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What is annoying is the original open letter failed to go into depth about all this. I'd heard rumblings about this around the original time he was removed from various positions, but the hard transcripts here really solidify the opinion RMS is a bit of a creep. Like, "pleasure cards"? Come on dude.

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He was told off for asking people out. His (an autistic man keep in mind) solution was "pleasure cards", as opposed to business cards. It's a very tame innuendo which suffers from outdated language. People don't use the word "pleasure" casually today.

Here's a picture of one of said cards - how shocking: https://twitter.com/bella_velo/status/1172524864193945603/ph...

I thought it was a pun on the silly question asked in old movies when you enter a country: "Business or pleasure?".

RMS hates business and renames everything, so it's a pleasure card. I wonder if he even intended innuendo other than being anti-business.

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