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Henchman of Santa posted:She originated in country music where it seems more like it would be an issue. yes p sure her dad was an investment banker and bought a recording studio so she could record her poo poo it all makes sense when you listen to her lyrics
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Way more celebrities than I expect are the children of either the rich, or of people already deep in music/film/whatever. Like there's so many actors who are the kids of either Hollywood producer/exec types, slightly-less-famous actors, or are just rich brits who studied acting at Oxbridge instead of whatever normal rich awful tories study.
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It's almost like being rich gives you a leg up in every possible way.
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Henchman of Santa posted:It's almost like being rich gives you a leg up in every possible way. uhhhhhhh source???
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So much of success in our world is based on connections and who you know. The rich stay rich because rich people all give each other’s kids jobs.
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May 28, 2020 17:58
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No one is self-made in this world, save for Tommy Wiseau.
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  These people have actual influence (through astroturfing) on public discourse. 
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The music industry is big with that poo poo Everyone wants to think every group formed in like their friends garage but that is rare
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TinTower posted:
Reminds of this chestnut from the embryonic internet: code:
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christmas boots posted:No one is self-made in this world, save for Tommy Wiseau. 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Way more celebrities than I expect are the children of either the rich, or of people already deep in music/film/whatever. Billie Eilish comes to mind, there was a bunch of stuff trying to promote her as some teenager who managed to hit it big. Her parents both work in the entertainment industry so she had waaaaay more connections than the average teenager.
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The best is when they say "I worked hard" like that's all there is to it. No one is saying you didn't work your rear end off you ding-dong, but the expression "born on third, thinks he hit a triple" applies.
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mind the walrus posted:The best is when they say "I worked hard" like that's all there is to it.
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PetraCore posted:The savvier ones know it, imo. But then it becomes a question of, what then? I think if you landed success like that you've got an obligation to promote and sponsor artists who didn't have the same starting point. That's a bit of a catch-22 isn't it? As a successful entertainer, any artists you know to promote necessarily has connections in the industry (ie you).
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christmas boots posted:No one is self-made in this world, save for Tommy Wiseau. Pretty sure he was sired by Vlad Dracul
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Anime avatar https://twitter.com/kawashima_ami_/status/1209131173529739267?s=20
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OwlFancier posted:If you specifically want conspiracy theories about the beatles then paul mcartney has been dead for decades. Oh, duh! This whole thing totally slipped my mind. I was sort of aware of the broad strokes of the conspiracy theory, but I guess I never realized how large of a following the whole 'Paul is Dead' thing actually got. Now I want to go down an Internet rabbit-hole and see if there's any diehard proponents of this theory still floating around on social media, fansites, etc. I love how the supposed story is so specific ("He FOUGHT with the rest of the band, then peeled out and crashed his car and got DECAPITATED!"), dramatic, and something that would cause a big scene (such as police response, etc) instead of...you know, an alleged overdose or something more "mundane" that the band might want to cover up.
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  It’s extremely suspicious that the police would murder this black man... we just need to connect the dots.
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PetraCore posted:The savvier ones know it, imo. But then it becomes a question of, what then? I think if you landed success like that you've got an obligation to promote and sponsor artists who didn't have the same starting point.
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That video still haunts me after all this time but I’m glad anime avatar dude find racist use for it.
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I remember the exact same white people who defend police brutality against PoCs defending that bit of police brutality Weirdly all these fuckers forgot blue lives matter for the past few months, and now suddenly blue lives matter again
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Dr Christmas posted:We probably loving should have! Pretty much. That thing was so loving hosed. He essentially put the guy through a catch-22; so as your told, and you’re dead, don’t, and you’re dead. It was extremely hosed and the fact that it’s barely a blip on the radar of police malpractice in America is a loving atrocity.
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BigglesSWE posted:That video still haunts me after all this time but I’m glad anime avatar dude find racist use for it. What video is this? Feel free to point me to any news articles if you don't feel like going into detail, I'm just not recognizing what event this image is from.
