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    Alright you’ve been on a roll lately Swifty, but imma call you out; transponders are public information.

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        Admittedly I don’t know much about her as a person, but how can someone who uses a private jet in 2024 be considered a decent person by any stretch?

        Having such a ludicrously unsustainable lifestyle in a climate emergency that will kill millions and displace hundreds of millions in just a few decades is a crime against humanity, change my mind.

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          The same way a pediatric heart surgeon who also drives a Land Rover can be considered a decent person. People shouldn’t be judged on a single data point.

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            A land rover isn’t nearly as polluting and doesn’t drive nearly as far. More importantly, the heart surgeon isn’t a role model in terms of lifestyle aspirations for literally hundreds of millions of followers.

            People shouldn’t be judged on a single data point.

            It’s not like we’re talking about stealing some sweets from children or something. Climate change just gets worse and worse and worse until we reach net zero co2 emissions. As long as it’s culturally accepted to cause massive amounts of completely unnecessary emissions, we don’t have the slightest chance of fixing this.

            The only way a decent person could be doing this is if they were completely uneducated about climate change and their impact as a role model.

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              Do you really think Taylor Swift not having a private plane is going to do anything about climate change when the real problem is major corporations?

              When 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions, why is Taylor Swift to be treated as a pariah because she has a private plane?

              Neither the doctor nor Taylor Swift would make the tiniest dent in climate change if they gave those things up and we need to stop blaming individuals when it isn’t individuals who are the problem unless those individuals are running one of those 100 companies. Which Taylor Swift is not.

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                There’s always a supplier and a consumer. The pollution of these 100 corporations is caused on behalf of their customers who fund them in exchange for fossil fuels, directly or indirectly. They are both responsible, it’s 2 sides of the same coin.

                Of course, much of this pollution isn’t really avoidable at this point. We can’t have 100% renewable power and electric cars tomorrow. Some really polluting industries will take decades to decarbonize, like steel and cement production. But this makes it even more urgent to adress the low hanging fruit asap, i.e. big sources of pollution that can easily be cut. Private jets are a prime example.

                You could say just a few private jet flights or chopping down one single forest won’t make a dent in global carbon emissions, but that doesn’t mean that thousands around the world can keep on doing it indefinitely without consequences for all of us. Especially if they are idols for millions of people, normalizing harm to society that we can’t afford.

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        LOL 15 downvotes at time of this comment for you daring to say that she was wrong.

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          I think they’re downvoting me for saying she’s a generally decent person considering some of the replies I’ve gotten.

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              Whatever. If people don’t like Taylor Swift it doesn’t bother me. To be honest, I’ve only ever heard one of her songs all the way through. She just has done plenty of good things. This is one of the few things I’ve heard about her that wasn’t her being a decent person.

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                I have also never knowingly heard her music. It’s not that I avoid her, I just have never listened to pop music in lieu of jazz, classical, or world. But she does seem to be an upstanding person for the most part.

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            Well, we got some overriding scenario blasting away all nuance.

            It’s hard to be sympathetic toward a fundamental privacy limitation associated with flying in a plane exclusively owned by you. So in this context, it’s easy to equate “Leave Taylor alone!” with "it’s sad how she can’t fly in her private jet without being tracked, there’s nothing she can do!’

            Now broadly speaking, I get that a lot of unreasonable piling on is coming with it, but the private jet is a symbol of excess and environmental harm and it’s inherently a risk to hop into that whole mess. Particularly when she could charter private flights to the same effect without the tracking (still excess and environmental harm, but at least obfuscated from public eye a bit).

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              I never said she should be left alone or that it’s sad that she can’t fly without being tracked.

              I don’t care if she can be tracked when she flies. I said she was in the wrong here. All I said was that she generally comes across as a decent person.

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                Yeah, unfortunately, it’s the internet so we don’t take kindly to nuance around here.

