Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
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I fucking hate all the attention Taylor Swift gets. Yes she’s a talented performer. She is not the second coming.
Who is on the cover here? I dont follow celebrities.
Edit: comments mention Taylor swift and some dude named kelly
I only know this because he’s from my area and still does charity work in the area, Travis Kelce. Honestly I couldn’t care less about celebrity lives, but from what I’ve seen in local press he does seem to be a good guy.
Professional entertainment. The most grossly overpaid industry ever.
What I find hilariously, self-centered and tone deaf, funny is they announced the engagement on a day when across the NFL players were getting cut and losing their jobs across the league on cut down day.
40 of Kelsy’s team mates lost their jobs on that day. But I suppose overshadowing that got the NFL more clicks and eyeballs.
thats just the business of the league not everybody is good enough to make a team and nobody likes cutting players
If those people took school seriously and have other skills then great, they’ll do fine. If they’ve spent their whole existence on a sports career lottery ticket so they could be rich and famous and live better than us commoners, that was their choice. I’ll save my sympathy for people who get laid off from jobs other than sports and entertainment jobs that are only about clicks and eyeballs in the first place.
look how much i don’t care guys, i made a monument to the things i don’t care about.
not caring about things is not a virtue. you want people to care about something else you should work on that messaging. “you’re stupid to care about this” is reddit atheist coded bullshit that has never worked in the history of mankind.
It’s possible to not give a fuck about Taylor Swift, but still care about her and her fellow billionaires outright destroying the world while glitzy magazines treat them as main characters in a soap opera, just going about their glamorous exploits and intrigue. It is fucking stupid to celebrate Taylor Swift’s anything, for as long as she remains a prime example of everything that is going wrong in the world: massive hoarding of wealth in a winner takes all economy obsessed with intangible assets (notably brands and song rights), excessive personal consumption and burning of fossil fuels, hyper commercialized culture mostly void of artistic expression.
I don’t mind people that like her songs, but I’m fairly certain Swifties should be designated a death cult.
As many as one-third of the general public may experience celebrity worship on a borderline pathological level. source
better Taylor than a politician.
Better Carl Sagan than a pop singer.
Imo it is fucking stupid to care about this stuff though. Celebrity worship is a cancer. Obsessing about the love lives of total strangers because they’re famous is not only pointless but also destructive.
i don’t care about it but i also find the air of superiority from people who boast about not caring about this to be worse than actually caring about it. everyone cares about stupid shit. people just talk about this because it’s more demographically aligned with women. there’s disproportionate hate towards things women tend to like because we’re taught from childhood that it’s uncool.
guarantee most of the people shitting on it here either mald about some ladder they’re unhealthily trying to climb, or have a pokemon card collection, or treat that one movie they found to be super cool as their bible or some shit.
let people enjoy what they like. don’t act you only care about the environment and world hunger.
because society pushes women to like these things under social pressure. it’s kind of gross. there’s nothing wrong with things women like, but this is manufactured. But hey, better than MAGA’s worshipping drump.
yeah but what i said extend to everything women and especially young women and girls like.
distraction of the masses from politics, a tale as old as time. people are too invested in sports/celebreties often are very ignorant of the policies/politics around them, and they dont realize this just a distraction from Class issues.
This is exactly how i kiss as well. I’ve never understood why ppl purse their lips (you look like a duck!) . For me, it’s always been closed mouth, lips tight, and aiming for the mustache, so our lips dont actually meet and my mouth never looks weird for the cameras.
Hi sorry is this sarcasm as in you’re making light of how Taylor is missing the guy in the photo or are you being genuine
yeah im joking
Why does Taylor Swift get such a massive pass from everybody in terms of scrutiny?
Seems like I see more memes about Taylor swift using jets then other celebrities. They’re all equally shit though.
Yeah true, I guess I meant more before this recent uptick in memes/criticism. I don’t expect celebrity musicians to be paragons of virtue or fight every political battle for justice but I do expect… something? Like a little bit? Have a spine maybe?
I mean she can do whatever she wants, but that is the point right, she can do whatever she wants she is an unbelievably rich white lady who politicians and other powerful figures can’t touch without risking MASSIVE blowback in public opinion that money and distraction won’t be able to make go away.
relatability factor because of songs?
Ok that would be the part I understand, I am asking about the part I don’t.
People that idolize celebs are wild to me. Taylor wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire girl.
As I’ve gotten older my celebs are people that put tutorials on YouTube. Like oh shit, ishaan my favorite electrician just dropped a fire new video on neutrals and grounding on 3 phase. Or that one homesteader just dropped a short on how to grow bigger pumpkins, get the popcorn
Absolutely. I wish Taylor Swift all the best, just like I do anyone, but I couldn’t care less about her or her life. Alec Watson from Technology Connections? I’d take a bullet for that guy.
