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Fans of Taylor Swift have been shocked after it emerged that a contractor for the controversial Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) was in attendance at her wedding.
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It appears that Steven J. Demetriou, the Executive Chair of a company called Amentum Services was also among the crowd gathered to see the happy couple say ‘I do.’
Amentum Services is currently the sole contractor for ICE’s Camp East Montana, a detention centre in El Paso.
The artist has faced swift backlash for her choice of guests, including online commenters who have shared their dismay on social media.
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Taylor Swift is a billionaire. Those who had the illusion that a billionaire can be anything other than a disgusting member of the unelected ruling elite just got a reality check.
Out of 1000 people invited to the wedding, the adoptive father of Travis Kelce 's childhood friend is an objectively evil person. Has there ever been a wedding in the world without one total dick that had to be invited because of some family obligation? Does anyone do in-depth investigations of all the plus-ones? Besides the journalists searching for celebrity dirt to exploit after the fact, that is.
Does anyone do in-depth investigations of all the plus-ones?
If I was a billionaire pop-star with a reputation to preserve, I would.
I guarantee you every single person who was invited at Taylor Swift’s wedding was personally vetted by her. Nobody there was there by mistake.
I’m not a pop star or anything, but the number of my husband’s friends’ parents who were invited to our wedding was zero.
Did these people run out of actual friends and family to invite? That’s sad.
I’ve literally never heard of anybody inviting their friends’ parents to their wedding.
If you offered a friend a plus-one and they brought a parent rather than a date it could have happened to you.
No War But The Class War.
“followers of billionaire shocked to find out billionaires act like billionaires, don’t care about fans opinions”
You CANNOT be a billionaire AND a good person. The two are not compatible. If you were a truly good and decent person who cares about others, you WOULDN’T BE A BILLIONAIRE
If I were a billionaire my job would quickly be to find good ways to give away my money. Cancer research, paying for school lunches, fund libraries, found some sort of institution that makes life better for people.
Yep. That’s exactly what Mackenzie Scott (Bezos’ ex-wife) did when she got her divorce settlement, got busy giving it all away. More power to her.
Yes, but you would’ve started doing this long before you became a billionaire, which would’ve precluded you becoming a billionaire in the first place. Unless you had a change of heart after being visited by three ghosts or something like that.
I think Stoly is more implying an incredibly unlikely event in that they are suddenly in possession of a billion dollars, kinda like the Adam Sandler movie “Mr Deeds”
That is correct and very charitable on your part. There is a way in which sometimes the machine starts churning and suddenly the person is a billionaire.
I’d seen I think it was Powerball jackpots reaching close to a billion, I know it’d be like half or less after taxes (silly thing that US taxes lottery winnings), but even half a billion is pretty much “fuck you” money for most people
I genuinely think that a million dollars is enough for most people to live well. Use it responsibly, buy a house, invest the rest. If you work a job that you like on the side, then that’s all straight savings.
That really depends on where you live. A million dollars where I live is enough to buy a house and start a retirement investment that might be enough to retire on in 10-20 years if you keep contributing to it and the yields are good.
Granted average house price for a modest house (1300sq ft) went from 200k to 800k in the last 10 years here…
I think I’d just buy the same politicians they do to fund that stuff permanently instead.
If you were I billionaire most of your money wouldn’t be cash on your bank account in stocks/shares most probably. If you try to sell these shares all at once you won’t find enough buyers and would have to sell at a way lower value. You could try selling them off bit-by-bit over time to gain liquid capital that you could use to invest in helping people
Mostly I agree with this but not as a blanket statement. I wouldn’t view it as “good or bad”, but rather " does their behavior cause harm?". In the cause of the vast majority of billionaires, yes, they cause harm to get to where they are. Examples like Swift, Jackson and Rowling where they have become billionaires through entertainment are less straightforward. But there is still the question of why are they hoarding all that money, which quite obviously does harm
Billionaires DO NOT BECOME BILLIONAIRES THROUGH HARD WORK
They become stupid rich via exploitation.
Barring some massive astronomical movie coincidence that makes the rich overnight by surprise, they got their wealth DISHONESTLY.
THERE ARE NO GOOD BILLIONAIRES.
By holding on to it instead of using all but what they actually NEED (lpt you don’t NEED a 15 million dollar house) they prove it every single day.
Taylor swift could almost single handedly ensure no child in the US goes hungry, yet… Doesn’t. List any number of charities a billionaire donates to, the fact that they’re still a billionaire means it’s NOT ENOUGH.
Every day they have many orders of magnitude more than the average person, they prove they’re pieces of shit not worth our time.
Yeah
I saw an article about how fans were excited that they were giving out leftover food from MSG… Here I’ll just find the quote:
With more than 1,000 guests in attendance, there was naturally plenty of food. A Krispy Kreme truck carrying doughnuts was seen leaving the venue, along with boxes from Sweet Baby Ray’s, the barbecue sauce brand, and Butterball (known for its turkey products).
