I hope the former members of ACORN are enjoying a celebratory drink right now.

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    …and reminded those being laid off of their nondisclosure agreements.

    I’d like to remind all of those being laid off that this is an organization that has ceased operations due to lack of funding. Do they have enough money to pay a lawyer to enforce their NDA?

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    One of the journalists let go in the bloodletting on Wednesday is Bobby Harr, a former lead investigative reporter with Project Veritas. Harr told Mediaite he was “confused” when he was officially laid off on a phone call with Giles and Kiyak Wednesday afternoon – because he had already been let go from the organization last month.

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    [O’Keefe] … left the organization earlier this year amid allegations of improper spending of funds on personal luxuries.

    Oh, I missed this. I’m shocked. Shocked and apauled.

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    Misinformation machine mismanaged and in post mortem.

    Rest In piss.

    I love how the ppl they contacted were like “you morons fired me a month ago”.

    It’s all one big grift. Millions missing.🤷‍♂️

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    “The organization used to thrive and prosper. It’s truly sad to see what can happen to great opportunities with a surplus of resources when the wrong people are in power.”

    People don’t know the difference between “to thrive and prosper” versus “launder and hide” money.

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    Man, this is awesome. Hopefully all involved can find honest work to do now.

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      Spoiler, they won’t. They’ll go work for some right wing spin propaganda company or roll out new versions of the same bad faith, likely illegal, operation.

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        I know… but I don’t want to celebrate people losing their jobs (unless they are CEO’s or board members of almost any corporation) - the only way I could think to do that in this situation is to hope they get a job where they can contribute to society in a positive way.

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          No one worked for Project Veritas without buying into their mission. According to their 2021 Form 990, they had 59 employees and spent north of 6m on salaries. James okeef was the highest paid at 396k.

          These people were well compensated for years to do illegal and immoral things. Do not pity them. Save that energy for the people whose lives they’ve destroyed. They got Acorn shut down, which employed a bunch of people across a lot of communities doing actual good work.

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          It’s OK to celebrate bad things happening to bad people. Even if you yourself don’t want to punch a Nazi, you might have a problem if one getting punched in the face makes you sad…

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      Rest In Piss would be more appropriate but I reckon some of them might find this wish enjoyable.

      Let them rot in hell where they deserve