
You Can’t Just Call People a Nazi Because You’re MadOct 2
every few years, the same sad contingent of ruby on rails malcontents tries to cancel me. but now that the usual threats aren't working, they're upping the ante
Mar 21, 2025
Thursday, DoorDash announced a partnership with Klarna, which will allow its customers to pay with Klarna's Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) option. Predictably, the discourse exploded online, immediately organizing into two camps: communists convinced the deal was essentially one of the four horseman of the Trump/Elon/Techbro apocalypse — shrieking that the collaboration was a “uniquely terrifying proposition” in a “dystopian capitalist hellscape” (I'm quoting this verbatim) that would essentially usher in an unstoppable wave of debt slavery — and on the other side, shitposters who thought it was funny.
Look, we know — normally this is where you'd get 2,000 words on startups working on supersoldier tech, exploring a stablecoin bank, or why founders should get their companies out of Delaware (like, yesterday). But it’s Friday, and financing burrito limousines with Klarna is inspiring meme artists at a historic level. We’d actually be doing you a disservice by not sharing them.