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    Meh. He’s got money and can move to Texas or maybe Cancun. I hear the weather and electrical grid in Texas is fine this time of year.

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    it’s weird how an outright genocide, surprisingly recognized as such by nearly the entire world as it is happening, would cause people to voluntarily reveal themselves to be just cartoonishly evil.

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    James Woods basically having Disney turn Hades into his personal self-insert character actually makes the parts of Kingdom Hearts where you beat the shit out of him that much more rewarding

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    I heard about the wildfires yesterday, and thought: “ain’t it the rich people who have homes in that area?”

    :)

    :( to all the people who aren’t rich I’m sorry

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      There is like 6 fires, but one is a :) fire and the other five are probably :( fires.

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        All of the fires are :(

        While the palisades fire is showing a lot of very rich folks that their money doesn’t make them immune to fire, there are a lot of relatively regular people who were barely hanging on to their homes in a very expensive area who lost everything and could be financially ruined forever.

        Don’t get me wrong, vanishinlgy few of those in the palisades were poor before the fire. But a lot could be now if they were uninsured or if their insurance fucks them over.

        There’s a bunch of apartment buildings in the area that burned down too. Families who were protected by rent control lost their apartment and now where do they go?

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      Lots of actors whose work you appreciated lost their homes. I’m not defending rich people, but many of these folks actually earned it, not all inherited or squatted on wealth. Anthony Hopkins, Cary Elwes, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Billy Crystal among others lost homes. I’m sure a lot of amazing Hollywood memorabilia went up in flames too.

      E: Why the negativity? Just generic hating on rich people with no nuance? I draw the line at when people use their wealth, personally or politically, to put downward pressure on people’s wages, benefits, and quality of life, doubly so if they personally benefit from it like getting a bonus for layoffs. I don’t hate on someone winning at life as long as they aren’t keeping others down to win more. If you want to hate on wealth save it for the execs trying to use AI to put these people out of a job. People like Goodman walked the line to support their unions. Show a little flexibility before you throw more torches on the fire.

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        Unless all of their net worth burned up in the fire it might be difficult for some people to feel bad for them when they’ll just buy another house from their luxury hotel room, or more likely, second or third home.

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        They all have enough to recover with ease, aside from a few lost artworks and memorabilia.

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          Except the things that cant be replaced with money.

          Your kids first shoes, wedding photos, family heirlooms, the funny thing about rich people is that they are still people.

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              Cary elwes is rich enough to you that you doubt his personhood? I have to assume his net worth is seven digits(according to those celebrity net worth sites, $6-8 million. Idk if those are at all accurate, but it feels reasonable for his career). Doctors, lawyers, dentists, accountants, plumbers, contractors, septic tank servicers, and a fuckload of other people are in that range.

              That’s a lot of people you’re not sure are people. I get that it was probably not earnest and I’m ruining the joke, but that’s too broad a dehumanization brush for me to find it funny.

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                6-8 Million isn’t considered rich, I’m talking about the Elon Musk “Vacations on the moon” billionaires.

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                  This is in a thread talking about how Cary elwes (and others ranging from $45M-$160M, but all of them are skilled actors who work a lot) lost their homes, so you might want to specify that.

                  I don’t know if that’s even true though, we can see Elon Musk’s super immature but definitely human emotions on display. He freaked out about his trans daughter and went on an anti-woke crusade, which is depressingly common. There are definitely some ways in which he does NOT think like the rest of us and I think he’s totally lacking morals, but sometimes people are evil.

                  Edit: that said, musk doesn’t need my defense. Maybe he’s got some humanity left, maybe not. Either way, he’s an active danger to the rest of us as it is. Perhaps he wouldn’t be after aggressive (99.99%, he’d still a multimillionaire) taxes or after going to jail for corruption. Hopefully we’ll see.

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                  So you arent talking about the specific rich people who did lose houses and their irreplaceable personal posessions in these fires? Your talking about Elon Musk who is completely unrelated to the topic and has lost nothing in the fires for some reason?

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    That’s unfortunate, I liked Oppenheimer. Always sucks to find out someone involved was a total dickweasel.

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      There’s just so many people that work on movies and finance them that there has got to be a 100℅ chance that every great movie has a dickweasle wedged in the process somewhere.

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        I’d wager that both Clerks and Kentucky Fried Movie might have avoided dickweasles. That being said, to quote Kevin Smith about Clerks, both of them “are barely movies.”

