Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door
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Reminds me of this headline from The Onion from right after 9/11
Fuck that’s accurate
Currently true as well.
No we managed pretty well.
I miss the time when the president wearing a tan suit was the biggest scandal in politics.
“We should stop indulging in celebrity and start GIVING A FUCK!”
“Okay, what should we care about?”
<insert list of cataclysmic horrors for which nobody in the audience has any agency>
“Wow, thanks. Now I’m full of helpless anxiety. Anything I can do about any of this?”
“DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING!”
“Well, this has been enervating as fuck. If you don’t mind, I’m going back to hide in my den and watch movies until the world ends.”
“Wake up sheeple!”
“OK cool youre right I see now, I understand. What are we gonna do about it?”
“They’ve played you for fools! WAKE UP SEE WHATS HAPPENING”
“Yeah I see its awful. How can we help?”
“You’re a pawn in their game WAKE UP”
“Fuck it gonna go have a wank”
I really despise this type of argument. There’s plenty you can care about that isn’t billionaire pop stars or famines.
Theres so much optimistic shit these days and education has never been this accessible. Join a book club, environmental club, local community, hobby niche, care about different countries and regions. I barely find enough free time for all these activities.
There are literally a billion things you should care more about than a billionaires getting engaged. It’s frankly disgusting.
I think the key here is “we”. Collectively if people had a common understanding of what is going on in the world they would be appalled and demand more of our leaders (or get new ones)
Instead people vaguely know what is going on, through the biased lense of their news sources.
I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you’d get a blank stare. If you ask them what is up with tswift they would excitedly explain that she just got engaged and recently had a crazy expensive tour.
How any of this gets corrected is beyond me, and that’s exactly how the people in power want it.
I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you’d get a blank stare.
Idk about that. His name has been in national news for decades. Like, maybe somewhere behind Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un in terms of US visibility.
How any of this gets corrected is beyond me
Say what you will about the Trotskyists, but they looooved making newspapers. I don’t think there’s a shortage of modern Alt-Media, either. Not hard to get an earful of press about the state of the world. What’s much more tricky is coordinating actions, particularly at the local level. There is not, to my knowledge, a Houston-centric news organization that does a good job of organizing and orienting local people on municipal issues. But I’m a white atheist professional worker out in the suburbs, so its very possible I’m just out of touch with what more radical and well-connected folks in churches and labor unions are up to.
Why does Taylor Swift get such a massive pass from everybody in terms of scrutiny?
relatability factor because of songs?
Ok that would be the part I understand, I am asking about the part I don’t.
What you don’t understand?
Seems like I see more memes about Taylor swift using jets then other celebrities. They’re all equally shit though.
Right?
Who gives a flying fuck?
I guess the answer is apparently a shit ton of losers with no lives of their own.
I feel insulted that I’ve even been forced to be made aware of this over the last 48 hours.
It isn’t helpful to think of them as losers. Like the image says, no bread all circuses. Without making any inferences about these two people pictured, the media and public focus on their engagement is in the service of maintaining and strengthening the status quo power structures.
Resist the urge to dismiss this as crank conspiracy thinking. There is a system, even if it wasn’t designed and even if it isn’t organized. And the media is by and large a tool of that system.
Yes but did you hear about Cracker Barrel??
That they fired Brad’s wife after eleven years of service?
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
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.
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.
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.
idk OP… this is a lot more effort than I put into things idgaf about.
The point here isnt whoever those people are.
That is a lot of effort to say that you don’t care…
It’s hilarious. Taylor Swift posts have to be the easiest rage/engagement bait for sports accounts that have ever existed.
love this and I love how it’s triggering all the Swifties
I’m marginally happy that anyone anywhere is in love. Cool beans.
Beyond that, I’d rather see people I know have happy and healthy lives. FSM knows they deserve it just as much as these two.
R’amen to that!
You are the decider of who deserves what? Jesus shut the fuck up
No bread , all circuses
I’ve been saying a variation for the past year or a bit longer “Circuses are cheap, bread is expensive”
That’s why we have so much entertaiment, but no housing.Except the circuses AREN’T cheap anymore either, what with the likes of Ticketmaster/Live Nation making it so a concert ticket costs as much as a car and the NFL’s only goal being to maximize the profits of the team owners.
Just to use the examples directly related to the billionaire and multimillionaire depicted.
Yeah, you’re right. I’m talking more about the clown shows in the news and political systems. Although a netflix subscription or a phone plan is a lot cheaper than a mortgage, and the boomers love to say that the computers and internet are why we can’t have houses.
Watching this idiot lipsync after flying in to a concert you paid a month’s wage for is a fucking insult.
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.
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
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.
Nah, why not both?
A limit of seats per person?
then they’ll bring along their security escort.
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.
The first I heard of Swift’s engagement was reporters asking Trump to react, cause every fucking thing is about Trump
