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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 179 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hating both is the only based take. All billionaires are evil, even if you really really like their music.

You're fuckin dreaming if you think this silly airplane meme is equivalent to the hate we send Musk's way all the time, constantly

[-] Chriswild@lemmy.world 75 points 7 months ago

I didn't see many memes about Swift's plane usage till she threatened the kid tracking her flights. If that's not just me, then she deserves it for making a stink about publicly available information.

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[-] fleet@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think hating equally based on a single metric is never a based take. If being a billionaire makes you evil then surely having 205.2B makes you a whole lot worse (185 times worse) than having 1.1B.

Also you can like things people do while disagreeing with their ways. Sounds like Swift donates a decent sum while being shitty for having a private jet.

Not trying to stick up for Swift, just trying to add nuance to the conversation.

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[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 107 points 7 months ago
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[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 101 points 7 months ago

I hate Elon because he is a capitalist crushing the working class, an alt-right con artist and takes credit for things he didn’t do.

I hate Taylor because she is a performative liberal who espouses progressive politics but doesn’t follow through making her a hypocrite.

I hate both because they are billionaires and neither should have been able to accumulate as much wealth as they have.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 42 points 7 months ago

The fact that Musk is shit doesn't make Swift not-shit. But it's like comparing her cup of shit with Musk's olympic swimming pool of shit on a warm summer day.

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[-] LSDpoem@lemmy.world 79 points 7 months ago

Can't I be upset with both of them for different reasons

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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 70 points 7 months ago

Oops

Public shaming worked, on to the next!

[-] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Those carbon credits won't do shit to save the planet, but at least flying less is a step in the right direction

[-] hannes3120@feddit.de 13 points 7 months ago

Interesting how it worked before the whole shitstorm with all the memes started.

I wonder if those were not really about her flying but somehow related to her speaking out against trump and that was just the angle of the smear campaign to make her less credible for left people...

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 67 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

as much as I hate billionaires, it is kinda sus how disproportionately online goobers seem to hate swift. Its even worse when you consider she's probably the only billionaire that works for a living

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 26 points 7 months ago

Yup. Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, and Steven Spielberg have private jets too. Many more lease them.

Sure let's talk about how it's not cool to use a private jet, but maybe let's not be hyper fixated on a woman that owns a private jet. Kinda makes it very suspicious that people actually just have an issue with a woman being successful.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

None of them sent a cease and desist to a 19 year old kid, because he was broadcasting publicly available data about their private jets. Taylor and Elon did.

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 19 points 7 months ago

Just in the last week or so Swift sent a cease and desist to the kid tracking her and other celebrities jets, aka already publicly available information. Just like when Elon tried to stop him, by trying to stop him she has Streisand effected the situation.

If and when Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, or Steven Spielberg send their own cease and desist, then we can start making jet memes about them, too. Until then, they've got other shitty things we can bring up. Cruise is a cultist, Jim Carrey is/was an anti-vaxxer, and Spielberg... actually, I can't think of anything else for him, let the Spielberg jet memes commence I guess.

[-] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 7 months ago

Even billionaires can't escape sexism

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[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 66 points 7 months ago

She only sold her second jet on the 14th of this month.

And we can hate both, shit we hate Musk far far more than Swift but both are capitalist billionaire shitheaps.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 7 months ago

I’m not even a Swift fan, and yeah I get that she is ultimately still a billionaire. But she played on Friday in my home city of Melbourne, and that day she donated $100k to a local food bank system. I know that’s still a drop in the bucket for her, but that’s not chump change.

However, if you do some searching, there’s a stream of news stories of her donating large amount like that or more. The day before her first Melbourne concert, she donated $100k to the family of the woman killed at the super bowl parade. Two months ago she donated $1 million to a relief fund for tennessee tornado victims. Heaps more food bank donations.

Like, can we seriously just leave her the fuck alone? Musk is an alt-right piece of shit, she’s just a talented musician that actually works for a living. And yeah, I know she doesn’t work as much as some of the rest of us, but stadium touring is still brutal. Musk just sits on his arse all day tweeting and committing labour violations.

She’s also not the child of an emerald mine owner so there’s that too.

[-] Axiochus@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

100k to a billionaire is no more than a tip. Billionaires are a symptom of an unjust system of wealth distribution, regardless of the person. Musk also happens to be a racist numbfuck, but they're a dime a dozen. The problem is that he's part of a digital feudalism and wields enormous power.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 7 months ago

100k to a billionaire is no more than a tip.

Yeah, like I already said in my comment, it’s a drop in the bucket for her. But she’s doing it over and over again. Twice this week she donated $100k. It adds up over time. Dolly Parton is worth $650 million, and she also donates significant sums of that to her book charity. They’re both trying reasonably hard to make the world suck less. Musk is actively creating more suffering. Can we not talk about them like they’re the same level of evil? What good does that bring?

