As always people of Gaza are the most generous
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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I heard about the wildfires yesterday, and thought: "ain't it the rich people who have homes in that area?"
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:( to all the people who aren't rich I'm sorry
There is like 6 fires, but one is a :) fire and the other five are probably :( fires.
All of the fires are :(
While the palisades fire is showing a lot of very rich folks that their money doesn't make them immune to fire, there are a lot of relatively regular people who were barely hanging on to their homes in a very expensive area who lost everything and could be financially ruined forever.
Don't get me wrong, vanishinlgy few of those in the palisades were poor before the fire. But a lot could be now if they were uninsured or if their insurance fucks them over.
There's a bunch of apartment buildings in the area that burned down too. Families who were protected by rent control lost their apartment and now where do they go?
Your comment reminds me of how hurricane Sandy turned into an opportunity to rezone and gentrify affected neighborhoods in New York. The poor always lose, the rich always win: https://apnews.com/article/superstorm-sandy-disparities-042c69728c10e92837360b8b31704eac
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Can you imagine being an insurance company right now, trying to fuck people over in their time of need? Gee, I sure how nothing bad happens to those poor insurance people just trying to do their job.
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I'm sure the :) fire gets prioritized too.
Lots of actors whose work you appreciated lost their homes. I'm not defending rich people, but many of these folks actually earned it, not all inherited or squatted on wealth. Anthony Hopkins, Cary Elwes, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Billy Crystal among others lost homes. I'm sure a lot of amazing Hollywood memorabilia went up in flames too.
E: Why the negativity? Just generic hating on rich people with no nuance? I draw the line at when people use their wealth, personally or politically, to put downward pressure on people's wages, benefits, and quality of life, doubly so if they personally benefit from it like getting a bonus for layoffs. I don’t hate on someone winning at life as long as they aren’t keeping others down to win more. If you want to hate on wealth save it for the execs trying to use AI to put these people out of a job. People like Goodman walked the line to support their unions. Show a little flexibility before you throw more torches on the fire.
I enjoy the work of those people, and will gladly offer token sympathy, but all of them have multiple homes and will be just fine. So I'm not going to waste my concern on them.
Some of them are using this opportunity to bring attention to the many people for whom this disaster is actually life-destroying, and that's where we should focus.
Unless all of their net worth burned up in the fire it might be difficult for some people to feel bad for them when they'll just buy another house from their luxury hotel room, or more likely, second or third home.
How did you know I liked all of those actors’ work? I feel predictable
They all have enough to recover with ease, aside from a few lost artworks and memorabilia.
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Fuck him - racist piece of shit genocidal privileged maniac.
Total stand-up guy, can't imagine why karma would have kicked his angry ass out of paradise....
What a child
Since becoming a father, I stopped using child as an insult. My child, still two, actually learns from his mistakes and feels bad when he does something wrong.
So, you had to wait until it impacted you to realize how unfair it was?
Just giving you shit, but as a schoolmarm I can confirm that adults are much shittier than kids
That's because adults are more imaginative. My cousin who's a total dick now as an adult, was also a total dick as a kid. He just was easier to deal with because his dickness was less sophisticated.
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Children are overwhelmingly not as shitty as this turd
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Meh. He's got money and can move to Texas or maybe Cancun. I hear the weather and electrical grid in Texas is fine this time of year.
He was crying on CNN not sure why
it's weird how an outright genocide, surprisingly recognized as such by nearly the entire world as it is happening, would cause people to voluntarily reveal themselves to be just cartoonishly evil.
That's unfortunate, I liked Oppenheimer. Always sucks to find out someone involved was a total dickweasel.
There's just so many people that work on movies and finance them that there has got to be a 100℅ chance that every great movie has a dickweasle wedged in the process somewhere.
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Forget it Jake, it's Hollywood.
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What's the context for James' tweet? Who is he suggesting to be killed?
Palestinians.
Fuck James Woods.
He made it out. Damn.
What is the bottom text ranting about? No ceasefire from what? Kill who all?
James Woods basically having Disney turn Hades into his personal self-insert character actually makes the parts of Kingdom Hearts where you beat the shit out of him that much more rewarding
First I've heard of him being a dick. Adding the name to the pile.
Oh he's far worse than this, and has been for at least a decade. He lost his damned mind a while ago.
Really? Even Family Guy has been making fun of his for his racist rants for like 20 years at this point. He’s like famously one of the biggest dipshits in Hollywood
Family Guy talks a lot of smack about a lot of people I have literally never heard of, and would have to look up.
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Fuck James Woods.
DEATH TO VIDEODROME
LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH
James Woods needs to stop snorting so much coke. He's a shitbag cokehead.
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