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    If you are for Musk being tracked, you should be fine with her being tracked the same way.

    I’m for anyone in a private jet being tracked.

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    Woman who made over a billion being a public figure upset she is now a public figure.

    Sorry, no privacy for private jets. I don’t care about the “danger.” She can fly commercial in business class or first class if she wants privacy.

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      Her Grammy speech was literally “I love doing this, thank you for giving me the opportunity to do what I love.”

      Bitch, if you don’t want people to track you then fly first class.

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    Didn’t the richest person in the world try to do this exact same thing? I’m still convinced it’s the reason he bought Twitter. Those flight logs are public information because they prevent mid air collisions, your not going to change that. No one is going to be putting military grade radar equipment on a Boeing 757 if they can’t even stop the doors from opening mid flight.

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      Those flight logs are public information because they prevent mid air collisions, your not going to change that.

      One way to prevent being personally identified is to not fly around in your own personal jet and use one of the many other available options that aren’t trackable this way.

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        Several points:

        • Lots of information is public, such as your address. That doesn’t mean somebody explicitly publishing your address for the purpose of harassing you isn’t committing an offence.

        • Some celebrities can’t fly on passenger planes for their own safety and even that of others or the proper functioning of infrastructure. Can you imagine Taylor Swift trying to fly on a public carrier? She would get mobbed at the very least. At worst she might be putting her health or even her life in danger. Especially now that the MAGA morons are attacking her.

        I find Taylor Swift bland as beige, I don’t get the appeal at all, and I think Musk is a rabid twatwaffle. I also don’t believe anyone should really get to be so wealthy. Still, there are good reasons why one might need to travel by private means without their movements being broadcast.

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              I mean, if I had the choice of meeting one of them, I’d 100% pick Hugh Jackman. By all accounts, the dude is a genuinely cool guy.

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                How about Keanu? I think he would be cool to meet as well. Would genuinely find it hard to choose between the two (Hugh and Keanu)

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              I honestly don’t know.

              I know Hugh Jackman has been in couple movies couple years ago, and he is also in one of the movies I liked.

              I thought Taylor Swift stopped singing after the Romeo Juliet song. I didn’t realize people still cares about her until last year.

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          Some celebrities can’t fly on passenger planes

          Note that isn’t the only option. They can charter private planes. Still not publicly trackable as it isn’t public knowledge that a given tail number equals that celebrity.

          Still, if it’s about environment, abstracting the flight to an odometer would suffice without stalkery implications. However I presume it’s not hard to get the tail number for a rando, and then they don’t need any help tracking her in particular, public flight tracking resources would do it. So while she might be able to fight a targeted tracker, probably the worst she has to fear would still be able to track her.

          If I were anywhere vaguely in those shoes, I’d always use chartered private planes, limo services, etc. I would not move about in easily recognized and tracked personally owned transportation. Of course I’m not and definitely wouldn’t want to be flying much at all, but if I were in a position where I needed to fly, but couldn’t reasonably risk sitting among random folks, then chartering a flight seems a logical strategy.

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      Musk is an idiot but that’s not why he bought Twitter, especially when he balked at the idea of paying $10k instead of his offered $5k to do the same thing.

      No, Musk bought twitter for a much, much more stupid reason.

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    But flight data is available - this guy just labels her N number and filters the data in a creepy way. I get that it’s probably causing her danger to have stalkers waiting at the destination for her - but those stalkers always had access to this flight data.

    Seems like a workaround for Taylor would be to not own a plane and charter a different one every time. (Or do something actually environmentally minded :/)

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      I guess a workaround for the guy posting the data (if he is forced to stop) would be to instead just post the distance traveled and CO2 emissions for every flight. That’s still shaming her for being an environmental asshole while avoiding issues with stalkers or whatever their defense is.

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      There’s a difference between the data being available and it being broadcasted, which is probably what her argument would attempt to stand on if it went to court

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          There is also a difference between paywalling info behind a company that only three letter agencies and targeting advertising firms will even know the name of most of the time, and broadcasting that information on social media.

