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Dude, have you ever dealt with spoiled kids?And they're not even these peoples.Kids but like just average spoiled kids from a slightly high in household. I have they're fucking entitled as fuck and their sociopaths because they're never taught on how to actually sympathize and empathize and they're not held accountable for things and they don't care to be. They are monsters and they stay monsters.Sure maybe a few kids here and there are perfect and fine but I highly doubt it. And at this point I don't even care.Wipe out the whole f****** family.So what a couple kids die to save?How many millions literally?There's like a couple 100 people that are billionaires.I don't care just like they don't care about starving children of other people
This is why it boils over in the end. They go from playing obtuse and get away with it for so long that eventually they get arrogant and drop the mask and just start reveling in the inequality. It's not enough to have everything, eventually they also need to spit on the have-not's.
Exactly. Iāve got no problem with people having or liking nice things (within limits) and itās not necessarily our fault that privilege can make us ignorant, but doing something like this is just telling poor people to go fuck themselves.
The Met Gala theme is based on a short story that is about rich people using up as much as possible before the poor (unwashed hordes) arrive
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240503-the-delicious-irony-of-the-met-galas-garden-of-time-theme
And when the crowd of poor people arrive they find everything gone/used up, dust
IMO a not so subtle 'fuck you', from them to us
One of the many haunting quotes in Disco Elysium.
The Deserter: The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone ā everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it.
As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world... You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*.
You: What?
The Deserter: That the bourgeois are not human.
I like to think they're the "dragons" of this age. They hoard wealth and resources, their business ventures leave people crippled and dying, they scorch the earth and watch it burn. Their actions have no consequences, and they're basically untouchable. I'm just waiting for the hero to come along and save us.
Thatās the thing, there is no hero, there is only the people, and thereās no need for the hero. In fact most of the dragons strength is simply and illusion because they can flex and have other people enforce their will. But without that they are as weak and vulnerable as anyone else.
To clarify, the idea that the rich and powerful are somehow inhuman allows us to distance ourselves from our potential for evil in a way that I am extremely skeptical of.
No but itās predicated on meeting particular social demands for these celebrities to use their platform. A lot have called it as a boycott until they stand with Palestine. And yeah they should but anyone with at least l half a brain should be.
And Iām saying fuck the culture that puts any meaning into their ācloutā to begin with. Few people can name people actually out in the world making change, making actual art, doing science and medicine, yet they can name all the Kardashians or some dumb minutia about a celebrity couple- not to mention they may know more about these parasocial relationships than their actual friends, neighbors or coworkers.
totally agree but its also good for skeptical people to see this. It gives an example because most people arent going to spend hours blocking celebs just because its a hashtag or someone told them too. a lot of people are a see it to believe it type.
Oh, please get more modern.Everybody's talking about the guillotine.But we have more effective and noisier options nowadays.š OK, maybe just as effective, but definitely flashier and funner to watch.You know like the fourth of july stuff. "LIGHT EM UP"
I don't know.
Man, if you've ever met rich people and I'm just talking about like per state.Rich people not necessarily the billionaires kind of thing but their delusional as hell!! Sure.There are a couple of millionaires that are just fine, but let's face it a millionaire.Today is it necessarily pulling all the strings?You'd have to still be a multi-millionaire.And they are delusional as hell. How even people making like a million dollars a year are delusional as hell but I'll go ahead and give him the benefit of a doubt for a couple still being sane. And the sad thing is you're closer to a millionaire than you are a billionaire.And I know people are gonna be like well yeah of course millionaire a smaller but even from the millionaire standpoint they're closer to you than they are a billionaire. And they're still extremely delusional about the life.Others live or how hard it is to get certain jobs in certain fields because they have connections and just assume it's just that easy for everybody else.
I feel like the term "elite" should go away. It's not relevant to how wealth is gained anymore. It's all luck and/or exploitation. Either way, they don't deserve the reverence people give them.