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        You gotta separate the art from the artist. When one of my favorite bands got canceled because the lead singer was into the young ladies, I tried to remember there were four other dudes in the band, as well as presumably a lot of behind the scenes folks who assisted with touring and studio production. Same with movies. You can denounce people for being shitty, but at the same time recognize they were a part of something great.

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          I don’t know about “gotta” but often, I agree. Picasso was a piece of shit and a great artist. I think it’s actually counter productive to take the binary good/bad route in cases like his. The guy is famous already, if we were to try and reverse that, we not only remove art from the world in a sense, but we also decrease society’s overall ability to discuss the light and dark side of things.

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                Every art historian and critic and fan

                Lol! You mean those people whose entire living depends on pretending the (so-called) “art world” isn’t 90% hype and 10% “Great Man” fallacy?

                I can throw a brick on deviantart.com and hit someone that’s more talented than Picasso was (well, you could before it got swamped with fake AI), but none of them gets hyped up by a scam industry selling feelgood to rich people, do they?

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                  Your ignorance (and contrarianism) shows.

                  If someone can take a look at Picasso’s works and say they suck, their opinion is to be ignored. So thanks for that ❤️

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          Lol what does “young ladies” mean here? Like teenage adults or like girl kids. If you’re talking about a child abuser, describing him as a man who is “into the young ladies” is super dishonest and makes my skin crawl. If this musician is a child abuser, don’t sugar coat your language.

          Gross!

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            To me a child is single digits. You’re right though, 15 year olds, whatever term encapsulates that age.

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              Ephebophilia can be used as a distinction from pedophilia. Voicing that distinction makes you sound like a pedophile though.

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                I don’t think it’s pointless to say there are degrees of wrong.

                I know someone who cheated on their spouse with a willing 16 year old, which is legal here. This situation spawned arguments about morality that went on for years. Here’s a question to help those black & white thinkers break out of their shell a bit: which was worse? The 16 year old or the cheating? Does it change anything if the marriage had become sexless (spouse’s fault)? What if the 16 year old was or was not a virgin?

                Degrees of wrong.

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                I think it’s definitely wrong across the board. I honestly think 40 year olds dating 20 year olds is weird and I’m going to think differently of that 40 year old, but the laws have drawn this arbitrary line at 18, and so here we are.

                It’s all fucked up, but sexually assaulting a literal child versus sexually assaulting via coercion a 15 year old feels like a distinction worth making. You can be Lost Prophets pedophile or Brand New pedophile, they are vastly different degrees of awful, despite both being awful.

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      Thanks for sharing this. The story gets worse. The judge dismiss the case then almost immediately issue another statement allowing it to get through.

      Then the person die and they wanted to know his name and details of his death. Not only that he was tweeting about his victory and saying the guy in hell.

      Then force his family to issue an apology !

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        Since becoming a father, I stopped using child as an insult. My child, still two, actually learns from his mistakes and feels bad when he does something wrong.

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          So, you had to wait until it impacted you to realize how unfair it was?

          Just giving you shit, but as a schoolmarm I can confirm that adults are much shittier than kids

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            That’s because adults are more imaginative. My cousin who’s a total dick now as an adult, was also a total dick as a kid. He just was easier to deal with because his dickness was less sophisticated.

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            I think the idea is that kids often get away with being poorly behaved. But yeah I guess today, many adults do too…

            I think teenagers are the worst humans. If you were ever bullied you know what I mean. No filter on the awful things they say and not just on the Internet.

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            Oh, they never talk about the white people they do end up burning. Just collateral damage.

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            I don’t know about the guy you’re responding to but I personally stopped expecting consistency from those kinds of people a long time ago. I’m 100% confident there is at least one white guy doing exactly what you described at this very moment.

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              I want to purge the (British) Saxons do I count? Mostly the oligarchs and aristocrats but im sure I can find some working class ones deserving of getting fed to the woodchiper.

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    First I’ve heard of him being a dick. Adding the name to the pile.

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      Really? Even Family Guy has been making fun of his for his racist rants for like 20 years at this point. He’s like famously one of the biggest dipshits in Hollywood

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        Family Guy talks a lot of smack about a lot of people I have literally never heard of, and would have to look up.

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        TBH I thought that was part of the joke about him replacing the dog who is racist because I guess some dogs just are.