that point.
Yes, there's a smoldering fire remaining from 2020 that isn't at all what the Establishment Narrative wants people to believe. IMO, it's the Establishment and its Narrative the majority of US citizens want to oust--the situation isn't "Civil War" it's revolt/revolution. So, welcome back to the future of modernized McCarthyism.
Thanks very much for detailing your situation and that of substack. I was 100% unaware of the attacks being made against it, but they were expected. One very large lesson to draw from this is the nature of our national paradigm and its Anti-Americanness. The post-WW2 direction taken by the Outlaw US Empire made the current situation unavoidable. The American War to Regain Independence is impending.
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From the beginning, Substack only allowed payment to writers from rich, Western countries. Most of the world, which needs payment more, was excluded. Me too.
Substack is disingenuous hiding behind some monopoly trading banker. The banker turns into attack dog to erase unpalatable thoughts in its client's online host. History does contain some lessons in this regard. So really the ball is in substack's court to open up myriad channels to accept the cash - like immediately!. One can't really claim genuine free speech and then impose disingenuine closed finance and then say and do nothing when the hammer comes down.
Clearly an open global platform needs to be standing on a pillar of open global financial support and institutions. The westies are scoundrels.