Alec taught us that Brown is just Orange with context.
That’s EXACTLY the video I was thinking about when I wrote my comment.
Neat coincidence.
I don’t wish all the best to any billionaire.
You’re a fundamentally failed human being if you allow yourself to hoard this much wealth. At least tech billionaires pretend to have some sort of ideal goal they’re working on but entertainer just be straight up pure narcissists.
I believe that the best for billionaires is to be relieved of the morally corrupting influence of their wealth, and I do wish that for them.
Yep, my thoughts exactly. Imagine if Swift had a crisis of conscience and decided to do good with all her money instead of being a scummy resource hoarder.
love this and I love how it’s triggering all the Swifties
If we ban private jets, billionaires will just buy every seat on the commercial jet. This will be even more inefficient fuel wise, and worse for the environment overall.
Don’t ban private jets. Ban billionaires.
Nah, why not both?
There is an African tribe that picks the wealthiest member of the tribe to take care of everyone until they are broke. They do this willingly because after they spend all their money the tribe takes care of them. They will never need a place to stay because anyone would host them. They don’t need food or clothing because anyone would give them whatever they need.
We need reset like this. A way to make wealth accumulation a positive thing.
Which tribe does this?
It was in my Anthropology book, I will have to go dig around for it. I tried a Google search but all I could get was crap.
It’s just one of those things that sounds sorta believable and has a feel good message but a lot of those are actually bunk
No, I remember reading it. There is a lot of niche knowledge you cannot find on the Internet easily.
There are a lot of African traditions around gift giving (like potlatch) and redistribution of wealth as well as concepts of collective wealth (Ubuntu). Here is an article that talks about it, but does not mention the specific tribe I was thinking about. https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/3600660/
With the article being rather long, does it mention the particular tradition talked about here? I don’t doubt you’ve read it, I am just skeptical if it is a real tradition. And it’s hard to gauge that with no info
It does talk about leaders not owning their wealth as it was owned collectively by the tribe. No, it does not mention this specific tribe. I can’t find my anthro book either.
I could have remembered it wrong. I spent some more time poking around the Internet this morning about chiefdoms. I still couldn’t find the specific tribe, but I learned some other interesting things.
There does seem to be some romanticizing small groups and the concept of tribal communism. So there is definitely something to support your skepticism.
This can be done right now. The problem is finding the people who want to live like that. So who wants to live like that? Please reply.
Obviously no one. That goes without saying.
Why? If you say that we should live like that don’t you want it for yourself?
I was saying we need something positive to benefit society and the wealthy person to deal with people accumulating too much wealth.
The story just shows us it is possible and makes me think of other possibilities.
Which other possibilities do you have in mind?
It has to be a solution that benefits both parties, but I also recognize that one party is giving up something tangible.
They have to be compensated in some real way. That is why I propose make a wish for the ultra wealthy. We pick an obscenely rich person, take 99% of what they own, and give them the one thing money can’t buy. A real wish that can be anything humans can reasonably provide.
A limit of seats per person?
then they’ll bring along their security escort.
No I am not entertained. In fact. I am fed up with all the coverage of them. Let them live their lives in peace so those of us out here tired of the show can also live in peace.
But at the same time, don’t obsess over a bunch of shit you can’t change. The doom and gloom is mostly there to sell you shit anyway. Unhappy people spend more.
You can’t fix it. It’s not your job. Unless you want it to be your job by running for government, just vote appropriately for people that might help fix it. That’s your little bit done.
Live your life. Go for a bike ride. Knock one out.
Oh? What am I being sold other than clickbait?
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Let people be happy about something. this is not helping anyone.
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if there is ONE person on the planet who would by popular vote be allowed to have a private jet, it’s TayTay.
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Gossip was and is a part of human nature, denying it makes no friends for your cause. Don’t call it bullshit, just because you don’t care.
If you want to DO ACTUAL GOOD:
put a story of palestinian/israleli couple on the fake front page.
Highlight the out of control Israel government with a story that shows protests in israel.
Be FOR something instead of AGAINST something.
How about you let people be mad about something then? Maybe change can happen. Take your own fucking advice.
Stop promoting celebrity worship you ghoul.
This made me laugh, thank you :)
I am FOR the end of billionaires and celebrity worship.
That’s the sprit :)
You can argue they are for the end of worthless celebrity worship. Which is something I stand with
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Yes but did you hear about Cracker Barrel??
That they fired Brad’s wife after eleven years of service?
Never forget. Never forgive.
