You are the real hero
I bet they wear a cape, when no one’s looking
This article could’ve been a PNG
But you’d miss this the part where they mention that trump claimed he made Taylor swift “so much money” and that she’d be “disloyal” if she supported Biden “like she did in 2020.”
What the fuck is that geriatric diarrhea bag even referencing.
But on the whole, yeah. Huffingron post is basically twitter news. Which is…fucking insane.
Alas, the website only has a text LLM to generate content.
But that wouldn’t justify a “journalist’s” pay cheque.
I think in basketball they call that an alley oop.
Just needs to bring it up to date to include:
- legally adjudicated rapist and serial defamer
- indicted on 91 criminal felony counts
What other bullet points are we missing? The list is so long, just got to hit the highlights.
thanks! I really don’t want to give clicks to huffpo
Well, I can’t say I can name even one of her songs, but if she triggers magats and has Luke Skywalker on her side, then I guess it’s time to get Swiftie in here or whatever.
I have heard literally one of her songs and only because I was being paid to write a parody of it, but based on her overall behavior, she seems like she’s better than pretty much every other billionaire out there. Admittedly a low bar, but still something.
There was a pandemic era interview of her that was really poignant and insightful. She knows and things about quite a lot. Her Midnights album had a lot of self criticism and reflection, and she’s commented a lot more about unfair gender norms.
She also kept a music store in Nashville afloat during the pandemic, and she’s really generous about health insurance and bonuses. Her truckers for her tour got $100k in just bonuses.
I’m a fan. I think as far as billionaires go, she’s achieved it in the only ethical manner possible. Being a global music sensation is pretty much the only way to do so – if she has even just 100,000,000 fans globally, each just needs to spend $10 for her to make a billion. And honestly, I don’t think that fan number is that off.
Sure, she makes and made mistakes. She’s human. But all in all, I quite like her. I’m biased certainly, I grew up listening to her music. I listened to it a lot through a lot of loneliness, and at some of my lowest points, I was listening to “this is me trying” daily (and “beautiful” by Eminem, an odd pair to be sure).
I’m a 29 year old man and I’m happy to call myself a Swiftie haha
I give her props for writing her own songs in an age where everyone on the radio uses the same five ghostwriters.
Just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed reading your take on Swift. Thanks for sharing. ☺️
Rowling used to be my example of a good billionaire, then she went all TERF-y.
Rowling earned her billion ethically – she just turned out to be a unethical person, and it wasn’t known until much later.
Alongside Taylor Swift it highlights the only way to ethically be a billionaire – mass global popularity. When you have 100,000,000 fans, and each of them spend just $10 on a book or album, you make a billion.
>Rowling earned her billion ethically
citation needed
She famously wrote books that sold well and then she sold rights to movies and video games based on those books which got her even more money.
If you’re saying that is unethical then the onus is on you to tell us how.
Just want to throw out there that those were fantastic video games too! Goblet of Fire and sadly Deathly Hallows were fairly sucky adaptations, but all of the others were amazing, high quality games.
I recommend everyone pay them, but given that Rowling is a TERF, you’ll want to pirate them.
copyright is immoral
copyright is immoral
citation needed
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Not inherently, but the way it’s currently set up sure is.
Is it immoral for an artist to charge money for their art?
Money is power and power corrupts 🤷♂️
So basically not starting a rocket company?
Sure, if that’s your metric. I was thinking of things like paying people fairly and agreeing to every single strike demand so that the WGA and SAG-AFTRA agreed to approve her releasing her concert film in the middle of the strike and getting thousands of her fans registered to vote…
I would say your metrics are probably better. I was just trying to see where the floor was between good and bad billionaires. That seemed like the first step
Shit on the floor!
Check out some of her re-releases. 1989 Taylor’s Version is pretty solid all the way thru.
The new songs she’s added with it are really really good too. “You are in love” is I think one of my favorite love songs ever.
She also has the Joker on her side though :/
An article…about a tweet…quoting another tweet.
I mean, it’s mildly interesting, but I don’t know that this is really news.
The page also doesn’t load for me. Probably because I block so much bullshit. Don’t know the quote, don’t care. Time to keep scrolling 🤣
Yeah, but to 70 million people watching Fox News tonight, Luke Skywalker, who worked for the woke, child-grooming, deepstate, communist Disney coporation, is a socialist libtard. It’s going to be a global headline and breaking news.
An article…about a tweet…from a celebrity…quoting another tweet…from a celebrity…from half a decade ago…in a political discussion forum.
Trump, meanwhile, has claimed he made Swift “so much money” and argued she’d be “disloyal” if she supported Biden, like she did in 2020.
Buzz word disloyal Means a green light to followers.
MAGAts: “Y’all hear what Trump wants us to do?”
Thomas Edison: “I’m deaf in one ear and I heard that.”
