Thank you for at least mentioning the dead horse.
The dead horse that was delivered to us in a private jet.
Lemmy users delivering Taylor Swift memes to c/lemmyshitpost:
I’m out of the loop. Is Taylor Swift a jet now? I tried to google Taylor Swift as a jet and ended up on reddit.com/r/aeromorph . . .
“This better not awaken anything inside me …” - Dean Pelton
Apparently, Taylor Swift has no major blemishes on her record, except that she has lended out her private jet to family members and other close relations for significant and seemingly trivial trips.
So people are focusing on that.
She could do something unconscionable soon, statistically, but nothing has happened yet.
Didn’t she just sick her legal team on the random kid who was tracking her public flight record habits? I was under the impression it stemmed from that (highlighting her frivolous plane usage).
Yeah, and this sucks to say, but this is a case of different circles. When you’re that rich, you tell people hey, why is this guy…, and then your legal team sends a cease and desist letter.
It isn’t suing him, it’s telling(telling) him to stop it please, legally.
She’s so rich that it’s very scary, but it’s basically like a neighbor knocking on your door, with the very important caveat that if her steel toed stuffed animal boot decides to kick your door in, you have no legal recourse, since you can’t mount a proportionally paid legal defense.
In more free countries that are more supportive of every citizen, this wouldn’t be a big deal. In the United States, since money has been legally transmogrified to free speech, it’s more of an issue.
The USA: where money has been legally transmogrified to free speech.
You definitely have a way with words!
Appreciate it. Most of my literary and scholarly documentation can be found completely disassociated from and highly derivative of Watterson and similar works.
Someone wrote about this recently but i can’t find it. May have been a NYT article.
“When only the ultra wealthy can afford to speak freely
what does free speech mean?”I wpuld assume that goes back to greece or earlier. Bummer how we haven’t found an interim solution.
It means that only “people” get to speak freely.
Caveat: if you ain’t rich, then you ain’t people. (literary callback to a phrase that Biden said during his last campaign)
Oh, and “speech” = $$$ btw (Citizens United).
Translation: facts be damned, rich people gonna do whatever they want, and the laws will even codify that, despite how that means the literal and precise opposite of what America was first founded upon.
It’s the kind of thing that makes me think that when either side of a legal case spends money on lawyers, they should have to donate an equal amount to the other side.
But that would the require people with power to care about justice.
It’s also a grey area because she’s such a big public figure that, while the kid is completely within their rights to do this, it presents a pretty big security/privacy concern for Taylor Swift and her family.
I saw somebody mention recently about this whole thing that celebrities like her use transportation like private jets specifically because of security concerns compared to driving and other, more public forms of transportation. The general public and the scummy paparazzi aren’t all that different sometimes, and the general public is more likely to have some nutjob with an agenda about the Super Bowl or something.
Publicly available data should be accessible to all people, period. Regardless of the personal preferences of any useless billionaire.
I agree, and I’m not saying otherwise. What I’m saying is that I understand where the C&D letter is coming from because broadcasting said publicly available data poses a security risk. It’s like when famous people are holding a panel at a convention or something. I remember Markiplier and his friends talking about how when they’d go to a convention, security wouldn’t let them walk around the floor because it posed a security risk to them, and to other people due to the crowds they’d draw. It’s not about some billionaire’s hurt feelings; it’s about the crowds of people that might swarm an area if they think they’ll see Taylor Swift there or the dude with a brain smaller than the hemis in his lifted pickup who might see it on Twitter and decide that he’s had enough of her woke football agenda.
I’m not supporting the cease and desist, but I get that the kid was adding additional risks that her security detail does not want to deal with. Not that the kid was doing it with malicious intent anyways, because you can get in actual trouble for that rather than just being sent the legal equivalent of “please stop doing that.”
I’m sure everybody remembers the story that the Republicans used to rant about of the cake shop that got in trouble for refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. But what they conviently leave out is that the shop actually got in trouble for what they did afterward: giving the couple’s info to a Christian hate group who threatened them so badly that they had to leave the state for their own safety. All because they were getting married so that they could adopt the kids of a friend who had died to keep them from going into foster care. The couple’s info was publicly available, but the shop got in trouble because they gave it out with the intent of causing them harm. That’s the kind of thing the security detail is thinking about when they do stuff like this.
This one doesn’t even have a picture of her crudely pasted in the corner. We can go lower.
Copy-paste a heel somewhere.
This is barely a meme, most will be satisfied.
It’s a good look, plane and simple
Ha. Ha. Ha…
I’ve been seeing these memes for days. I’m completely out of the loop on why Taylor Swift and planes are a meme right now, and quite frankly at this point I don’t want anyone to explain it to me. ☕
Okay, so let me explain, Taylor is actually a plane, always has been.
I appreciate how quickly this has mutated from a jab about how frequently she flies on her private jet to “Taylor Swift is jet, like if true”
The only explanation anyone should accept. Thank you.
Fox news pulled out the old “rich liberal having a private jet makes them a hypocrite because emissions” nugget they’ve been falling back on since the 2000 election (if not longer, that was the year i started following politics) and now it’s getting astroturfed everywhere like it’s a brand spanking new meme and not the same old conservative media tripe. more meaningless culture war shit, basically.
On top of Fox News pulling the “hypocrite liberal” stuff, there are also leftists like myself that simply don’t like anyone with a private jet
while i also feel private jets are bad in general this is a conservative-media-led dogpile meant to smear her as punishment for telling her fans to vote or somesuch. there’s more productive things to do with that drive and energy than parrot literally decades-old Fox News smears. why are we playing their game?
The Kremlin is pissed that Swift is kind of taking a stand against their candidate for US president. They don’t like it and want to make an example of her to discourage other influential people from standing up for democracy. So, they’re trying to run a smear campaign in social media and apparently this is the best they can come up with.
This plane meme once again proves that Tankies and MAGAs are actually more the same than they are different, they just can’t admit it.
Tankies are just fascists in red coats, maga are fascists in red caps
Are we this desperate to avoid going back to the beans?
Preemptively I will say: por que no los dos? :-P
As a old person, it fits my world view of how different ages approach humor
