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Is this a screenshot of a thumbnail?
It is indeed, sorry about that. I tried downloading the full pic instead, but I found it via someone else's search and Google's been ass about that kind of thing in recent years..
Shhh shh it's ironically shitty this was a genius move Nothing to see here folks
I see Taylor, so far as my knowledge extends, as being amongst the best of the bad lot. She seems genuine and willing to do the right thing. The few recent legal hiccups screamed lawyers doing lawyer stuff, and she even dialed back the whole plane thing. I mean, I don't expect her to take a sailboat across the Atlantic to get to a show and god knows I wouldn't fly public with her status cause fuck that.
She seems okay and it's probably better to focus on the actual sociopathic wealth hoarding jackasses who we know cause way too much harm right now.
She has the money to save the lives of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people through helping them out of poverty, funding food and medical care etc etc
A person deliberately choosing higher numbers in bank and stock accounts over this is a horrible person. Less horrible than actively harming and abusing similar amounts of people but nonetheless horrible. After all, if you see someone hurting and/or dying and make no attempt to aid (provided you have the means to do so), you are nearly the polar opposite of okay.
Yeah let's not be fooled by the one nice person among the tens of thousands of evil psychopats.
Not fooled by, no. In support of positive actions, yes. Blindly bashing someone for success, yes within a broken system, will just lead to any goodwill being justifiably dissolved. If all we have to do is come together and yell "That was a good choice!" every now and again to get people just like her to continue making those choices, well hell... I'm all for it.
For the majority though?
Yeah... they're fair game because they've shown they don't give half a shit about others.
Look what a pretty face does to a motherfucker.
Im sure she hoarded all that wealth through ethical behavior and her head doesn’t belong in a basket.
I see Taylor, so far as my knowledge extends, as being amongst the best of the bad lot
I agree on that. The best billionaire is still morally repugnant for being a billionaire, though. Every billionaire is a policy failure on the part of politicians and a personal failure of greed as well as alack of civic responsibility and solidarity.
She seems genuine and willing to do the right thing
I'd agree on that when it comes to being an LGBTQ+ ally and treating those that work directly for her well, for sure. Other than that, though, she seems to have a huge blind spot about how her own hoarding and other rich people behavior is detrimental to the people she owes her success to.
I mean, I don't expect her to take a sailboat across the Atlantic to get to a show and god knows I wouldn't fly public with her status cause fuck that.
Me neither, but she could just do fewer concerts and/or focus each tour on a narrow region to eliminate the need for traveling by jet between each concert.
The slogan "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is in order of what has the greatest impact and by reducing or even eliminating jet travel she could reduce the amount of harm she does IMMENSELY before she even gets to the money part.
She seems okay
Other than what I conceded at the start, hard disagree.
it's probably better to focus on the actual sociopathic wealth hoarding jackasses who we know cause way too much harm right now.
She causes way too much harm too and its not like I and most other people don't criticize the others more. It's not a zero sum game where you have to either never criticize her or never criticize for example Elon Musk.
The pattern of the wealthy indicates a natural disconnect from others. This isn't an excuse, it's just the pattern. When I say Taylor isn't terrible, I mean it through the lens of recognizing that pattern. She feels more human and more willing to make concessions. I would like it if the larger community stopped dropkicking the few not bad, potentially even okay ones, and started celebrating their positive successes in relation to making a positive impact.
Let's condemn the fuck out of actions that deserve it while also giving a solid thumbs up and recognition when they do good. Instead we universally condemn the existence of these individuals. Which would be fine, except a few of them seem to be trying to do some good. I say we support the heck out of that so they keep doing it. For most of us if we kept trying to do good and kept getting galvanized for it would tell the world to fuck off after awhile. I'd rather reinforce the positive within the conditions of a global society we live in and work from that foothold to grab the change we need.
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All Billionaires Are Billionaires ✊
All billionaires are Bad
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Gives a new meaning to say fuck 12
I'm of the mind that she is of use to my current aims so I'm indifferent to her, but at the end of the day she is still probably not on my side completely.
I'll take her essentially speaking against Republicans and being rich if it means Republicans lose because of it.
Did Tswift do something else? Because there are way worse people with way more money.
Unless you're not actually mad because she is a billionaire, but mad at her because she is progressive.
There is a certain amount of money that you can't amass and retain without extremely abusive and harmful to society behavior. I don't know the exact number, but it's far less than a billion.
I'm mad at billionaires existing because I'M a progressive, unlike her. She might be good with the LGBTQ+ allyship, but her money hoarding and excessive private jet use are incompatible with progressive values.
Okay, your feelings are valid, but why pick someone who's progressive? There are much better targets for your hatred if you're just mad at billionaires. I'm mad at a billionaires too.
I will happily dunk on Elon musk, bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, CEOs of large companies.
There are so many people with so much more money and so much more power and that are so much more problematic.
With so many other better targets. You're kind of coming off as someone who seems to have a problem with TSwift specifically. Just something to think about.
Edit: The amount of money you have does not prevent you from having a political position.
So, no guillotine pass for Taytay?
Nope. She has the option to escape by spending the majority of that dragon's hoard on improving conditions for the struggling majority, though, as do all other billionaires regardless of how they amassed far more wealth than is possible without abusive practices.
And not via the bespoke charity tax shelter loophole like most of them, either.
Could've at least made a photo of your monitor instead.
I love how Taylor is super evil to conservatives, even though there are way worse billionaires to focus on.
Oh wait, those billionaires pay think tanks like pRagerU to tell the conservatives who to hate lololol
And I love how neoliberals just automatically assume that there's nobody to the left of them, so all criticism of them and their favorite fellow liberals must be coming from the right 🙄
Unfortunately opinions are harmless
By themselves, sure, but get enough people to agree and they can shape entire civilizations.
Material Conditions shape people and thus their ideas, ideas do not shape people and thus their material conditions.
The good news is that this means that as exploitation worsens and Capitalism declines, worker solidarity rises along with revolutionary fervor (not necessarily violent revolution), and grand societal change becomes a forefront.
I keep seeing this showing up in memes. Was there anything particularly interesting actually being shown to her? Her expression is pretty funny.
This is the closest to a likely explanation for the expression I've seen or been able to find. Incidentally, that first link, the Lens search, is where I found the thumbnail of which this post was a screenshot 😁
Why do you seek validation from Taylor Swift?
I don't. Why do you think I do?
He isn't, he just wishes to get her to autograph his penis.