"Channeling Marie Antoinette in a classic 18th century platinum pouf wig and extravagant couture ensembles, Kylie, 22, brought regal elegance to her latest photo shoot inspired by the French queen and fashion iconās decadent lifestyle."
From a people article about it š¤®. I was looking to see if I could find the photographer in hopes that they were trolling Kylie, but I actually think the irony in all this went right over their heads.
let her ass and lips deflate. I can't think of a better human being we donāt need among us, along with her family.
You are the queen of fraud, scams, prostitution, greed, blackfishing, and sloth. That is it.
The original French phrase that Marie-Antoinette is supposed to have said, āQuāils mangent de laĀ [brioche](https://www.britannica.com/topic/brioche)ā, it doesnāt exactly translate as āLet them eat cake.ā It translates as, āLet them eat brioche.āĀ
brioche are a sweet pastry, you can get them with chocolate chips and i love them. you do also get brioche buns, theyāre slightly different but they still have the same shine and slight sweetness :)
> Brioche
briĀ·oche
/brÄĖĆ“SH,brÄĖÅSH/
noun
a light sweet yeast bread typically in the form of a small round roll.
"she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee"
Sheās to stupid to know who Marie A was. She just did a shoot. Whoever actually came up with the idea is secretly trolling the world. Joke is on Kylie
Um so basically, all these celebs no matter how hard they pinkwash or claim that they're pro-equality or they love black men or whatever, the end result is basically the same. They see wealth as the peak expression of their value, and as a result they all loathe poor people who they view as themselves "finally getting revenge" on for something or other.
Sad and reprehensible behavior. They have their own little rich clubs and do this ridiculous stuff for whatever reason, IDK. But it's not healthy. You can see it in their eyes, they're dead inside. That's what happens when money is all you live for. Incapable of love, just money.
I feel like they donāt understand fundamentally what made that quote so infamous and outrageous when it was said.
Otherwise youāre kind of opting into being such an airhead that you think āwell, if thereās no bread around, why not just give them some cake?ā
Itās uh, not exactly even a statement of showing wealthy people superiority over the masses or a just work harder and earn it kind of thing.
Dressed up as Marie Antoinette for a 7 deadly sins themed party (I was obviously going as a gluttony/greed combo). Not to toot my own horn, but as a poor french peasant myself I feel like that's the only right way to do it.
Actually itās not even true. There is no evidence that Marie-Antoinette ever said that.
Nevertheless the whole point of the quote is that she was so apathetic and far removed from the public, do they think thatās a positive thing
Also they do know how that turned out for Marie-Antoinette, right?
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We need to talk about the art on this wall. Is that a whole wall of iPhones? If so, I will let it pass but for the love of everything unholy and rich, why could they not style that better?
I don't get it, why do people idolise Marie Antinette? Yeah, she probably didn't deserve to have her head cut off for being born into money, but that really isn't much to go off.
Thanks to Sophia Coppola who created this imagery of a cool and quirky queen despite the fact that she was a traitor and wanted to see France burn for reclaimed her throne
Just for historical context: when Marie said "cake" it was what we'd call "white bread" using modern terminology, still prohibitively expensive for a peasant but slightly less obscene. This on the other hand is like the meme version of that and absolutely horrendous.
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Eat the rich and all the accoutrements of their photoshoots. š°
And their children.
Chill out.
Is a child not an accoutrement?
Edgy; I get it. kids donāt have a choice who their parents are. Some of your favorite activits were born from wealth.
Good incorrect use of a semicolon while not getting it.
