dems the fact jack

Tax her, then

Yep, but don't forget the rest of the billionaire class.
- And the millionaire class.

Yay billionaires are cool now

Yeah how many people in the music industry's labor value has she taken?
- I mean, there's billionaires and there are asshole billionaires... I don't give two flying fucks about pop music, but she treated her people pretty well (originally read about this from a trucker friend) - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2023/08/04/taylor-swift-says-thank-you-to-eras-tour-workers-by-handing-out-checks/?sh=1011ea6470f6
  so while I'd prefer no or fewer billionaires, I'd really prefer rich people who treated their entire ecosystems well over the current hellscape.
  oh and TAX THE RICH. If they can stay billionaires by building new industries and competing for great workers by negotiating in good faith with union labor, that's fine.
  Trader joe, SpaceX/Tesla Amazon and a bunch of other fucks are trying to destroy the entire NRLB, because they hate unions and think they can get away with it. FUCK THEM.

There's nothing stopping me from writing a $480 million USD check either. Cashing it, on the other hand, that's a you problem.

I mean, there is definitely the hurdle of getting in contact with the bank, explaining to them what checks were, waiting for them to figure things out & explaining to me how that isn't a thing anyone, etc.
Seriously tho, none of my banks offer checks, and I don't know about any that do. Probably a US thing for paychecks from historically significant employers.
Edit: US, India, France (bcs they had/have no transactions fees), and Australia still use checks, the latter two plan to phase them out by 2030. A lot of EU countries just don't offer support anymore & cannot cash existing checks (neither at commercial or central banks).
- I love how you're being downvoted because the cavemen Muricans can't comprehend modern banking that doesn't involve cheques.
  Blows their mind when you talk about tapping to pay in the early 2000's. No Apple didn't invent it.
- To add to your list. You could still get checks in Canada as of a couple years ago, but virtually no one does that outside of some seniors who refuse to move on.

She easily could beat fat Don’s ass in a fistfight too.

Doubtful.
Look he's an asshole but he is literally double her body weight.
- Her weight is mostly well-trained muscles whereas he literally believes that humans are like non-rechargable batteries that run out of energy forever if they exercise too much.
  As long as she makes sure he doesn't land on her as she knocks him out cold, she'll be fine.
- He can barely bring a glass of water to his fat mouth— using two hands to steady it
- We're forgetting something important: he's really really really stupid, I don't know if he could figure out how to fight her

Rather than get mad that Taylor has an obscene amount of money, let's enjoy the joke on Donnie for not having as much as he pretended. Let's try to be happy about that, sheesh. He's being displayed as the fool he is and I'm gonna enjoy it.

I wouldn't mind the front of those buildings saying "SWIFT" after the city auctions them. Imagine Donny writhing.
- TayTay is too good of a business woman to invest into a failing building.

I wish my dad could buy me a recording contract

Let's say that whole idea is true: her dad bought her entire first contract and a warehouse of CDs to get her first album up to [checks notes] 19 in the charts.
Then what? So what? Genuinely curious what a generous startup payment has to do with her future success? How does that differ from parents saving money for their kids college tuition so they can go on to a successful career after? She certainly had a privileges growing up in an upper-middle class with a complete, supporting family that relocated to the heart of her original music's location, but how does that take away from the juggernaut of a career after that? Do you belittle great doctors if their parents funded medical school instead of fearing the debt and never starting? Do you think of an engineer any lesser if they drove 10 hours and dormed at MIT for their schooling instead of sticking with the local community college? This just comes across as being jealous her parents had some money and that she has proven to have talent. It's not like she invested $1bil of daddy's money to make it into $10mil by never turning profit and only keeping 10m by not paying any of the contractors.
I don't even like her music. I don't care for country and none of her pop follows the melody tones I like except one, single song. I just don't get what people try to say when they bring up her dad giving her startup money as a teenager. What, that it gave her a leg up? Nobody just gets lucky
- I'm not American and don't give a shit about American pop music. All of it is the product of nepotism and I hope that it all gets deleted. Death to America.
So you could wind up in the clearance bin in the Wal Mart electronics section?

I don't think paying bills is a flex he'd understand, in fact he probably thinks anyone that doesn't cheat the system is a fool.

He definitely thinks that, everything is zero sum for him.
Merkel had to explain eleven times to him that he can't make trade agreements with Germany, only the whole EU. He probably couldn't grasp the concept of mutual gain through cooperation.
- Which is weird because the exact same concept applies to the United States, and has for over 200 years

Jfc, I'm going to have a block list that will lag the entire internet by the time this shit is finished.

I reckon. Is there a way to effectively filter out American politics from my Lemmy feed?
- Need a safe space?
- You can if you use apps, don't know about other access methods. Most of the apps I'm aware of have some degree of keyword filtering.

Burgerland liberals not licking bourgeois boot challenge (impossible).

Yeah except probably not. Its not like billionaires have a savings account with $1,000,000,000 sitting there collecting 5% interest (much less sitting collecting even less interest in a checking account...)

They have a net worth based on tons of diverse (non-liquid) assets like securities, company ownership stakes, real estate, art, etc. To say nothing of their holdings in trusts and shell companies abroad, or whatever the latest tax avoidance strategies are.

Yep... It's reddit time 😎

mmm and she probably doesn't fuck with abdl like ol Dorito Donny the fascist cuck

Musk could, be he's too strapped for cash right now, so maybe it's a good thing he bought Twitter after all as he can't bail Donny out.

I hate what Twitter has become, but it keeps the muskrat busy tweeting nonsense, and it costs him a lot of money and time.

She also dated high schoolers so if you go into any business agreement I'm sorry for you being guilty by association.

TayTay 😍😍😍