Everything posted by Harrier
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Britney's son Jayden looks gorgeous for Mac Cosmetics
He has got that 2001 britney jawline. stunning! he will do well as a model
- Is "Hurt" by Christina Aguilera her peak?
- Roar vs yes, and?
- Israelis establish settlement in Cyprus
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Israelis establish settlement in Cyprus
You'll find no disagreement from me on this, there is no greater threat to international Jewish safety than Israel. I just would prefer if we not actively help the Israelis in their apparent mission to make the world so unsafe for Jewish people that Israel becomes a necessity. By buying into antisemtitic narratives and language, that is what folks are doing
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Israelis establish settlement in Cyprus
It is obvious why there is concern and handwringing when we are talking about a people group that was subjected to the largest scale genocide in history just 80 years ago. Where 66% of their population in Europe was wiped out. And when there are now many examples of antisemitic violence in "retaliation" for Israel's genocide. If Israeli Jews truly are demons that can't do anything except colonise and rape, then it follows that we should bondi beach them wherever they go. What yall hate about left liberals so much is that we actually make an attempt to understand the world and how it actually works in order to find paths forward, instead of buying in wholesale to the kind of simplistic and straightforward narratives pushed by extremists of all flavours. Nuance and complexity is written off as handwringing or not caring sufficiently about oppressed peoples or whatever, and then we are accused of supporting the right, or being genocide sympathisers. You hate that we have the gall to challenge your narratives in a way that forces you to confront whether your black and white thinking is psychologically any different to a different flavour of extremist you don't like We dont always get the balance right (I definitely dont) but it is better to try than to be someone who is comfortable calling groups of 4-5 million people a "cancer"
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Israelis establish settlement in Cyprus
This is side-eyeable for sure, but some of yall are entering problematic territory with the way you're talking about this, do you not hear yourselves 'They are a cancer to this world' 'They're incapable of anything but killing raping and colonising' 'Demons' based on this very limited information in the OP? Where nothing has actually happened yet? The use of language that describes them as being inherently evil? Do we not see how this is messy? Just yesterday I had a brief argument with two of my year 10s when they tried to tell me that 'the Jews control Australia'. This stuff is spiralling out of control, with Israel's acrions being the primary reason of course but we need to be careful. I mean any youtube video or tiktok featuring anything Jew or Judaism related at the moment has a comment section that is mein kampf meets the protocols Israel's genocide is truly awful and I hope they are held to account but do you speak the same way about Germans, Turks, Serbs, Hutus, Cambodians, Japanese etc? There is nothing inherently different about Israelis than any of these other groups, they have just undergone a process of radicalisation that has worsened under wartime conditions. Let's grapple with that, without walking into the language/territory of retaliatory genocide.
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Is the world turning too conservative?
The world has always been this way, the early late 00s and early 2010s just were a mirage in the sense that conservatives had not really made it onto the internet in the way they have now. Some things have backslid (like acceptance of LGBT) but overall these attitudes have always been dominant
- Rank these hits released at 49
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Madonna - 'CONFESSIONS II'
This could so easily have been terrible too, like a veteran artist trying to recapture the magic of a peak era can go so wrong. Like someone grasping at something they cant do anymore. Especially with Madonna, since her last 3 albums have not been well recieved. Yet she's smashed it. I would say this is even a more consistently great album than Confessions 1, though lacking the stratospheric high of Hung Up.
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Madonna - 'CONFESSIONS II'
Wow this album is good. I wonder if it will get some kudos during award season
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Democrats 'Project 2029' first proposal: Online Censorship
Quite a sensible and realistic take on this from you sis. Perhaps you can spread your good sense to some of the other members about the potential social good that can be done by this kind of government action. And how it would be nice if America wasn't the way it was! I happen to live in a democratic society where stronger government intervention/regulation on social matters is more accepted (see: COVID response in Australia, the fact that we were the first to things like mandatory seatbelts etc). Our polling shows between 75-80% of adults support the ban. It's a done deal.
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Democrats 'Project 2029' first proposal: Online Censorship
Lmao spare me this 'centrist libtard' ****, as if you people don't worship all the most authoritarian and censorious states in the world. Pearl clutching about 'suppressing dissent' is not really a concern in my context, our labor government (which seems to have inspired this worldwide movement towards the ban) is genuinely implementing this to try and do something for kids. The conspiritorial, slopulist **** has got to stop being applied where it is irrelevant. I can understand why Americans specifically might be worried about the data privacy side of this - ie around how exactly such a ban would be implemented. But I will say, I live in a country where this has been implemented and it has not affected my life at all, I haven't even had to put my ID in anywhere
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Democrats 'Project 2029' first proposal: Online Censorship
exactly I am proud that my country took the lead on this issue and our Labor government was the first to institute this ban, and has been prepared to take on the tech giants who hate this. It is not surprising that educators like you and myself who actually work with teenagers and see the impact of the damn phones every day are overwhelmingly in support of it. Our schools have also banned phones during school hours - they are confiscated on sight the moment the first class of the day starts. It has had a very positive impact Lots of kids are still getting around the ban (of course!) but it has been a powerful tool to hand over to parents and teachers that we now can say to kids that they are not allowed to use snapchat or whatever because it is against the law. Now I get like whatever misgivings about project 2029 or the Cory Booker centrist vanity project - like great folks are welcome to have those misgivings. I'm not really across what's going on there. Or on the questions around implementation (not sure how I feel about handing over digital ID to big tech either!). But on the actual moral/ethical question around should reduce children's access to this harmful ****: my answer is strongly and resoundingly, yes!
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Gracie Abrams says that the nepo baby discourse surrounding her is appropriate
Very true. The biggest element of nepo baby privelege is the ability to use your connection to get the job/get the gig. That can be enough in industries like acting and modelling to forge a career. Music retains that inherent meritocratic element where in the end people have to listen to your music and like your artistry. Now in parts of the music industry where it's less about you - say, you're looking to be a K-pop idol - then nepo baby stuff becomes much more relevant again.
- Britney sons walked the runway at Paris Fashion Week
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At least 10 Earthquakes reported in the last 24 hrs, Japan, Venezuela, US & More
surely not this 100k number ?????
- Tinashe debuts 3 years of celibacy. Keke chimes in
- Post songs you think almost everyone on ATRL likes
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Britney solo music are outstreaming Shakira and Beyoncé, why?
Britney's signature hits are among the most legendary of any pop artist full stop. The fact that her streaming numbers continue to improve organically despite her nearly decade long retirement is evidence that her stans were right about her power. She'd be a legacy act doing stadium tours right now had her personal life gone differently
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Janet Jackson serves stamina, body, and vocals at 60
Wow she is looking in great form
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Are we still in Taylormania?
She is still enormous but the peak has passed with the end of the eras tour
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K-pop Thread: Girls’ Generation-HRS Debuts Trance Bop ‘Skibidi’
Who is responsible for the clubby music trend in K-pop rn? It's really taking over. Finally recovering from NewJennies impact ig
- Ariana's alleged anorexia goes viral
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Ariana vs Britney: better discography?
Which are lower than anything in Ariana's discog, thus the lower lows. BOMT is also not a very good album but I am mainly referring to Britiney Jean with this comment, truly a stain on her discog Additionally there are big gaps between her "good" and "great" albums. ITZ and Blackout are waaay better than Femme Fatale or Britney. Whereas tbh a lot of Ariana's discog kind of blends into one.