celeb news Taylor Swift donates $5M for Hurricane Helene & Milton relief efforts

[velocity]

Just now, Venice B said:

In any way I was coming for Taylor, I think it's really she did this. My comment it was more about how unfair it is for someone to have that amount of money. But keep feeding the worms you have for brains, I guess 

Everything is unfair to people like you. Go complain to the government for failing it's people instead of bringing up a completely irrelevant point. Be glad people in need are getting help at all

[Jacobdaniel]

mama that's pennies for her

[piotrert]

11 minutes ago, ks_dollar said:

problematic philanthropy

Lol, you people are funny 

[Megan Pete]

6 minutes ago, velocity said:

Everything is unfair to people like you. Go complain to the government for failing it's people instead of bringing up a completely irrelevant point. Be glad people in need are getting help at all

While that users OG comment was definitely just meant to drag Taylor and an unnecessary addition to the thread, don't you think the reason the government is failing it's people is because it only serves billionaires?

[Taylor fanboy]

Sharing those FLORIDA!!! coins iktr 

 

Open up the safe, Florence.

[velocity]

1 minute ago, Megan Pete said:

While that users OG comment was definitely just meant to drag Taylor and an unnecessary addition to the thread, don't you think the reason the government is failing it's people is because it only serves billionaires?

No, they serve themselves and their interests. Corrupt companies and rich people exploit that, yes. That's why there is no reason to be mad at someone who does help. Plus I doubt this will be the end of her donations. The hurricane hasn't even met land yet.

[elincomprendid]

25 minutes ago, Venice B said:

This is like 5 dollars for her this is so infuriating but nice job 

If 5M dollars for Taylor is like 5 dollars for you it means your net worth is of 1600 dollars

 

In which case I fear you have more important things to be doing that crying in here.

 

OT: So crazy how present she isn

[Taylor fanboy]

4 minutes ago, Megan Pete said:

While that users OG comment was definitely just meant to drag Taylor and an unnecessary addition to the thread, don't you think the reason the government is failing it's people is because it only serves billionaires?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

[Rep2000]

20 minutes ago, Venice B said:

In any way I was coming for Taylor, I think it's really she did this. My comment it was more about how unfair it is for someone to have that amount of money. But keep feeding the worms you have for brains, I guess 

Sis, you can't even find an adj after "really".  Let's learn how to read the room 1st, shall we?

[Megan Pete]

3 minutes ago, velocity said:

No, they serve themselves and their interests. Corrupt companies and rich people exploit that, yes. That's why there is no reason to be mad at someone who does help. Plus I doubt this will be the end of her donations. The hurricane hasn't even met land yet.

Their interests which just happen to align with those of rich people and rich companies? If it was all about their personal interests then the biggest problem in the US would be politicians lining their own pockets, but its not. The biggest problem is 0 welfare and an economic system which forces working class people to pay more and more of their paychecks to rent/food/education, making the rich richer. Billionaires or even mega-millionaires including all our faves are the reason the system is broken and until they are addressed poverty & inequality will keep increasing.

[cat1867]

1 hour ago, Fama said:

I think she will start a charity foundation one day. The amount of money she has donated over the years is huge.

Celeb charities are so wasteful as they just end up employing their friends and family and then less than 20% of their money actually goes to the cause because on their high payroll costs.

 

Donating to effective existing charities is the best way.

[DevilsRollTheDice]

This website really can be a cesspool, hope some of these users aren't so insufferable irl. 
 

OT: Thank you, Taylor! Huge donation that will make an active difference 

[velocity]

27 minutes ago, Megan Pete said:

Their interests which just happen to align with those of rich people and rich companies? If it was all about their personal interests then the biggest problem in the US would be politicians lining their own pockets, but its not. The biggest problem is 0 welfare and an economic system which forces working class people to pay more and more of their paychecks to rent/food/education, making the rich richer. Billionaires or even mega-millionaires including all our faves are the reason the system is broken and until they are addressed poverty & inequality will keep increasing.

Their interest is bought with money. Do you think they'd give a **** if money wasn't flowing into their pockets? It doesn't really matter anyway, the result is the same and derailing the thread discussing their intentions is useless anyway. However, not all mega millionaires are the same. While i'm sure there is some exploitation happening with merch creation, etc ultimately taylor made her money by offering something non-essential and thus not exploitative. Real exploitation happens in the areas you mentioned - rent/food/healthcare etc.

 

At the end of the day this isn't even about that. It's about the people who are about to have their lives destroyed and any amount of money will feed them and help them stay alive, which is the ultimate goal. Using these people and their tragedy for petty stan wars is distasteful and gross. That's all I have to say on that topic

[Princess Aurora]

Beautiful

[réveuse]

1 hour ago, Bussea said:

ETHICAL BILLIONAIRE™

There are no ethical billionaires.

[aotearoa]

[Mrnoniee]

wow, look I made 5m donation out of the 2Billion(?) I made recently
let's publicise it and make sure it becomes good PR for me

[The Music Industry]

The Charity Industry

[Rep2000]

wow, look someone is making a huge donation which is much needed for those community 

let's be a complete insufferable ***** about it, yeah

[Bussea]

23 minutes ago, réveuse said:

There are no ethical billionaires.

now how did i know you were going to scurry in here and say something with one of your robotic posts 

Edited October 9 by Bussea

[NoOneDiesFromLove]

 

(instead of complaining about a billionaire giving little (?) how about complain about the ones who don't give at all)

[shimind]

2 hours ago, Venice B said:

In any way I was coming for Taylor, I think it's really she did this. My comment it was more about how unfair it is for someone to have that amount of money. But keep feeding the worms you have for brains, I guess 

so whats the alternative? that she should stop working? or she should do concerts for free? or she should give away all her 1.6 billion dollars to the poor for free? god this site is infested with ******* communists

[brazil]

And what about Xtina? Just taking ozempic and nothing more??? 

 

[Rep2000]

5 hours ago, shimind said:

so whats the alternative? that she should stop working? or she should do concerts for free? or she should give away all her 1.6 billion dollars to the poor for free? god this site is infested with ******* communists

Only the stupid ones who use political talking points for stan wars. Because if they wanna be mad, they could have been focusing on the real issues like how the Speaker of the House (R) refuses to call the Representatives together to vote on emergency funding until after the election. Just because they're afraid that would make Biden-Harris look good in this purple-red state.

These OTHs literally have nothing productive to add into the conversation beside parroting snark subs' talking points of complete useless 0 cents like "thErE's nO eTHicAl BilLiOnairE". They literally can't handle a wholesome story without being completely insufferable about it.

Edited October 10 by Rep2000

[shyboi]

one thing about Taylor, she is beyond generous, that's why life gives her so much me thinks