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This level of celebrity worship is so bizarre.

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[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 89 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, the Federation of Planets : "Do NOT approach Earth, there's nothing we can do for them."

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You kidding me? They have scopes on us 24/7, we are their equivalent of the Twilight Zone, whole galaxy watches and laughs at our stupidity.

[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 4 points 2 months ago

The galactic equivalent of 'Ow, my balls'.

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That would make UFOs their equivalent to our Scientology Speedrunning challenge?

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People worshiping the rich and famous are responsible for a lot of the problems in the world today.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More or less than the rich and famous themselves?

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Both in different ways, the masses give them a pass for bad behavior, and also vote for the populists.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If it incentivizes people to clean up, I don't hate it as much as I did at first glance. Just won't think too hard about the shipping and other additional waste production involved.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

Yeah fair play. Mad respect to the domestic and waste workers making the place looks half decent for everyone... but I can't really hate on a guy for tidying shit into bags and selling them to people with more money than sense.

If it makes that corner of the world look a bit nicer for humans and animals alike... I can't hate on it.

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

lmao one person's trash 😂

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 months ago

I guess it would be pretty easy to say that Swift fans have been paying for garbage for years but to each their own :P

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Come on people we jumped the shark on this with gamer girl bathwater a while ago

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

The real lesson is it was never about the gamers. Weirdos from every walk of life will buy this shit up.

[–] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Jesus, people are so desperate for celebrity validation they're actually buying their goddamn rubbish now? What next, someone's gonna auction off Bieber's used condoms?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

That would literally go for a million dollars :/

[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That might be more defensible?

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[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's too bad she's a billionaire POS. If there's one person that could trigger the revolution, it might be her. She just has to say the word. These people would follow.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She couldn't get Harris elected, I don't think she has the draw you think she does.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She didn't push hard enough. Her support was "y'all should go out and vote." That statement only indirectly helped Harris because her fans are probably more left leaning.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe she doesn't really care and is actually benefiting from Trump. Maybe she only put in the bare minimum of effort for appearances as a PR move and didn't really want Harris to win. Maybe I would be willing to have given her the benefit of the doubt if we didn't have to shame her into reducing her private jet usage.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the word? Maybe we can trick her into saying it.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

You wouldn't want a revolution lead by idiots.

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

A market for any old celebrity garbage, who could have imagined.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I never really cared enough to look beyond the marketing for Taylor Swift, so my opinion was pretty much "Whatever, she seems nice enough", but having a wedding in MSG at all is seriously off-putting.

That's not an invitation to list everything bad about her. I still don't care.

[–] spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] deacon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is nuts. You see the same memes you saw in high school even though highschool was two decades ago.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How old was Taylor Swift 20 years ago and why did she get married this early?

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

You know for a private investigator, you're not very good at investigating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift

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[–] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Just imagine even telling anyone you knew you bought literal garbage. The shame

[–] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Ruling class be like:

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, $25 feels kinda low. Each bag could contain stuff that is worth much more, even minus the celebrity bonus.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd agree, but the bags weren't what was sold - it was a plastic cube with something like a cubic inch of trash inside. There's a pic elsewhere in the thread.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There’s a pic elsewhere in the thread.

I saw it. $25 for that? Un-fucking-believable. Like selling off the Berlin wall bit by bit, except that really was a piece of history.

[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Man I hate to have to agree with this because it's just so loathsome, but weddings always have like personalized tchotchkes on the table and shit and if you manage to snag one of those in your $25 bag you'd probably get a thousand dollars for it on ebay.

But "from the edge of a love story" is odd wording. I really would think such bigtime celebrities would see to it that their trash was removed themselves for exactly this reason and that this isn't just random garbage from nearby dumpsters.

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Is this like baseball cards, and one of the cubes is like an autographed T&T Wedding Night condom or whatever?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

This level of celebrity worship is so bizarre.

Is it celebrity worship or celebrity speculation? Like, who are the buyers? Actual dead-end fans? Or people who think they can flip the trash down the line?

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

People, or person?

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