She’s a fucking billionaire, and her wedding food is all (likely free) product endorsement, brand name bullshit.
Zero class. Zero taste.
It’s free stuff, fuck it.
She’s a billionaire, cost is entirely irrelevant. They could have had quite literally anything, and they chose Krispy Kreme and Butterball Turkey
She’s an evil billionaire. No billionaires are good people
He’s the adoptive father of Travis Kelce’s longtime friend, but sure blame the woman.
They are a couple and they both share the responsibility of how their wedding went. Your right to point out Travis’ part in this but ultimately she isn’t helpless and is willing to associate herself with these people too.
Gee, maybe she should have pushed back on that invite. Or maybe they could have had their wedding in private rather than making it a spectacle that shut down a chunk of Manhattan, where the guest list would be a little less open to critique.
I can believe that Taylor is a trash person. Lots of rich people are. I still don’t understand the seething hatred some people have for her, though. (I mean that I don’t understand it if I forget about misogyny.)
What really seems hypocritical to me is a lot of the ones here are all “seize the means of production” but shit on her, after she re-recorded her entire catalog to earn the money to buy back the rights to her own original work from the producers who were exploiting her. Badassery without violence threatens their manhood I guess.
Yes she’s self-interested, even self-centered. But they act as if she’s in the Evil Billionaire Top Ten when there’s mere millionaires who are more evil than her.
To be fair, many have a seething hatred for all rich people.
Who invites their friends’ parents to their wedding?
I didn’t, but I gave my best friend a plus-one invitation. He chose not to bring anyone but if he’d brought his mom I wouldn’t have known until she arrived.
Blame everyone! Mwahahahahahhaaaaa!!!
Sorry, the good Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Because she’s DEAD!
OK, but…
One moment at the ceremony has sparked outrage after Girls star Lena Dunham reportedly left fellow attendees shocked.
According to Daily Mail, her speech described football as ‘just straight guys reenacting gay porn.’
I love Lena so much.
You mean the Woman who Printed thirty DIFFERENT copies of her Expensive albums so her Fans would HAVE to get ALL of Them despite the ONLY difference being the album Color isn’t a Good Person? I’m SHOCKED!
Have these fans no agency?
Not really
Why would you buy it 30 times just to get a different color? Was that in any way shape or form common for fans?
Why do they have to buy all of them
Because they’re swifties.
A well-known Zionist officiated the wedding…
You’re talking about Adam Sandler?
The Waterboy?
Yes
What a fucking letdown that is, I didn’t know. I knew he was Jewish of course but I didn’t think he’s the kind of person to support this much horror. Guess he goes the way of Andy Samberg.
Damn it what happened with Andy
I can’t find anything, I think they confused Samberg with Sandler?
I was told he is a Zionist, think I read it somewhere too.
I’m not particularly surprised. A lot of people conflate family origins with personal identity.
“Kiss me, I’m Irish!”
“You’re either with us or against us!”
“Axis of evil.”
Race biases. Class biases. Gender biases. Etc etc etc, and most of it is unconsciousness and subjective.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Carl Jung
Please tell me this isn’t true or I’ll start to worry about my love, Joanna.
TIL people were still worshipping celebrities after Covid
even before covid, if you can believe it
If I were a billionaire I’d keep giving my money away to bring it down to 900 million or so. Then I could hide better. Also, I’ve always wanted to buy one of those super yachts and a politician. /s
You’re in luck! There is a huge sale on buying politicians under the current administration
There’s always been sales on politicians, this admin just lets them be more blatant.
To the swifty: there’s nothing wrong with liking an artist, and there’s also nothing wrong with liking an artist’s music. You can also like the idea of someone, whether or not that idea is accurate. It’s hotly debated, but I believe these things can also exist independently of each other, and it’s important to recognize they are different.
It is important to recognize that the public figure of Taylor Swift is a business enterprise that is different from the person, the idea, and the music. It is important to recognize that the same enterprise, much like other celebrity enterprises, maintain teams of full-time staff for topics like PR, upon which the entire enterprise is dependent.
They do things that seem good the economically optimal amount to maximize the ROI on those things. If Taylor Swift the person gave a shit about the stuff the enterprise claims she does, she wouldn’t have $1,000,000,000
The artist has faced swift backlash…
Writer just couldn’t resist, could they?
She’s just a marketing tool. Never real and always a scammer
The amount of morons who think billionaires care about them is staggering. You have to be willfully ignorant to not see the pure contempt they have for the rest of us.
It’s takes a special sort of idiot to believe that someone who hoards wealth would give a fuck about anyone else.
Taylor Swift is super rightwing, has been for a while.
Why did she endorse kamala?
I don’t really follow her, her music, or her fandom. I just assume she loves money and shallow shit like most celebrities.
[dumbassery removed]
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_wtAOKOW1z/
I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them. I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos. I was so heartened and impressed by her selection of running mate @timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a woman’s right to her own body for decades.
I dunno man, reads like an endorsement to me.
I yield to your superior knowledge.
Just a flesh wound! *hops on leg stumps*
