The amount of talent Black artists need to have (especially in 2025 where the industry is deprioritizing Black artists left, right, and center) to reach the level of success that was all but handed to Sabrina Carpenter…

It’s just not good. I don’t think it’s a sign of anything good.

"She’s hot why are you mad about it"

Nepo babies are never *completely* talentless hacks, and not all of them succeed, but she would have never seen 1/100th of the success she has if she wasn’t so conventionally pretty. I should not have to explain why that is very bad for society.

“She’s not centering men/catering to the male gaze” I don’t know how to argue with this bc I think y’all simply need your eyes and ears checked. Every single song she has is about desperately wanting male validation and every aspect of how she looks is entirely based on conventional beauty standards

Marilyn Monroe was raised in foster homes born to a mentally ill single mother during the Great Depression in a time before women could open checking accounts. When she did Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend, it was rebellious, incisive satire. When Sabrina does it, she is profiting off of privilege.

Imagine releasing 3 flop albums in a row (even with a huge existing audience backing you) and then instead of being written off as a commercial failure Jack Antonoff decides he’s going to start producing your music from now on and suddenly it’s a huge hit!!!

“She’s very feminist bc she’s doing a “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” maneater parody bit where she pretends to be a bimbo to exploit men’s prejudices for her benefit”

i.e. “Wealthy blonde nepo baby White woman profits off of being White and famous and conventionally attractive” wow amazing feminism

I agree with this: holding your nose is not a political strategy. You can’t achieve liberation for the marginalized by standing aside while fascists organize and advance their agenda

Our rights won’t be advanced under current Dem leadership but they will be decimated if we can’t form an alternative

Not to mention they literally dress the same

This is just the grunge era all over again but with smartphones

Women of both gens express this dissatisfaction by exercising sexual and financial autonomy while men channel theirs into a pining for hypermasculine reclamation in their rhetoric and media (ie: nu metal/Fight Club vs the rise of “podcast bros” as each genration’s male ideological centerpiece)

I think it’s fair to assume industrial applications are where AI has the potential to do the most good.

Once the bubble bursts and the mad-dash to shove it into every aspect of our lives ends, I hope to see more investment in these kinds of endeavors instead of creative fields.

The Dems do not want leftists to be part of their coalition; they don’t want our votes. They’ve proven countless times that they would rather lose to Republicans than win our approval.

I don’t know where we get the funding to do this meaningfully but it pretty much has to happen. There is no party that represents the will of the working class and anyone who tries to exercise those muscles within the current framework gets conspiratorially exiled.

That’s so sick w2g bluesky

I used Venmo and it worked

We are in the Golden Age of guerilla marketing

What do you mean “lost” that implies it was there to begin with