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      I like to assume the best of people. I like to think that some people are putting on a role of being dumb because it pays. I like to assume that people I don’t know well enough are smarter than they appear to be. I do all this because being a cynic is depressing.

      But sometimes, people go out of their way to dispel that charitable assumption.

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    Did she surprise them because they’re fucking idiots? Of course she’s one of them- she’s a fucking idiot.

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    It’s insane how rich people are so disconnected from reality and live in their own bubble ignoring all the horrible and evil things their fellow rich people do. At the end of the day is really is just a club of rich people with no real morals and the 99% are being tricked and lied to.

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      Part of being wealthy is you don’t know if someone loves you or is being nice because they want something from you. It’s incredibly isolating at an emotional level.

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    I love it when minorities join conservative movements … they’re always the first to get thrown under the bus.

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    Let’s just stop caring what celebrities think, please. Unless they have education in science, economics, international relations, or other relevant areas they are even less qualified than random people on the street, as they are rich and likely out of touch with reality in multiple ways.

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      Let’s just stop caring what celebrities think, please. Unless they have education in science etc…

      Mayim Bialik has a PhD in neuroscience and she’s a vaccine skeptic and has a host of other offensively stupid ideas, so clearly not even having an education really counts as qualifications anymore.

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        There have been Nobel Prize winners who have held completely crackpot ideas outside of the often narrow field of research for which they won their prize: Shockley and Kary Mullis, to name two.

        And it’s not like Bialik is an immunologist. What’s neuroscience got to do with vaccines?

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          and remember that PHD that was obsessed with race being “lesser than whites” under certain profession(i believe he was a psychologist)

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        alot of STEM people are nutty to, when they get drawn into a cult. i was in a forum about lyme and these middle aged white people(are the predominant members in this cult), some of them has a MS in sciences and believed in “lyme being a forever disease”{

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      Her husband is a convicted rapist, and her brother is in prison for child rape. She loudly defended both of them, so I imagine she feels right at home with this admin

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          TBF they have done a lot of studies on the general populace in the americas and they have shown that the everyday person (which I am sure is a lot of her fans) doesnt care about any of it, they are so done with the nonstop barrage of shit some of it huge but takes years to do anything, most of it is just nothing burgers trying to get headlines. They are weary and need help, and I think that seems to be part of the plan to makes sure those that could help swing things are so checked out they just recoil when any subjects of that matter are brought up.

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            That seems pretty accurate. I’m an American who would claim that they care more than the typical person and even I’m so fucking sick of it all. I’m completely resigned to the fact that AI is going to make all of our issues 100000x worse along with the media consolidation into the hands of right wing billionaires… Our so called justice system failed every check imagineable and is now in the hands of Trump cultists and our judiciary has been stacked with a rubber stamp majority for the next 30+ years. I have absolutely no faith for the future…

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          I think it’s pretty accurate. Go find a big fan and tell them what she did and let me know how they don’t care. I’ll wait…

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            I wasn’t “Barb” status but I liked her music enough to go to her concert.

            All my downloads are deleted now though after this headline. I was already side eyeing her after she liked a tweet he made or whatever earlier this year.

            No more watching her music vids or buying any future albums either. Had to do the same thing with Nova Rockafeller a couple years ago. God damnit.

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                No disagreement there. Ugh, I really wish us fans were more willing to send messages to the celebrities we like in general.

                Unfollowing/deleting/refusing to buy new content is really the only power we have on our level.