Beethoven: “Tommy, my boy, I’m deaf in both ears and I know what he meant.”
Helen Keller: Yeah, it’s clear as day what he’s saying.
Bingo
Trump said the class war part out loud
He wrote most of her songs.
Duff man says a lot of things. If you are still listening your brain will just stay hurt. Ignore the trolls.
Everyone that clicked on this article please be aware that we are the problem behind why news agencies don’t cover real news anymore.
Jokes on you, I only read the comments!
Same, but even our interest in other peoples views on the topic at hand contributes to the superficial topic getting more views
My dude, if you think this level of superficial bullshit is new in any way, you might want to brush up on your history. This kind of nonsense goes back centuries.
Obviously it isn’t new, but it’s important to point out so people can acknowledge it and work to avoid engaging in it in the future. Periodically engaging in this content is fine, that’s why we had tabloids, but old companies that specifically worked in journalism that have been bought and re-aligned with tabloid-esque behaviour is because we are willing to click on it.
A few less clicks and more reflection on the things we click can go a long way, in my opinion.
You raise absolutely valid points, but the obvious counterargument to your point is that serious journalism still exists. Tabloid click bait nonsense has been around since the printing press, and serious journalism has still existed throughout all of it. To say that “news agencies don’t cover real news anymore” is hardly different than the pearl-clutching nonsense from the very same tabloids you’re railing against.
I’m not trying to defend this schlock, just reassuring that quality journalism is under no threat of actually dying. As long as there are people who want to be heard, they’ll find a way to be heard.
I don’t disagree that quality journalism exists, however I would posit that current day journalists have more incentive to cover nonsense like the current topic as opposed to serious issues like tax avoidance from billionaires or inappropriate gifts, travel and monetary donations to various individuals in power (and their backing bodies) from multinational corporations and their associated c-suites. A key issue of note is the increasing rate over the last few years in which individuals with journalistic integrity are being shunted aside or outright murdered, or imprisoned, for their investigations into such things (kashoggi being one of the largest international examples of this, but I would posit the majority of individuals that work for the ICIJ would fall under that umbrella as well, seeing as a number of them have been murdered in recent years, which in my opinion deters serious journalism that holds those elected to account)
I would also note that the international nature of corrupt banking and the intertwining of banking interests with military industrial interests creates a system of active suppression and aversion.
Especially given the inherent need for local journalists to travel abroad to unfavourable countries to get answers from multinational companies alleged to be engaged in nefarious actions whether directly or within their supply chains.
This quote from the official inquiry regarding the murder of Daphne Galizia is particularly chilling in my opinion:
“The fact remains that in the board’s opinion, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s writing about the intimacy between big business and politics led to her assassination.”
Apologies in advance for link spam. Sources in case you may have missed any of the above/in case others would like to dive further:
Two international investigations shut down with direct violence:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/timeline-of-the-murder-of-journalist-jamal-khashoggi
Links supporting notes about missing/murdered journalists:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/10/42-journalists-killed-over-their-work-in-2020
Specifically murder in relation to their investigations. You’ll notice a trend between terror and banking crisis years and increase of journalist murders. 2023 was lower but appears to be an outlier, here’s hoping the 2023 trend continues:
https://cpj.org/reports/2020/12/record-number-journalists-jailed-imprisoned/
https://cpj.org/data/?status=Imprisoned&start_year=1992&end_year=2023&group_by=year
https://cpj.org/data/missing/?status=Missing&start_year=2024&end_year=2024&group_by=location
(cpj.org is a pretty decent resource for keeping up to date on the amount of missing/imprisoned/killed journalists worldwide)
ICIJ link because I think they do good work:
Ground news link to assist with sifting through biased articles (I’m guessing more people are aware of this, but I have found it particularly useful these days with certain organizations choosing to omit facts or present an incomplete scenario to push a narrative)
Never read the article and go straight to the comment section gang wins again 😎
I don’t even go to the comments. I just form an opinion based on my 3 favorite words in the post title.
Good thing I never click the articles.
Subs like this should have a rule against clickbait bullshit like that anyway. Mention Trump, Taytay and Mark Hamill in the headline, and yet leave out any information from the Tweet itself. As if a Tweet from years ago is fucking news in any case.
The internet is a cesspool of sensationalist nothing.
If you don’t think Trump’s potential re-election isn’t THE news story of the year, I don’t know what you think real news is.
But what Mark Hamill thinks about Taylor Swifts tweet about him isn’t.
His potential re-election is both obvious and concerning.
A celebrity with no formal education or experience in politics, geopolitics or law has no place speaking on it to the public. Opinions are fine, but people on the whole seem to be unable to make clear in their own minds that the opinions of a celebrity are opinions wholly based on their personal purview and not professional experience.
