FOCK
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Clap if you're surprised. I told y'all about Michael & the concerted effort that happened in real time to scrub his online profile and articles that strongly tied him to Peter Theil and Palantir & his investments & financial benefit from the same surveillance ICE uses. It's how he made his money, and much of "philanthropic" stuff was added recently to make him more palatable. Now one of the main funders of this venture is an Israeli corp. But he proposed with a blade of grass, aww.
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The bathroom abortion ****** me up. The media has done such a disservice not adequately reporting the revelations & actual horrors in the book. That a person can endure this much trauma & be let down & abused by so many people they loved & still come out fighting and hopeful is just… no words. I know I said it already, but there's genuinely just no way someone can read it & have the same preconceived notions they may have held. Her resilience is inspirational.
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I urge you to read the book before passing this judgement, or better yet, listen to the audio book. Michelle Williams does an incredible job. As a die hard fan & a major sceptic of her camp, even currently, I'd be honest if I didn't think Britney wrote this book. She is actually well read, and her sassiness, tone & style is unmistakably her in it, or I wouldn't recommend it. You can clearly hear through the book, it never comes off as impersonal. She had spoken about wanting to write one countless times before & this one was created with the aid of Sam Lansky. They're the only 2 credits
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Brit was my number 1 ultimate fave & her music shaped and got me thru the toughest times. I was deep into the case for years so when the book came out, I got my preordered copy but put it off for so long because 1. I thought I knew everything, 2. I was still sceptical that it would be truly personal and 3. That it would be too sad. I was very wrong about the first two & unfortunately, severely underestimated the third. It's devastating, but also, so very important.
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It's devastating. And still so current. She makes a fantastic comparison between men in the industry that can do drugs, sleep around, throw tv's out windows & not face nearly the type of scrutiny & STATE control that was enforced on her. It's absolutely maddening & still is. The state & legal system is complicit in giving her abuser ownership of every imaginable facet of her life. It's literally like the film "obsession" was her reality. Actual horror. And the most heartbreaking of all, is she gave up her life for the chance to be able to nap with her kids & hold their hands. I'm inconsolable all over again, damn it.
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Your own father reviewing & disclosing your sexual history & demanding any potential partner disclose theirs, having ownership of your body down to what you can and can't eat & when, and whether you can procreate or not… not a laughing matter at all. It's exactly these types of people that need to read the damn book.
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"My life had become a Sunday school Bible church camp under the conservatorship. In some ways, they turned me into a teenager again. In other ways I was a girl, but sometimes I just felt like a trapped adult woman who was pissed off all the time. This is what's hard to explain - how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom. There was no way to behave like an adult since they wouldn't treat me like an adult, so I would regress and act like a little girl, but then my adult self would step back in, only my world didn't allow me to be an adult. The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild on stage the way they told me to be, and to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life. Those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human. They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as wrote as possible - it was death to my creativity as an artist." I wish anyone who is critical of the way Britney currently presents would actually take the time to read/listen to it. There is often this presumption made of her that she is unaware, or non self reflective. It's the complete opposite. She's highly self aware & forthright about her challenges, refreshingly so, and she has always been the key figure to her own success and career. I'm currently revisiting it after some years, after hearing of the tragic passing of Hayden… it's just as saddening, shocking & perspective setting as ever. A damning condemnation of patriarchy, female exploitation & the misogyny that runs rampant & unchecked in a world that poses as though it's built on law & justice. Even with all the reporting & countless docs on the matter, none have actually adequately captured just how hellish her father was. The woman endured food deprivation for focks sake!! The world was not mad enough. Britney enduring what she did is a testament to her inspirational strength and I'm so thankful to still have her here, still able to get up everyday and dance through pain & daring to be silly & vulnerable in the face of a cruel world's opinions. That she's willing to share anything at all is a miracle, and so focking punk. Britney Spears is the most fascinating public figure since Princess Diana. You will not erase her contributions, nor sully her name.
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Hi, so, an accepted industry standard in pig farming to eliminate baby piglets that are runts, ill, or generally considered not financially viable, is called "thumping". "Thumping" is just as it sounds. You grab the baby piglet by its hind legs and thump its head against the ground, to death. It is also accepted and the norm industry practice to castrate young piglets without any sedation or anaesthesia, by locking them upright in a contraption & twisting their testicles off as they squeal in agony - some farms even cut their tails at this age. Why? Pigs are highly intelligent & sensitive - just as smart as dogs - and they are literally driven so mad being cooped up in tiny pens, that they often resort to chewing each others tails off. Millions of pigs are gassed to death each day. Meaning, they experience everything mentioned above in their miserable youth, then live life in a dark, tiny warehouse, then get chucked on a truck to their death, where they essentially are burned alive from the inside out, as their eyeballs melt or explode and they gasp for air. And that's your bacon. If you love animals, don't eat them if you don't have to. Don't finance this industry with your dollars & direct this level of ire to the industries that get away with this level of cruelty, legally. OT: China is ridiculously overdue for actual animal welfare laws, in general. As dog ownership is becoming more popular there, there is a growing number of youth with different attitudes on this topic pushing for reform.
