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Legislation just signed into law has made it exceedingly to difficult to track private jet activity.

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 7 months ago (4 children)

It’s about Swift and not one of the richest people in the world who lives in the kleptocracy that passed this legislation and historically has made a big fuss over this issue?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

He is also in the article, yes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

As with the ticketmaster story, if you put Taylor Swift's picture on the headline it gets more clicks.

It's just that simple.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I blind clicked hoping that wasn't the answer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not that you are wrong, but I think we should keep using Taylor Swift as the face of this because:

  1. She is the worst offender in this case, even if not the only.
  2. She is on the "left" (what passes for left in the us, a leftist billionare is obviously a contradiction). So this is a clear signal from us that this is not about us vs them. This is an issue even when done by someone on our "side" (like Taylor Swift is in our side lol, but for MAGAs and similar extremists she is).
  3. At the end of the day, any meassure stoping Taylor Swift from contaminating with her stupid jet will also help us stop all the other assholes.
  4. We don't owe shit to Taylor Swift or any other celebrity, fuck her. We can talk after she stops being a deca millionare, in the mean time fuck her lol.

So get mad at her, use her bad image in this issue to push for change, and seriously, fuck her almost as hard as any other rich assholes. The fact that she is sligthly better than people pushing for a return to feudalism doesn't make her a good person lol.