merthyr1831 ,

beyond the usual Fascism on display here, it should be mentioned how the UK has some utterly abysmal Holocaust education (not unlike most of the world nowadays).

the most the average millennial or younger will know about the Nazi regime comes almost exclusively from the boy in striped pyjamas, a book and movie famously criticised by most Holocaust historians for their misleading nature

Lmaydev ,

I'm mid 30s and we studied the Nazis and ww2 in quite a decent depth.

It was very Britain centered admittedly. But it did go into the holocaust in some depth.

jlow ,
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With TERFs/bigots in general obviously but somehow with her especially I always find it sad/infuriating that she has nothing better to do with her life (and money) as well as that lots of people still think it's cool to be around her (there's a HP series tv being made she's involved in I think?)

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Damn, dril really predicted this
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/0344c702-6666-46c0-ae24-d996c993a9bb.webp

squirrel OP Mod ,
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Unfortunately the Dril tweet is a fake, the original one was about Kanye West

Ross_audio ,

He did predict the future with it though.

sigmaklimgrindset ,
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Dang I fell for fake news. Just goes to show how many people the tweet can be applied to nowadays.

squirrel OP Mod ,
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TBH I believed it too at first, until some other people pointed it out to me. I am not even sure why anyone would even want to fake a Dril tweet though.

germanatlas ,
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Kinda made me think about this Philosophy Tube video

squirrel OP Mod ,
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Oh yeah, that's a doozy (though which Philosophy Tube video isn't?).

casmael ,

Wow it’s hard to believe but somewhere at the bottom of that Very Deep Hole™️ is author and former media darling JK Rowling. Strange I know, but she’s still digging down there. Gets the spoil taken away twice a month. Hasn’t been seen in years. Strange times.

merthyr1831 ,

She's still a media darling, but only if you're British where no one dares report on her spiral into fascism. You'd think she'd gone into hiding after amassing a bajillion british doubloons from harry potter merchandise sales

fsxylo ,

What living above consequences does to a mfer.

xantoxis ,

People truly guided by their conscience never get this rich, because it's offensive to be this rich without using that money and influence to help someone else.

Ross_audio ,

This is what's really sad.

She's gone from poor, to rich, to the first author to become a billionaire. To giving away so much money she dropped off the billionaire list.

To saying shit things on social media then doubling down over and over and becoming a hateful person.

Even during the writing of the Harry Potter books you can see her ego grow, the influence of editors diminish, and the writing get worse.

At some point she closed down and stopped listening to other people. So what she thinks just gets amplified as it bounces around her mind as she agrees with herself.

Lots of people her ages probably had similar opinions. But what condemns her is the fossilisation of her opinions. As society changes and more of the reality of who the people she condemns comes to light. Her opinions fall further out of step with those who aren't fossilised in ignorance.

princessnorah ,
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Eh I think that’s just letting her off because she’s a billionaire, when really she’s just a shit person. Taylor Swift donates a lot of her fortune, and in general seems to be a good person. She donated a casual $200k to my cities food bank when she visited recently, and apparently shes been doing that in every city on her tour. Her music has never been subtlety (or not so subtlety) racist either as far as I’m aware.

FakeGreekGirl ,
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Taylor Swift seems like a far better person than most billionaires, but the existence of billionaires itself is a moral failing, IMHO. I agree with xantoxis, if you're truly doing everything you can to help others, it's impossible to become a billionaire, because you'd never hoard that much resources when they can do so much good for so many others.

Look at someone like Dolly Parton, who would be a billionaire if she didn't give away so much money. She's doing it right.

Of course, Rowling, in addition to being a billionaire, is also a cruel, hateful creature, where Taylor is not AFAIK.

princessnorah ,
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I agree with you 110% but I genuinely think Taylor is trying really hard to be like Dolly. I looked it up after the donation here and she’s been doing a lot of donating her wealth the last few years. To the point where she’s worth just (I know it’s still an obscene amount) $1.1B whereas Dolly is worth about $650M. I think she’s just had more time than Taylor to donate her fortune. Taylor could have gotten a book from the Imagination Library when she was a kid.

Tolstoshev , (edited )

She’s displaying the behavior of an addict who has fallen off the wagon. Since she’s an addict, I’m guessing she’s back on the sauce.

Edit: from her Twitter, she now says she drinks “only on the weekends” so some classic downward spiral action. She and Elon should get together and enable each other’s drug use.

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