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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • I’m from the US, and I can tell you the biggest threat to the US are billionaires and their special interests.

    Someone of the billionaire class like Taylor Swift does more environmental damage in a year than the average US citizen does through their entire lifetime. It is completely valid to call her out on this.

    But please, continue to disingenuously call all those critical of Swift a right wing troll. Always easier than acknowledging the nuance of a topic.



  • *By simply hating a billionaire.

    Some of the criticism levied against Taylor Swift is definitely rooted in sexism, misogyny, and political bias: but not all of it.

    To lump everyone criticizing Taylor Swift into the same group as the misogynists and sexists is disingenuous. She deserves criticism and is not free of it just because she’s a woman.

    She’s also one of the most famous people in the world. So of course she’s going to get more flack from her visibility alone.

    Thus the following can be true: Taylor Swift isn’t the only one that deserves criticism from her private jet usage. And there are those that would criticize her in bad faith because of her political alignments/because she’s a woman. But even then the criticism she has received is still completely valid.

    No billionaire deserves or needs special treatment.










  • For full context, there was an event where several YouTubers/Online personalities met the pope. I couldn’t say the specific reason for doing so, but during their visit each of the groups presented a gift. In MatPats case he gave the Pope a copy of Undertale.

    Then a lot of people started to clown on MatPat for giving the Pope a copy of Undertale. He made a response defending his gift choice, and honestly it wasn’t that weird of a gift. It’s just funny to me personally because the situation is so low stakes but became a meme because of MatPat’s response.





  • That’s all very convenient rhetoric for you I’m sure, but you also fail to take into account that parties die off all the time. It wasn’t always Democrats vs Republicans, there is a rich history of political parties in America.

    I don’t see how wishing for the destruction of Democrats is any different then those who wished to see the destruction of the Whig party towards the end of its days. They see an inferior political party and wish to see is destroyed and born again anew.

    I don’t see what shutting down that conversation does short of keeping the status quo. The same status quo that the far right is abusing in the US to enact their racist/transphobic/homophobic/bigoted bullshit.