Taylor Swift is all about feminism when it’s beneficial to her career and deflecting criticism (and Tina fey jokes). That is it. That’s why people zoom in on her. I’m half suspicious that Katy Perry’s good deeds and activism are done purely as a middle finger to Taylor Swift.

+ all the stars

She’s not being criticised for the march in isolation. If she’d done other things like others have then she’d be fine. But she’s done nothing, ever. Of the people with the biggest platforms in American pop culture (and hers is especially prominent in red states), she’s the one that has stayed completely silent…

Perhaps because Swift has been conspicuously silent and intentionally ambiguous about politics? She makes a great show of unity and sisterhood but the radio silence was loud. She’s concerned about losing her fan base, and is obvious about it.

I think the only way it will happen is if some disgruntled IRS worker decides to say “Fuck It” and just steals his returns and leaks them (hopefully not to Wikileaks but to someone like David Fahrenthold from the Washington Post , Pro Publica, or the NYT).

Fuck Trey. He should apologize to his long-time friend instead of trying to throw her under the bus. STOP DISRESPECTING BLACK WOMEN AND THEIR SAFETY/COMFORT.

“When they go low, we go high”

You can never post this too much! It’s good reading...

His accounting firm is probably completely unhackable because they do everything on paper, because when you enter their office it’s 1946 again.

Nazis committed genocide. Actual genocide.

YES!

Considering what a shady shitshow most of Trump’s personal business is, there are two options - a) his accounting firm probably is backwards to the point of being laughably hackable, or b) there’s certainly a weasel on staff there who would release them for the right amount of money.

I absolutely agree with you. This false equivalency that all violence is the same on a moral level will get us all killed.

Characterizing a man who calls for ethnic cleansing as someone who is just voicing their opinion is cowardly, and you should stop doing it.

Well it did a hell of a lot to set it back from “nearly conquering the planet” to “pockets of largely-loathed pariahs.”
You can’t eradicate anything really, but you demonstrably can set it way the fuck back. The fact that such hateful rhetoric feels safe to creep out again isn’t proof of failure, it’s proof of…

Why are you under the impression it’s one or the other? This one punch has not broken the levy. We are not at war with the alt-right, fighting in the streets. Do you think laughing at Spencer being punched instead of being all contrite and remorseful somehow means that all those other avenues of resistance have now…

My most fervent wish right now is to get Trump’s tax returns by accident, and let Jezebel leak them as payback. for Theil destroying my precious Gawker.

It seems like they’re working on it, but haven’t been able to get anything yet:

Perhaps our post-war tolerance of their ideals was a mistake, too.