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We need to reframe the question: why are basic social media features that were present on the app for years increasingly being locked behind a paywall? Like, you try Xtra thinking you're going to unlock the entire grid only to realize that's behind an even pricier tier.

Moultemort ran an entire campaign on "hey, but at least I'm not old!!" and not a single soul under 45 voted for him. Poor Spy Kids thumb.

The rebuke of Seth Moulton… thank god Markey won, I figured he would but I saw way more Moulton signs leading up to the election.

the excuses have already started I see.

A fascist fad. She will be gone by 2028.

I welcome class traitors to the movement if they're sincere.

What a magnificent, full life. Rest in peace.

My god, she ******* sucks

People that claim to care about animals more than people strike me as stupid, narcissistic, and antisocial. I don't find it quirky or compassionate, it's weird, performative and incel-adjacent.

poop vs. ****

Mind you, you're throwing around the word slop with a botched reality TV star as you avatar.

Life behind bars and NOTHING changed except the expansion of our surveillance state. It can't be a coincidence that Flock and Axon cameras went up a year after the murder.

She's so disgusting.

MA-06: Beth Andres-Beck is a democratic socialist and will be getting my vote. No clue how they fare in polling.

HELP I can't find my waist

In what sense

.3%… omg

Anime is genuinely terrible outside of Satoshi Kon's work. Same old plots, corny voice acting, rife with misogyny, always telling the plot instead of showing it, etc.

Yes, but you need to grow a beard, fatty.

Okay, you basically validated my original quote then.. I didn't paint her as a villain, I see her as a disturbed individual who isn't in the right state of mind to wield the influence of a popstar, like most people…

Just to be clear - please confirm if you think this music video went through multiple stages of approval from Ariana Grande herself, production, A&R reps, management, etc. without a thought as to how the state of her body might draw attention? And that the choice to airbrush her face but not her sternum in post-production wasn't intentional? The point that I made very clearly above was that she is a brand and there is an entire multimillion dollar apparatus behind her which bears some responsibility.

You recognize how macabre her thinness was in the music video, which is why you cropped her body out for your avatar. Her record label saw that as well and decided to keep it in to court controversy. You are asking us to suspend our visceral shock and concern so that you can continue to enjoy your fav's music in peace while she slowly dies. Not gonna happen, sorry.

Ariana Grande is a team of 50+ people. A&R reps, UMG executives, CAA agents, marketers, publicists, stylists, directors, producers, and Ariana Grande herself. The Ariana Grande Brand has immense cultural capital and influence, especially amongst young women and girls. Baring her sunken sternum in low-cut tops in the Petal mv, or accentuating her hollow clavicles with glitter in Wicked are deliberate choices that went through multiple levels of oversight and approval from the apparatus behind her. The former reads as pro-ana content in particular because anyone who understands marketing would know that it was done to taunt the general public and drum up controversy, which it did successfully. We weren't born yesterday and we know that nothing exists in a vacuum, so your infantilization of her as some meek, misunderstood woman doesn't hold up. We're talking about a public figure here.

Are you being intentionally obtuse or did you actually believe what you just wrote? I think homophobia is bad, so I want more gay representation in media to humanize gay people and combat ignorance. I think anorexia is bad, so I don't want pro-ana content reaching children and women via pop idols. Children aren't able to rationalize the content they're shown.

We are not going to normalize bodies like this especially when they belong to a popstar who is idolized by millions of little girls. Like, she wouldn't be baring her skeleton if she didn't want the conversation. Get ******.