[-] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Many rich people are "donating" to avoid paying taxes and it another way for marketing. You are the proof of that, you are defending and promoting her.

Billionaires like her are the reason we have poverty and charity associations

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 7 months ago

You are 100% correct that many billionaires do that. As cogman mentioned above, having a “charity” that you run yourself as a billionaire is absolutely a common tax scam. That’s not what she’s doing though. She’s actually spending the money.

Also in terms of marketing, like, are you serious? Her music speaks for itself to her fans, they don’t care about any of this. My words here aren’t going to influence someone to go listen to her music or buy a concert ticket. To believe that they could is simply ludicrous.

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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Have you ever read Andrew Carnegie's book The Gospel of Wealth? Even if Taylor hasn't, someone close to her has. Carnegie and Rockefeller needed bodyguards to feel safe in public. All billionaires should feel the same. We forgot to call them what they are. Robber Barons.

[-] cogman@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's, frankly, more than most billionaires and 100 millionaires do.

Most billionaires are setting up fake charities as tax shelters so they can publicize "Elon musk gave money to the Elon musk charity for fueling billionaire private jets foundation".

You can pretty much pick a billionaire and find that billionaire's charity that does dog shit.

Except for Dolly Parton who apparently didn't get the memo that she's supposed to be scamming :D

https://fortune.com/2022/12/12/elon-musk-gave-5-7-billion-to-charity-last-year-where-it-went-was-a-mystery-until-now/

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[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 64 points 7 months ago

They both billionares. Feed them to the orphan crushing machine.

[-] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 55 points 7 months ago

All billionaires are bad.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Elon Musk is invulnerable to cricitism because he cares about nothing and listens to nothing.

Taylor Swift can have her mind changed, it has already happened in the past, and she cares about her image. Criticism of her has a chance to land.

Also, it has nothing to do with the teenage girls. We hate the jet. The jet isn't even in the top 10 of things we hate about Elon.

[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago

Both of 'em

[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 7 months ago

Fuck people who hate on Swift for misogynistic reasons, but also fuck swifties who brush valid criticism off as misogyny.

And to this blatant whataboutism I can just say: humans are able to criticize more than one person. Yes, fuck Elon Musk, he is worse in uncountable more ways than her, but this fact doesn’t protect Taylor from also being criticized.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Literally all of this started with people hating Elon Musk. It's only focused on her now because she is currently harassing the guy tracking her jet.

If you went back a year or so ago, when Elon was the focus of this instead of her, would you be complaining about how a man is getting more flak than a woman?

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago

I hate her for using Ticketmaster. We're not the same.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is the second "meme" I've seen trying to make the point that Taylor Swift should be immune to criticism because she's female in the span of two minutes.

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[-] Boingboing@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

You honestly think I don't have enough hate in my heart for 2 rich assholes flying around in private jets?

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 29 points 7 months ago

Porque lo nos dos?

On a more serious note, this is actually a perfect demonstration of why intersectionality is vital, and how classism and sexism intersect - this isn't, and shouldn't be reduced to "either/or", we can hate and fight against billionaires for being exploitative oppressive capitalists, and misogynists who only hate Swift for being a woman singing for other women..

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 29 points 7 months ago

its weird how this is implying that there are people who don't hate elon musk.

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 25 points 7 months ago

I think Taylor gets a lot of hate because many people want her to be a role model for young adults.

When she inevitably fails to live up to everyone's standards, this is what ensues.

It's hilarious to watch.

Also, nobody is holding musk up as a role model. At least, not for young adults.

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[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The internet being disproportionately angry at a woman rather than a man?

That can't be right.

[-] perspectiveshifting@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 months ago

‘Hateing’ this post for that horrific spelling

[-] Napain@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago

they only meme on her because she might prevent trump

[-] flamingos@ukfli.uk 18 points 7 months ago

The idea we don't hate on Musk is genuinely insane. His hate subreddit even got brought over (!enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world).

You could've chosen literally any other billionaire and you would've had a point.

[-] somegeek@programming.dev 16 points 7 months ago

Why not both?

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 15 points 7 months ago

If people don't notice how much more society hates women for doing the same things men get away with everyday, they simply haven't been paying attention.

If they're only just now having it pointed out to them, after participating in the latest hate campaign, they're motivated not to understand because they don't want to recognise their own behaviour as misogynistic.

Talking about how they "hate both" might be true for any one person, but that doesn't change the wider trend.

[-] ninpnin@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 months ago

of all the places, you posted this on the fediverse?

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

They are both bad people for different reasons. Taylor is just a corporation in human form. She regularly fucks people.

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