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            Why should corporate entities get to stalk you more successfully or more permissively than anyone else?

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              They shouldn’t, but they also use a method that’s a lot more tedious and annoying for a rando to use than just being able to see it on Twitter, which is like, 99% of the definition of “more secure”

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      “We want the artist to perform near us, all of us,but we don’t want them to be on planes in a way that makes that possible.”

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        There are plenty of ways to get someplace that don’t involve owning your own personal jet.

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        I don’t care if she tours or not, but I know for a fact my favorite bands either rent a bus or fly commercial.

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        If it’s not safe for people to use publicly available information then it shouldn’t be publicly available. No one was worried about it when it was used to call Musk out. Or the 1000s of people dealing with stalkers that aren’t famous enough for anyone to give a fuck about. Either protect everyone or don’t. You can’t just single out the rich white girls.

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        The federal government will take publicly available information and if it is bundled up with enough other information it is still considered classified and you can still (if you hold any sort of clearance) be in trouble for sharing that classified bundle.

        Which is just to say there is legal precedent agreeing with your point, although AFAIK that responsibility only applies to folks who have already agreed to responsibly handle confidential information.

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        I agree, I think you’re being down voted by the people who cheered on the Elon musk tracking kid. Sure it might be legal but I think everyone can all agree they wouldn’t want this done to themselves.

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          99.999 percent of us here would never have this problem because we will never be close to owning a private jet, even if we wanted to for some reason. I also think most of us here agree that owning a private jet is selfish, and since its kind of a problem brought on by her own selfishness, it’s kind of hard to feel bad for her.

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    Her lawyers must be crazy to think they can get anything done that elon couldn’t. Taylor should be mad at her PR for not stopping her if she asked for this personally.

    As for private jets. People with wealth, use that wealth to find an alternative. God knows you haven’t found anything else to do with it.

    Edit: Also, please let it be zeppelin technology.

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      They could invest in whole new rail lines with their own private cars and fill the other cars with low cost seats. Tons of people on it and no way reasonable way of tracking them because so many people boarding it each time.

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        (Top: Taylor Swift’s private jet – or at least the same model, a Dassault Falcon 900. Bottom: JP Morgan’s private Pullman railcar.)

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      Dude dirigibles are STUPID EFFICIENT because they don’t have to fly. They just float so you only need some tiny little fans to move them in the direction you like. I really do wish they’d come back

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        Airships; When you want to be as fast as an ocean liner, as cheap as an airplane, and as subtle as a train.

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            It can’t be just that.

            (I despise the “something something” meme, but that’s another story.)

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              Well, that’s a big one. Hydrogen is a much more available element to pump up an airship, and with hydrogen effectively off the table, then helium which if used at scale would be a problem, and it’s already a bit of a problem as it is.

              Aside from that, it forever shaped public perception, so airships have an uphill battle.

              But it’s still a thing, the butt-looking Airlander wants to bring back the airship. Their ‘10’ model however has half the cargo payload of a 737. Their more hypothetical ‘50’ would compete with an A300 on Cargo, which is respectable. However the top speed is 85mph, so 6 times slower than a typical cargo aircraft. However it may be able to tout versatility closer to a tractor trailer, they do still need a landing area, but not so much a runway. Tractor trailers are often used for long haul despite not being able to go 85mph, and definitely not ‘as the crow flies’.

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      Ehh, she is still human. She is one of the most recognizable and sought after a celebrities we’ve seen in a very long time. It must be absolutely horrible to be 24/7 in the public eye. But you can’t fight it and she hasn’t learned that yet. Try not to blame her, just be glad we got a level of goodwill that you don’t find in most celebrities, and hope that it continues.

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          You don’t even need to fly commercial to avoid being tracked in this way. If you charter planes then the tracking strategy falls apart too.

