• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I think they’re downvoting me for saying she’s a generally decent person considering some of the replies I’ve gotten.

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      9 months ago

      Well, we got some overriding scenario blasting away all nuance.

      It’s hard to be sympathetic toward a fundamental privacy limitation associated with flying in a plane exclusively owned by you. So in this context, it’s easy to equate “Leave Taylor alone!” with "it’s sad how she can’t fly in her private jet without being tracked, there’s nothing she can do!’

      Now broadly speaking, I get that a lot of unreasonable piling on is coming with it, but the private jet is a symbol of excess and environmental harm and it’s inherently a risk to hop into that whole mess. Particularly when she could charter private flights to the same effect without the tracking (still excess and environmental harm, but at least obfuscated from public eye a bit).

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        9 months ago

        I never said she should be left alone or that it’s sad that she can’t fly without being tracked.

        I don’t care if she can be tracked when she flies. I said she was in the wrong here. All I said was that she generally comes across as a decent person.

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          9 months ago

          Yeah, unfortunately, it’s the internet so we don’t take kindly to nuance around here.

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        9 months ago

        Whatever. If people don’t like Taylor Swift it doesn’t bother me. To be honest, I’ve only ever heard one of her songs all the way through. She just has done plenty of good things. This is one of the few things I’ve heard about her that wasn’t her being a decent person.

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          9 months ago

          I have also never knowingly heard her music. It’s not that I avoid her, I just have never listened to pop music in lieu of jazz, classical, or world. But she does seem to be an upstanding person for the most part.