Apparently she secretly coached her boyfriend to win the Superbowl or something
Oh absolutely. Without help from a pop star there’s no way the professional football player would know what to do.
Can she take a job with the Chargers?
Didn’t everyone already know even before 2016 that he was a narcissistic rapist with the IQ of a damp rag?
Yes. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Repubs want.
America is a country that rewards sociopathy, and conditions its citizens to think that the most heartless among them are the most awesome.
Yes, unfortunately Trump and Co. are reflection of voter values.
A lawyer for damp rags is gonna make a killing off the defamation suit they’re preparing against you.
No problem. I’ll just apply to run for president, then claim the process is in the way of my getting elected.
Yeah but now we also know that he routinely shits himself as an expression of dominance.
Other than her songs she literally has not said anything about politics this round but everyone is freaking the fuck out.
So much stupidity
Other than her songs she literally has not said anything about politics this round but everyone is freaking the fuck out.
So much stupidity
They fear her potential, so they try for a pre-emptive strike.
Insecure conservative men truly fear and dread women who hold their own power.
You missed this part:
this round
Her original tweet is from 2020.
One would assume that she hasn’t changed her mind on the matter.
It was a good opinion, so I hope she didn’t change it.
But it’s irrelevant to the fact that she didn’t express it.
Ass U Me, that all ya do make an ass out of you and me, isn’t it?
Trump tards are so blinded that they don’t realize they’re the ones doing the job for her.
Mark Hamill is a treasure, but why can’t he be on Mastodon? George Takei has 420k followers, and he could too.
Because Trekkies understand Tech and Warries understand Religion.
Star Trek: mostly hard sci-fi
Star Wars: fantasy space opera with magic powers
hard sci-fi
O.o
Mean for hundred of years in the future it may be hardish sci fi…they at least use made up words to explain things rather than just saying it works. Though I do agree, it’s no The Expanse (minus the gateways), Altered Carbon (without the consciousness put on a chip), Battlestar (without the teleporting)…wait not sure what the reasoning was. Those were just some of the first hard sci fi hits from Google for me.
Though Star Trek is more out there for sure, in not sure it’s much worse than others…maybe transporters being the worst for the category.
It’s aggravating that Twitter is still treated as the public square when half of the public has abandoned it.
Even with a mountain of earned media (AKA free publicity), loosening restrictions and enforcement on bot accounts and trolls, and tens of billions of dollars of new investment, It’s dropping rapidly off the social map. It’s less popular than Instagram, Telegram, Weibo, and Facebook Messenger (not Facebook - Facebook Messenger). Every time I see a news article promoting it I cringe. When I see people who should know better sticking around to prop up the dying platform it’s beyond disappointing.
At it’s height there were twitter accounts for something like 1/4 - 1/3 of the population in most developed countries. That is huge, but it was never the universal adoption that heavy users seemed to think it was.
It generated/generates news because it’s easy to see and short enough to digest quickly, not because it’s a representative sample.
hehe… Hamill does a better Luke Skywalker IRL than anything anyone could write in the last 25 years.
nice
1999’s Luke Skywalker and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
James T Skywalker and the Lasso of Truth
This used to be politics, not celebrities.
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I’m so sick of seeing her name. I don’t care what celebrities think about politics, they’re either part of the ruling class or are a willing servant.
Swift puts out more carbon than hundreds, maybe even thousands of other people. I couldn’t care less what she thinks about trump. Yes he’s an asshole that I want breaking rocks in prison, but you really don’t deserve input.
I disagree. She’s got a platform that reaches people. If this is the thing that pushes younger people to get out and vote against Trump, then I’m all for it.
Do I think it’s short-sighted to vote on what a celebrity says? Sure, and I wouldn’t do it. But I’m also interested in US politics, and a lot of people aren’t/tune it out. I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth if this is where people find their motivation.
Her carbon footprint is irrelevant to her political affiliation.
Mark Hamil can go take a luke skywalk
Look at the date. Oct 8.
On Oct 7, Hamas launched the surprise attack on Israel. The Israel military response didn’t even start until the end of October. I take no issue with someone expressing their support on Oct 8.
It was a bad take before that date as well.
He says #Always
This man is 3 years younger than israel itself. If he doesn’t know anything about it by now he should shut up about it. He helped manufacture consent for genocide.
As much as nobody here supports the genocide in Gaza, you can still be supportive of the families of Israeli civilians that were murdered on Oct 7th without selling your soul.
That’s not what his tweet says whatsoever.
He says he supports israel. Not “My thoughts and prayers for the innocent civilians killed on october 7”.
What Hamil does is like saying you support Hamas instead of saying you support supporting Palestine.
Yeah, and how many teen couples will tell you they will always love each other?
Exaggeration is a thing.
You know how Zionists say they will always unconditionally support israel, And then when israel does genocide again they still unconditionally support israel?