          Owning your own plane means that anyone who cares gets to know your rough goings on. For example, we get to hear Harrison Ford get in trouble for accidentally landing on a taxiway in his plane (he was quite reasonable about it)

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        I feel you. Makes sense to me.

        I wonder why someone hasn’t started a Part 135 for celebrities that way they can’t be tracked per se. Rent out planes instead of being owned by any one celebrity.

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      Only half the country is inundated and riled up to see her as an Enemy of the State and an Enemy of the people. There must be many thousands now who want to see her raped, tortured and killed. She’s been vilified. And she’s not really a political figure unlike Musk who controls a significant part of the worlds communication medium and is politically active.

      Taylor Swift has enough money to protect herself, but imagine someone less wealthy would be similarly tracked and/or vilified.

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        someone less wealthy would be similarly tracked

        I’m sympathetic to the perspective, but actually no, someone less wealthy couldn’t be similarly tracked. To be tracked in this specific way, you must have exclusive ownership of plane(s) with tail numbers.

        If you fly commercial and don’t publish your itenirary publicly, then the public won’t know your association with the flight. If you charter a private flight, then again no one knows that chartered plane == you. You have to actually own a dedicated private plane for anyone to use these resources to confidently track you in particular.

        So I’m broadly sympathetic to the plight of celebrities with respect to paparazzi and stalkers and such. But with the availability of charter flights, hard for me to be too sympathetic of someone afflicted by private plane tracking.

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        Just a small clarification: the GOP does not have half of the country. Not even half of the voting population.

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    nope. sorry taylor. if your plane’s tracking information is public knowledge it’s allowed. if it’s good for elon it’s good for you too.

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    I’m thinking since the super bowl drama she’s probably getting more death threats than usual, and this is a reaction to that. It’s not going to work. You cant sue someone for publishing publicly available information.

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    If you travel in the same plane all the time, and you own that plane, people will be able to track you. Why not just get a good contract with a private jet company so you can fly anonymously? Even if she wins this case, she will still be trackable until she takes advantage of any of the options she has at her disposal.

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      The irony of “all billionaires bad” is that Taylor Swift earned that money through album sales and live touring. She wasn’t actively exploiting the labor of workers in order to be rich, she is just that popular.

      And before everyone jumps down my ass about my opinion sounding too conservative for Lemmy, I invite you to check out my post history.

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        The thousands of people making those records sell and shows happen:

        There is no self made billionaire, a billion is an absurd amount of wealth a singular person cannot actually earn or be worth.

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          People payed $2,000 a ticket to see Taylor perform… that was their decision.

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                i have no idea, but it’s not Taylor swift that’s selling those tickets for that much, it’s ticketmaster/stubhub and the like. she likely gets X amount from the venue to play there and the ticket sales all go to the venue. that’s the way it worked at the 4 day music festivals I’ve worked at. we paid the performers X amount, that had ZERO to do with how much we were charging for tickets. They got no portion of our sales.

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        What a sad state of affairs that you feel the need to “defend” yourself by claiming you’re not conservative. What the hell happened that we can’t have differing opinions without making blanket disclaimers?

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          At least here in the US, conservatism is associated with pretty much nothing good. Elimination of trans people (and then da gays after that), more guns, less healthcare, less education, less vaccines, less social responsibility, more taxes for the poor, less taxes for the rich, jailing people for getting abortions, furthering wars that we can feed our soldiers to for money, insurrection and fascism, fox news.

          Distancing yourself from that dumpster fire is prudent.

          Edit: The social responsibility thing was a dumb one. I was thinking of something else. Disregard that one point.