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Read After Burning posted:What video is this? Feel free to point me to any news articles if you don't feel like going into detail, I'm just not recognizing what event this image is from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver cop shot a guy for failing a high stakes game of simon says quote:Police Sergeant Charles Langley then ordered Shaver, who was lying prone, to cross his legs. Moments later, he ordered Shaver to push himself "up to a kneeling position." While complying with the order to kneel, Shaver uncrossed his legs and Langley shouted that Shaver needed to keep his legs crossed. Startled, Shaver then put his hands behind his back and was again warned by Langley to keep his hands in the air. Langley yelled at Shaver that if he deviated from police instructions again, they would shoot him. Sergeant Langley told Shaver not to put his hands down for any reason. Shaver said, "Please don't shoot me". Upon being instructed to crawl, Shaver put his hands down and crawled on all fours. While crawling towards the officers, Shaver paused and moved his right hand towards his waistband. Officer Philip Brailsford, who later testified he believed that Shaver was reaching for a weapon, then opened fire with his AR-15 rifle, striking Shaver five times and killing him almost instantly. Shaver was unarmed, and may have been attempting to prevent his shorts from slipping down. An autopsy report found that Shaver was intoxicated, with a blood-alcohol level over three times the legal driving limit, which police stated may have contributed to his confused response to their commands.
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Read After Burning posted:What video is this? Feel free to point me to any news articles if you don't feel like going into detail, I'm just not recognizing what event this image is from. Guy got executed in a hotel hallway by police giving him contradictory commands. Killer had "YOU'RE hosed" printed on his rifle. /e: oh right it had the moron label too FFT has a new favorite as of 20:36 on May 28, 2020 |
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I'm literally wearing loose-fitting basketball shorts right now and I want to see what sort of weapon this tactical genius, feared-for-his-life cop thinks I could successfully conceal without immediately dropping my shorts
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They have whole schools dedicated to telling cops how they're basically judge dredd. Whatever the cop thinks must be reasonable.
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BigglesSWE posted:Good to know that drinking in your hotel room is now a justification for your murder by police. See he was drunk, meaning he COULD have gotten into a car and killed someone! He had a scoped pellet gun for dealing with birds in grocery stores and showed it to his guests. He was seen from the ground with it which prompted the call to the police.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm literally wearing loose-fitting basketball shorts right now and I want to see what sort of weapon this tactical genius, feared-for-his-life cop thinks I could successfully conceal without immediately dropping my shorts You could have a whole snub-nose revolver in there. That's obviously a major threat to the guys wearing mil-surp flak jackets and helmets.
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Cernunnos posted:You could have a whole snub-nose revolver in there. It’s not even a matter of size, if I had a loaded gun in the pockets of my basketball shorts they’d be around my ankles. The waistband just isn’t made to support more than the weight of like a wallet and keys. I can’t even keep my phone in my gym shorts.
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FFT posted:He had a scoped pellet gun for dealing with birds in grocery stores and showed it to his guests. He was seen from the ground with it which prompted the call to the police. A guy I know once got a rather energetic visit from a SWAT team one evening when he and some friends were repairing a paintball gun and test-fired it in the driveway a few times, which was misinterpreted by the old lady across the street. Fortunately, the incident ended without anyone getting murdered by the boys in blue. (The fact that all of them were white was, I'm sure, a total coincidence.)
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Internet Wizard posted:Pretty sure he was sired by Vlad Dracul He is 100% a vampire
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Turpitude II posted:out of curiosity: how come? Honestly, as a queer woman, it was just nice to think that two famous, mainstream popular reasonably-okay women were possibly in a relationship with each other. The thing to understand is that Taylor and Karlie very much were best best friends to the point where they'd have a bunch of stuff going on together that is genuinely what lesbians have traditionally done to hide being in an actual relationship (living in two apartments next to each other, spending months without seeing anyone else, so forth and so on), so it was really actually up in the air about the exact meaning of what was going on. Add on Taylor's rocky road with boyfriends and it was a reasonable thing to question internally as queer people do (this kind of speculation goes on all the time). The issue with the absurd fanatic fangirls is the poo poo about calling their boyfriends/husbands prisoners of war, which I never got into. Like, who knows? Maybe they had a thing, broke it off, and went somewhere else. Maybe they are just really close friends platonically. It's not loving queerbaiting, because these are real people living their real lives, not scripted poo poo; and even if it's fun to hope for and fantasize about, your ideas don't mean those real people don't get to make their own decisions and have their own ideas. And again, Karlie turned out to be a privileged white bitch in the end anyway, so gently caress that.
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For what it's worth, the Daniel Schaver video is googleable still and it isn't gorey. He goes from crawling on all fours, begging for his life, to dead, really quickly. You can't even see his blood from the bodycam. I don't recommend watching it but if you wanna see how arbitrary US cops are, it's there and it's a really good example. It's easier to see than the George Floyd video if that helps
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