Why biz owners who lean right shouldn’t use MailChimp

Jimmy Kimmel was fired the day before I wrote this. 

Good riddance and about time. 

Nobody was whinier, more of a left-wing shill, and hopelessly as unfunny as Jimmy was. I’ve long since told you that we’re no longer in the Information Age and instead the Entertainment Age, so it was only a matter of time before Jimmy’s show went the way of Colbert’s (equally awful) late night “comedy” show. 

Mesuspects that Jimmy wouldn’t have lasted much longer anyway - but trying to blame Charlie Kirk’s assassination on “maga gangs” (his words, not mine) was the final nail in the coffin. 

Of course, people on the left are freaking out about this, as they do. Despite the fact that they not only celebrated the assassination, but also couldn’t contain their joy when Roseanna Barr, Gina Carano, Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, and Tucker Carlson got fired or canceled. They also tried their hardest to cancel Joe Rogan, Dave Chapelle, and JK Rowling for not bowing to their weird and twisted and ever-changing stances. 

I’m not shedding a single tear for anyone who’s gotten fired for celebrating the brutal murder in broad daylight. 

But while the cultural tide has been changing for several years now, these things tend to become vulnerable to the rubber band effect - where they snap back in the opposite direction swiftly and without notice. 

Take, for example, the firing of one Jimmy Kimmel. 

Just a few short years ago, this would’ve been unfathomable. Even if he lost as much money per episode as Colbert’s show did. 

(Maybe it was USAID propping up these propagandists… or maybe it was Maybelline.) 

And yet, as of a couple o’ days ago (at the time of my writing this), he has been cancelled. 

It can happen that quick. 

Here’s why I bring it up:

A few years ago, MailChimp got in big trouble for playing politics with their customers. There’s a genuine trend of these large tech companies and corporations literally hating their customers. I won’t pretend to know why. 

But it’s my duty to protect my audience from external threats that can doom the businesses they shed blood, sweat, and tears over building. 

And so, if you lean to the right even at all or are even slightly left-of-center, avoid MailChimp at all costs. 

Why?

MailChimp literally banned The Babylon Bee (a satirical news site that replaced The Onion when the latter fell off) from their platform without warning. MailChimp blamed their algorithms and eventually reinstated BB’s account. But I won’t forget. 

Now, BB is lucky because as a media site, email is a little further up the funnel than it is for many businesses where email is the last step of the funnel to becoming a customer. So, it wasn’t as bad for them as it would be for you. 

And you know what?

Who knows when the cultural tides will swing back again - and your business doesn’t deserve to get caught up in a political shitstorm because you willingly paid a company who was open about hating your guts. 

MailChimp likely hates your guts if you lean right (or even left-of-center). 

They’re also not fans of the alternative health space in general either. 

Plus, there are simply better email marketing softwares to use anyway. 

Moral of the story?

Do your due diligence before paying anyone - including freelancers, agencies, software companies, anything. 

Email is still far better than social media because you own your email list and don’t own your followers. But it’s still a headache-and-a-half for your email platform to ban you because they didn’t like something you said. 

Anwyho:

Reply if you’re not making at least 30% of your revenue from email and you want to. 

John