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            lumping everyone who believes part of those is not prudent either. I believe in thinking for one’s self. I believe in live and let live. You have ever right to be offended, but being offended means fuck all. I believe 2A is integral to our country and protects the rest of the constitution. I believe in more healthcare. our system is broken. but you can’t just flip a switch either. the system would collapse. I believe vaccines should be up to the individual, but the people making the vaccines shouldn’t make record profits off of them. They should also publish all their testing data and what EXACTLY is in them. We shouldn’t be forced to take anything. I don’t know what you mean about less social responsibility. I don’t know a single conservative that preaches more taxes for the poor. I think there needs to be a closing of tax loopholes so corporations pay their share, and the rich are not able to ‘hide’ money offshore. abortions should be legal up until the third trimester, except in cases of danger to the mother. If you simply can’t make up your mind in 6 months, then you likely have bigger issues. I think we shouldn’t hand out money in foreign aid and we should use that money to house, feed and educate our own population before we hand it out willy nilly all over the globe. if we are going to use the farce that our tax dollars are for defense, then let’s DEFEND our country, not bomb brown people and let any Juan, Mohammed, and Larry walk across our southern border in hordes and droves. Immigration is fine, but there’s a reason we have a limit. I think you should have to show a govt issued ID to vote IN PERSON and I think that ID should be free. I think there should be voting stations in every HS auditorium. Legalize 420, and let’s consider legalizing all drugs. Let the gays be gay, idgaf who you marry. While I think 90% of ‘trans’ people have a mental condition, who am I to tell them what to do with their body? I think it’s dumb af to cut off your tits or dick. But hey, it’s your body. But if you present as a man, but “identify” as a woman, how the fuck is anyone supposed to know? Put some effort into it Ze, Zam, Chaz, whatever. The world doesn’t revolve around you and your pronouns, get over it. I think pedophiles should be executed on public television. I think the people that brazenly do these “smash mob” style thefts should be put in stocks and publically humiliated. I think people like you misuse words like “fascist”, “Nazi”, “Insurrection”, and “Racist” not because you understand the meaning of them, but because they illicit a response that gives you the feeling of moral superiority.

            Ultimately I believe that MOST people fall somewhere in between the left and right and it’s just the screaming extremes that make each side look terrible to the other. It’s also that screaming extreme on either side that shames people into agreeing with them, exactly how you seem to be doing in your post. Calling a group of people a “dumpster fire” because they have an R or a D next to their name is extremely naive and childish and just as dangerous and you seem to think people that don’t think like you are.

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              In full recognition that I am similarly guilty, bullet points would make that digestible. Just a consideration.

              So lets both distill this down. I can kinda spot a few agreement points in there (taxes, don’t be a dick to LBGT folks) and a dissonance between the voter and the representative (see: the last time R’s got a big tax bill. More taxes for the poor, fewer taxes for the rich) which is similar for both parties (arguably more severe on one side, but I digress).

              2A, immigration, taxes. These are all legit political discussion points and would be so much better to discuss than whatever culture war nonsense is going on. That don’t actually get addressed by legislature (see: R’s, this week, throttling their own border bill to make Biden look bad. They explicitly described it as such, so clearly they don’t actually care, but when did we expect them to).

              There is no conspiracy to place Taylor Swift at the super bowl. Fauci did not do… whatever it was the crazies accused him of (D’s had a good number of crazies there to be fair). The border crisis is a nothing burger (not to say immigration reform isn’t a thing, just the hype). These are the talking points I hear from the R’s. How am I supposed to take them seriously. Especially when I, as a gay man, am expressly on the list of things they want to make illegal?

              I watched January 6th. On their streams, it was right there. I imagine it was a big day for Twitch and others like it. There was no question what was happening, and many people have explicitly gone to jail for insurrection. This is not debatable. It has been adjudicated in court. And Trump told them he loves them and that they should “stand by”. I watched it live. Some number of them were rubes that were tricked* but there were people setting up a damned gallows and shouting for Pence’s neck. Even if the rubes didn’t like it, mob mentality is a well studied and powerful thing. It was an insurrection. A relatively pitiful one, but that’s what it was.