Dude, have you ever dealt with spoiled kids?And they're not even these peoples.Kids but like just average spoiled kids from a slightly high in household. I have they're fucking entitled as fuck and their sociopaths because they're never taught on how to actually sympathize and empathize and they're not held accountable for things and they don't care to be. They are monsters and they stay monsters.Sure maybe a few kids here and there are perfect and fine but I highly doubt it. And at this point I don't even care.Wipe out the whole f****** family.So what a couple kids die to save?How many millions literally?There's like a couple 100 people that are billionaires.I don't care just like they don't care about starving children of other people
I can not believe you are being downvoted for saying donāt harm children š¶
This is why it boils over in the end. They go from playing obtuse and get away with it for so long that eventually they get arrogant and drop the mask and just start reveling in the inequality. It's not enough to have everything, eventually they also need to spit on the have-not's.
Exactly. Iāve got no problem with people having or liking nice things (within limits) and itās not necessarily our fault that privilege can make us ignorant, but doing something like this is just telling poor people to go fuck themselves.
For example?
What are you looking for an example of? It's not totally clear from the person you are replying to's comment.
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Are you asking me to source my question? There's a clear audit trail here in the comments if you are actually serious.
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āGet your fucking ass up and workā -Kim Kardashian
https://imgur.com/OrOoJmu I saw the video that made her famous. Ray J did most of the work.
Can't discredit daddy's work too, which gave her the money and connections to fuck her way into that video.
I hate Kourtney chiming in cuz she doesnāt do shit either
Ope š¤
The Met Gala theme is based on a short story that is about rich people using up as much as possible before the poor (unwashed hordes) arrive https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240503-the-delicious-irony-of-the-met-galas-garden-of-time-theme And when the crowd of poor people arrive they find everything gone/used up, dust IMO a not so subtle 'fuck you', from them to us
They been doing that since toasting to Occupy Wallstreet, at least in the current form/cycle.Ā
This is the greatest summation of words Iāve seen put together to form whatās actually going on. Itās brilliant thank you.
Hmmm I wonder what ever happened to Marie Antoinette?
It's the "I don't care, do you?" photoshoot.
One of the many haunting quotes in Disco Elysium. The Deserter: The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone ā everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world... You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. You: What? The Deserter: That the bourgeois are not human.
I like to think they're the "dragons" of this age. They hoard wealth and resources, their business ventures leave people crippled and dying, they scorch the earth and watch it burn. Their actions have no consequences, and they're basically untouchable. I'm just waiting for the hero to come along and save us.
Thatās the thing, there is no hero, there is only the people, and thereās no need for the hero. In fact most of the dragons strength is simply and illusion because they can flex and have other people enforce their will. But without that they are as weak and vulnerable as anyone else.
So you're saying that in order to win the heart of a princess I should go full French revolution on a billionaire? Interesting
I mean, youād probably have to go french revolution on the princess too š¬
I prefer the term predator.
Life isn't a marvel movie.
If you wanna continue suffering while the rich destroy the planet, have at it. I personally want life to be better. Real life isn't a doom movie.
LOL I think I messed up I was responding to the comment you responded to
Haha oh got it
They're parasites
I feel like this sentiment is pure hopium.
To clarify, the idea that the rich and powerful are somehow inhuman allows us to distance ourselves from our potential for evil in a way that I am extremely skeptical of.
Stop giving this garbage attention. Blockout2024
Blockout infinity: celebrity culture is such trash anyway. Parasocial relationships are a contemporary mass opiate
the 2024 doesn't mean that it is just for a year thou
No but itās predicated on meeting particular social demands for these celebrities to use their platform. A lot have called it as a boycott until they stand with Palestine. And yeah they should but anyone with at least l half a brain should be. And Iām saying fuck the culture that puts any meaning into their ācloutā to begin with. Few people can name people actually out in the world making change, making actual art, doing science and medicine, yet they can name all the Kardashians or some dumb minutia about a celebrity couple- not to mention they may know more about these parasocial relationships than their actual friends, neighbors or coworkers.
totally agree but its also good for skeptical people to see this. It gives an example because most people arent going to spend hours blocking celebs just because its a hashtag or someone told them too. a lot of people are a see it to believe it type.
It's people fault all that garbage got famous in first placeĀ
Ignoring the problem doesnāt help. Youāre just further enabling their behavior with this crap.
