I think if authors are too poor to survive piracy and readers are too poor not to pirate then we need to have a really serious conversation about where all that money is and why it isn't circulating properly.
The thing is Shania said she would’ve voted for Trump (she’s Canadian btw) and that she’s not a feminist because men need protecting too, but I guarantee no one’s tweeting how disappointed they are or accuse Hozier and M&S of being adjacent to her views because of proximity.
Christ’s gospel was so radical, so contrary to the wisdom of the world, that people are still coping 2000 years later, insisting that he didn’t actually mean what he said.
The Library of Congress has selected Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ to be added to the National Recording Registry for preservation.
The registry chooses recordings based on their “cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.”
the biggest enshittification that ive seen post-2020 is every customer-facing job running off a skeleton crew cause every company realized that they can *technically* survive off of it and increase their profits in the process
now everyone remember to boycott Justin Baldoni, including the upcoming Audrey Hepburn biopic “Dinner with Audrey” he’s producing starring pedophile Ansel Elgort
Women’s rights are under attack. This is an abortion ban. They want women to get abortions before six weeks but THIS IS THE ABORTION METHOD AT 6 WEEKS!!!!
Been to hundreds of local shows as an adult but within a two year span tickets for Jimmy Eat World, same venue, same section within 2 years rose for me from $79 to fucking $226. This is a problem.
This is where the “both sides” caucus loses me. These examples aren’t in the same universe. The first is about private citizens acting. The other is the president putting his face and stamp on everything. It’s not just that one is “worse.” It’s that they are entirely different.