              Trump has expressly stated he wants to be a dictator ‘just for a few days’ at the start of his term. Because that’s how that works… He wants to jail reporters and political opponents. There is no shortage of statements that are about as undemocratic as you can possibly be. Tell me how he isn’t a fascist?

              Even if you don’t like Trump, the R’s have fallen in line behind him. I’m not talking average people, plenty of people are conservative and don’t support all that nonsense. But the legislature isn’t the people. And it’s full of people that are challenging each other to duels on the floor of congress and shit (I think it was a state congress, but still). MTG and Boebert eat up air time with their crazy. Gym Jordan is a crazy fucker who was an accessory to sexual assault. The current speaker sends notifications to his son every time his masturbates. This list goes on.

              So yeah, in normal times, I’d agree that judging by R or D is a bad move and that generalizations are bad as a rule. Both sides are using their positions to enrich themselves so it’s not like there’s any high ground to go around. But damn me if I’m not voting for anyone that associates with the side that would rather my loving committed relationship to another man be illegal for… reasons?

              Side note: neopronouns are a non-issue. I’m an active member of my LGBT community in a major city and I’ve never met one. And using someone’s new pronouns (on the subject of trans folks) is just a matter of being polite and is not onerous, most only get pissed if you purposefully use their pronouns incorrectly. Worst I’ve had is being corrected when the wrong word slipped.

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          When you state something that is in line with the statements of terrible people it is prudent to denounce those people or otherwise say you are unaffiliated with their overall platform.

          Yes, people shouldn’t assume that you are saying more than you are, but it is still prudent to understand that people will make those assumptions. It shows self awareness.

          Normally, I would agree with you. But conservatives have been getting more fascist and have been making more calls for violence over the past decade. It’s a good idea to separate yourself from them if you don’t agree with those points.

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            But conservatives have been getting more fascist and have been making more calls for violence over the past decade

            how many riots were carried out by conservatives in the last 10 years?

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              The most well knows is the January 6th riot in DC. But I don’t think that’s the best metic for violence.

              How many rioters have actually killed people?

              Then how many conservative police officers have killed unarmed suspects? What about during liberal riots? How many women’s lives have been lost due to abortion bans because of conservatives? How many people have died because of lethal measures taken at the us/mexico border because of conservative policies? How many Palestinians have been killed by conservative Israeli Zionists? How many Ukrainians have been killed by conservative Russians? How many people have been killed by conservative Filipino police? How many Rohingya have died in Myanmar?

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                How many Palestinians have been killed by conservative Israeli Zionists? How many Ukrainians have been killed by conservative Russians? How many people have been killed by conservative Filipino police? How many Rohingya have died in Myanmar?

                No bearing at all in this conversation. We can do nothing about those in other countries. But good job deflecting the question.

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      If this one action makes her a bad person, then there are no good people, which then of course would mean there are no good billionaires.

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        “that one action” lol

        She is basically the worst case of private jet usage and leading the list of such individuals, while somehow advocating for the environment.

        This is just ridiculous.

        And she is trying to fuck that guy up for “stalking” and “harassment”, just for showing public data.

        On top, for whatever reason, she had 2 private jets flying around until now. Seems like she sold one this month.

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          I’m don’t want to defend her use of a private her, but it seems like a ridiculous puritan test if that this makes her a bad human.

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            Just such an incredibly weird statement to make that Taylor Swift of all people is the threshold for finding any good in the world, and if she’s not it then no one is.

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              This is not at all what I said. I said the metric used here to paint Taylor Swift as a bad person requires a level of pureness that would mean pretty much everyone is a bad person.

              I have no idea whether she is a good perspn, but I do know that “she flies in a private jet and her lawyers sued someone because they claim it is a threat to her safety… So she’s a bad person!” Is a terrible argument.

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    It’s public information. If you have a problem then stop flying around in your fancy fucking jet.

    God damn rich people. Fuck em all.