Oh I agree. Her PR fucked up big time. I know nearly all celebrities have their publicists deal with People, even if they don’t like it, and this is a big reason why. If she had her publicist leak something to People a month ago that they were over, then there would be way less drama.  Sometimes there is a benefit to…

I agree for the most part, but I do think there are some legitimate security fears for celebrities (mostly women) at a certain level: Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, etc. The kind who have had insane incel type stalkers break or attempt to break in their homes multiple times despite their top notch security systems…

I surprisingly like the Miley song and the Taylor song is decent-ish.

I’m hardly a fan of Miley, but apparently neither were wearing their rings for the past few months which kind of indicates she probably was telling the truth of them being over even if they hadn’t officially announced it.....and yet his team went “infidelity” when those photos came out. So I can kind of see her being…

Yep. The fact that AIPAC is coming out against this decision...even though the trip is partially sponsored by Miftah (tbh, I’m kind of surprised the Miftah factor isn’t a gigantic controversy)...just goes to show how extremely stupid it is to ban Omar and Tlaib.

Yeah, hardly a fan of Swift but the level of vitriol some have about her is...weird. I feel like a lot of it is tied up in how -online- people are nowadays. It’s easy to get angry behind an anonymous keyboard, and I feel like celebrities kind of represent this shield that people sometimes project their anger about…

Yep. What gets me about Splinter is when you call them out on their magical negro or I have a Black friend racism when they talk about Black politicians or President Obama, most of the writers retort with “President Obama’s not some sacred cow, why won’t you recognize his faults.” They have a blind spot and fail to…

This.

I actually think it’s not uncommon for celebrities, be it actors or singers, to play into something a bit and then it gets out of their control...and the fandom and part of the media just takes it way too far. This is going to be a weird comparison, but Jennifer Lawrence is another example. She had some middle school…

I love Bey, but it’s probably been put out there by her publicist as a distraction because the Petite Noir thing is catching on. I’m still kind of shocked..from the get go I was like “that looks exactly like La Maison Noir from last year.” Really don’t get what her creative team was thinking at all...

I love Bey and believe she’s a good person, but I do kind of get why she can rub people the wrong way outside of the racists and misogynists.

Not so much Ayanna, tho.

Yeah it’s just...baffling that people continue to feel this way after the midterms. I think it’s partly overestimating twitter (which only 7% of the US is on) and partly the media. And I feel weird going “wtf is wrong with some of you” because my politics do align fairly far left...

Honestly, I find both Pelosi and AOC to be obnoxious and immature as fuck nowadays. Pelosi’s a moderate Bay Area liberal with a side of that sort of racism, and AOC’s Justice Dem staff say a lot of borderline condescending, why aren’t the Black folks being magical negroes and grateful towards us and if they hate us…

I honestly find this kind of take amazing. Did a single Justice Dem flip a district in the 2018 midterms? Nope. Did Lauren Underwood, Colin Allred, Sharice Davids, all POC in red districts, manage to flip red seats while being center-left? Yes. Do you honestly think the Justice Dems, who target CBC members at a…

This bi WOC quite frankly finds both Rich and Dale’s pieces to be insanely offensive. It’s ironic because they think they are better than the other basic white gay men, but come on...it’s trying so hard to not be basic and gritty that it ends up being basic anyways.

Sure, it sucks. But it’s a bit disingenuous to act like this must be a last minute thing meant to break the strike—these sort of things take months, even years, to plan and contracts are signed. I doubt she could pull the line even if she wanted to if she found out about the strike.

I suspect this was planned long before the strike—these sort of launches aren’t last minute.

We agree on this. I was trying to say, and perhaps worded it poorly, that the Sharices and Laurens of the world can occasionally get squashed by the machines, old and new, but when they avoid the machines they can win (like Sharice and Lauren) and flip districts.

Yeah, there’s something deeply ironic that Pelosi helped create this mess that’s now going after her. I do think a lot of it is people working for Pelosi and AOC that are feeding this fire tho and they need to get their own people in check (there’s a lot of “anonymous” sources).