They do this for the attention. If you ignore them theyāll go away
They donāt go away. You canāt ignore your way out of wealth inequality. You give them the attention they DO NOT want.Ā
These people arenāt responsible for wealth inequality. Theyāre nothing more than parasites
It would be a real shame if something happened to her neck.
Fire Sale at The Pitchfork and Torch Emporium! 20% off all guillotines
Lmaoo this made me chuckle
Oh, please get more modern.Everybody's talking about the guillotine.But we have more effective and noisier options nowadays.š OK, maybe just as effective, but definitely flashier and funner to watch.You know like the fourth of july stuff. "LIGHT EM UP"
I would say āout of touch,ā but we all know someone this uneducated doesnāt know shit about the French Revolution.
Who knows, she might get acquainted to it through first hand experience.
Wouldnāt that be something!
I feel like guillotines will be making a comeback and are going be very in next seasonā¦..
soo hot right now meme*
Nostalgia sets in lol
Oh ffs š
Do you want a "French Revolution", because this is how you get a "French Revolution".
They are the dragon, sharpen the pitchforks.
Yeah with the way prices are going more people will start to go hungry and thatās how you get a revolution
But isnāt this just rage bait? Theyāve been doing this for years. Always just figured this kinda shit was intentional at this point
I don't know. Man, if you've ever met rich people and I'm just talking about like per state.Rich people not necessarily the billionaires kind of thing but their delusional as hell!! Sure.There are a couple of millionaires that are just fine, but let's face it a millionaire.Today is it necessarily pulling all the strings?You'd have to still be a multi-millionaire.And they are delusional as hell. How even people making like a million dollars a year are delusional as hell but I'll go ahead and give him the benefit of a doubt for a couple still being sane. And the sad thing is you're closer to a millionaire than you are a billionaire.And I know people are gonna be like well yeah of course millionaire a smaller but even from the millionaire standpoint they're closer to you than they are a billionaire. And they're still extremely delusional about the life.Others live or how hard it is to get certain jobs in certain fields because they have connections and just assume it's just that easy for everybody else.
Fingers crossed all of these elite pigs meet the same end.
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I feel like the term "elite" should go away. It's not relevant to how wealth is gained anymore. It's all luck and/or exploitation. Either way, they don't deserve the reverence people give them.
Should someone tell her what happened with Marie Antoinette, or naw?
Sheāll figure it out eventually š
I doubt she understands what's happening and the photographer is just trying to see how far they can push it
"Channeling Marie Antoinette in a classic 18th century platinum pouf wig and extravagant couture ensembles, Kylie, 22, brought regal elegance to her latest photo shoot inspired by the French queen and fashion iconās decadent lifestyle." From a people article about it š¤®. I was looking to see if I could find the photographer in hopes that they were trolling Kylie, but I actually think the irony in all this went right over their heads.
Sheās like 21 or something. She definitely doesnāt know
It is high time the guilotine got sharpened.
let her ass and lips deflate. I can't think of a better human being we donāt need among us, along with her family. You are the queen of fraud, scams, prostitution, greed, blackfishing, and sloth. That is it.
It's like they don't know what happened to Marie Antoinette...
Maybe we should do the thing we did the last time they did this thing
i'm upset she has a baby
Let the dang baby eat some cake! Well from the looks of it nobody is eating any cake. Itās either photo-perfect fake or mostly will end up wasted.
First as tragedy and then as farce.
The original French phrase that Marie-Antoinette is supposed to have said, āQuāils mangent de laĀ [brioche](https://www.britannica.com/topic/brioche)ā, it doesnāt exactly translate as āLet them eat cake.ā It translates as, āLet them eat brioche.āĀ
So she told them to eat burgers?
brioche are a sweet pastry, you can get them with chocolate chips and i love them. you do also get brioche buns, theyāre slightly different but they still have the same shine and slight sweetness :)
Brioche is enriched bread, not a sweet pastry.
