says-rights.bsky.social
My ferret is Sif. He/Him.
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Hey, The Atlantic, there's still time to delete this
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You misspelled "Jeffrey Epstein", but bad news my guy
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Jokes aside, like 80% of check engine lights are for an oxygen sensor detecting that your car's air fuel mix is a little rich or lean, leading to minor decreases in efficiency and or power so like..yeah
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Referring to the ongoing eradication of an indigenous culture by colonization as an "old grievance" really underscores how unwilling you are to understand where others are coming from.
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I'm about as pro-space science and anti-religion as they come, but I'm also against the building of this telescope on indigenous Hawaiians' sacred mountain because it is, frankly, ethically and morally wrong to fill their homeland with colonizers and drown out their voices in affairs there.
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It's not just about religion. It's about hundreds of years of encroachment on indigenous culture and the gradual eradication of that cultural identity in the name of progress - as defined by primarily white colonizers who set up shop and told the indigenous people how it's gonna be.
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About 47 sausages in that's gonna become really important
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And to be clear: Swift vocally agitating for artists to own their own stuff and against scammy record label contracts does more for poorer artists than her spending 300 million dollars on her own masters could ever achieve.
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Honestly even if a significant portion of the various cash drives ends up being scams, so Iong as it's not a vast majority of scams (and it's not), the effectiveness of direct cash aid to the needy makes it worthwhile. Focus less on truthering every person asking for help and more on helping.
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It's amusing that you're calling a relatively mild criticism of a billionaire an attack. It's not. It's criticism. Swift seems like a more or less decent person, but this act was a waste of money that could have gone to something that would actually help people. That's all.
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I haven't moved my goalposts at all. Swift spending 350m on her masters is lame and dwarfs her philanthropy. It did nothing to alter the paradigm of artists not owning their own music, because 99.999% won't be able to fork over millions for it.
That money would have better been spent on humans.
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I agree - creepy little Neo-Nazi Elon Musk should also give all of his money to un-fuck the planet. Elon Musk was still not the topic of this thread.
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Yes, she disrupted the status quo and now all of the artists worth 1.5 billion can own their work by shelling over huge amounts of cash to a corporation! Inspirational.
If she'd spent $360m to get a law passed to make it illegal for corporations to own artists' work, I'd probably agree with you.
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Assuming your only option is capitalism, yes, of course. However, "all artists should own their work" and "billionaires should use their money to un-fuck the world that the existence of billionaires has fucked up" can both be true at the same time, and the latter by far takes precedent.
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Only if the amount of money spent on the masters could have otherwise eradicated hunger in a small country
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How in any possible way could you get that message from my reply
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This is correct, yes. When people have buying power on the scale of cities, states, or even small countries, their choice to spend that on themselves exists in an entirely different context.
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I think Swift is a much nicer person than most billionaires, but I guarantee that those "large amounts" are a pittance compared to dropping a third of a billion dollars to buy back her masters.
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And I'm going to guess those charitable donations totaled a shitload less than 360 million dollars.
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Tell me more about all the philanthropic projects that Rockefeller built
Real talk: all that is nice; it's also good publicity and most of that is a charitable tax writeoff that every ultra rich person engages in. Not to say those aren't nice things. But they also financially benefit Swift anyway.
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Tl;Dr - Bluesky has graduated to Coolee Bravo status
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What? No? This post wasn't about them, this post is about Swift. I'm not sure where in my mild, obviously socialist critique of Taylor Swift in a post about Taylor Swift, you could without bad faith contort that into a tacit endorsement of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. Jesus fucking christ
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A helluva lotta people whose work was 100% necessary for Taylor Swift to become rich had almost all of the money their work generated paid to Taylor Swift and record labels instead, so "her own money" is relative
Also, about 25,000 people die of starvation daily. This is, in fact, not worth it
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The NeoNazis are fighting
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Don't go towards the Weiss!!!
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Nobody likes the experience of being wrong, but our toxic culture of individualism has really reinforced that being criticized is an attack on you, the main character, and a lot of people never get over this....even those of us who should know better. :/
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[homerbart.jpg]
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Less? Of something? Have you considered that that would make Line Go Down? Why do you hate Progress(tm)(r)(c)(patent pending)?????
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I quit doomscrolling and just casually chat with whoever. Extracted myself from the process of getting into fights with morons on the tweets. It's a waste of your life
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OTOH, that would have prevented him from taking the video ad down (which he has) and from trashing their creepy product in the followup video. The important thing is listening to your critics, admitting you fucked up, and refusing to play ball with these scumbags
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Well, he clarifies in the apology/critique video - he turned down the money from the sponsorship so there's no profits. Just loss of his own time and any money put into the production of the bad video.
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It's pretty genuine! He spends something like 18 mins of the 23 minute video tearing into the World company and their stupid product
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I think this means you're famous now
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I disagree. I think all of those creatures are far more human than race "science" advocates
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What a weird guy. He should talk more about eating the rich on live tv