Not just public events but private ones too. I just invited 30 people to an event this month. There’s a lot of people in there that I don’t contact enough on a regular basis to get their email. It’s really tough to put something like this together without Facebook these days

Eh, I used to think like that, there was a time when it was popular to hate on U2. But really there are a lot of legitimate assholes out there who are actively making the world a worse place. His philanthropy is aggressive and attention seeking but the receipts are there and I’d much rather have someone channel all this energy and platform into pro-human rights than anti which is becoming increasingly popular these days.