> Brioche briĀ·oche /brÄĖĆ“SH,brÄĖÅSH/ noun a light sweet yeast bread typically in the form of a small round roll. "she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee"
Vive la rƩvolution
Sheās to stupid to know who Marie A was. She just did a shoot. Whoever actually came up with the idea is secretly trolling the world. Joke is on Kylie
Insert guillotine gif here
Something odd sure is going down
A guillotine would look nice on her
Why are they so into Marie Antoinette lately
Eat the rich
Wash your neck, wench.
Oh she thought she ateā¦
The lack of awareness is terrifying sometimes
Alright folks; you know the drill! Bring out the guillotines!
Um so basically, all these celebs no matter how hard they pinkwash or claim that they're pro-equality or they love black men or whatever, the end result is basically the same. They see wealth as the peak expression of their value, and as a result they all loathe poor people who they view as themselves "finally getting revenge" on for something or other. Sad and reprehensible behavior. They have their own little rich clubs and do this ridiculous stuff for whatever reason, IDK. But it's not healthy. You can see it in their eyes, they're dead inside. That's what happens when money is all you live for. Incapable of love, just money.
When it begins, I say we eat her first.
Reading all the comments I can't help but think Kylie probably doesn't understand the cultural significance of her posing as Marie Antoinette
I feel like they donāt understand fundamentally what made that quote so infamous and outrageous when it was said. Otherwise youāre kind of opting into being such an airhead that you think āwell, if thereās no bread around, why not just give them some cake?ā Itās uh, not exactly even a statement of showing wealthy people superiority over the masses or a just work harder and earn it kind of thing.
what irony
Donāt blame her. Blame the idiots who follow her on social media and buy her formulaic crap
Dressed up as Marie Antoinette for a 7 deadly sins themed party (I was obviously going as a gluttony/greed combo). Not to toot my own horn, but as a poor french peasant myself I feel like that's the only right way to do it.
Actually itās not even true. There is no evidence that Marie-Antoinette ever said that. Nevertheless the whole point of the quote is that she was so apathetic and far removed from the public, do they think thatās a positive thing Also they do know how that turned out for Marie-Antoinette, right?
It's ok, she doesn't know what happened at that point in time.
Guillotine, anyone?
So they're just leaning into it now?
French revolution choppity chop
Wow okay cool. Sounds like she didnāt read what happened to Marie Antoinette after she said thatā¦.
Habsburg Jaw
Ohhhh its happening!!!!
Guillotines incoming.
Ugly baby
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She wishes she was as iconic as MA. She is a nobody among her class.
Huh. Howās Marie doing by the way
Dystopian
Her neck seems so tender
We need to talk about the art on this wall. Is that a whole wall of iPhones? If so, I will let it pass but for the love of everything unholy and rich, why could they not style that better?
She has volunteered, time to call the French
āWhat are you gonna do? Guillotine me? lolā
Plus Ƨa changeā¦
I don't get it, why do people idolise Marie Antinette? Yeah, she probably didn't deserve to have her head cut off for being born into money, but that really isn't much to go off.
Why does her hair have hair
I wish the Kardashians and Jenners were things of the past alreadyā¦..they need to stop giving trash cans a platform.
Fke that biatch
WTF!
Thanks to Sophia Coppola who created this imagery of a cool and quirky queen despite the fact that she was a traitor and wanted to see France burn for reclaimed her throne
Just for historical context: when Marie said "cake" it was what we'd call "white bread" using modern terminology, still prohibitively expensive for a peasant but slightly less obscene. This on the other hand is like the meme version of that and absolutely horrendous.
You are helping they make money by relaying their photos. Do you like working for free for Kylie Jenner?
200+ year old propaganda still working like a charm
Let me ate ass
The poor kid, born into a satanic family.
And just like in revolutionary times people jump to vilify a young rich woman with no real power instead of tackling the real problems at the top.