• SuperApples@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    In the Saigon women’s museum I read about a older lady who would create mines from unexploded US ordinance and blow up US tanks with them. That’s pretty badass.

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    7 hours ago

    She’s a fucking billionaire, damn right she’s a bad bitch, but clearly not in the sense that the OP was thinking.

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      6 hours ago

      Im no Swifty but has she rally really exploited people to get to this level of wealth?

      Im just talking about the actual money here and not her carbon footprint or whatever.

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        Indirectly? Absolutely. Directly? Almost certainly, but it would depend on what you mean by ‘rally’.

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          Apologies for the typo, I meant really.

          As to my understanding TS made so much money cause she couldn’t get her masters and recorded them herself and her fans bought them. Essentially taking the line share which would normally go to the record companies. I don’t see how that is a bad thing, but I’m open to learning how it could be.

          You could argue she enables high ticket prices for concerts or whatever but again the artist is as beholden to TicketMaster and RockNation as the fans are.

          I don’t know much about her charitable work, but I think if you’re a billionaire you could always do more, that said aside from giving it all away at once it’s pretty hard to lose money once you’re that rich.

          She can certainly do more to be eco-conscious though.

          I actually sound like I’m into her, which I’m really not. Just wanted a discussion.

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            Personally I think of she did something to deal with the absurd amounts of eco problems caused by her concerts and general mass flights she wouldn’t really have any issues, at least that I’m aware of. As far as billionaires go, not bad.

            One hell of an environmental impact though.

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        Where does her money comes from? People who overpay for what she sells compared to what it’s worth.

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            Wrong, that’s what they have been conditioned to believe it’s worth because that’s what things are priced at, it has nothing to do with their actual value.

            You buy a Gucci handbag for 2k, it cost 50$ to make and sell, the rest is overhead going to investors. You think you paid a fair price because that’s what these things sell for but if you remove the leeches that have nothing to do with producing the good then you’re left with a 50$ handbag.

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          As I said further down to the other person. Artists are beholden to record labels, ticket master, and rock nation as the rest of us.

          It’s the system that is broken.

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            4 hours ago

            Are you pretending she gives away her cut?

            “Oh no, I have to keep these billions of dollars while the majority of people can’t imagine ever owning the place they live in!”

            Fuck off, stop defending rich people, they exist at our expense.

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                The answer is no, to become that rich you need to not care a single bit about the rest of humanity.

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    I want to include how she died, as it showed just how courageous she really was:

    Two months later, on 17 January 1944, Oktyabrskaya fought in another night attack. The battle would prove to be her last. The attack took place at the village of Krynki near Vitebsk. During the battle, she drove her T-34 about the German defenses, and destroyed resistance in trenches and machine-gun nests. The tank crew also destroyed a German self-propelled gun. Subsequently, the tank was hit by a German anti-tank shell, again in the tracks, and was immobilized. Oktyabrskaya immediately got out of the tank and began to repair the track, amid fierce small arms and artillery fire. She managed to repair the track, but she was hit in the head by shell fragments and lost consciousness. After the battle, she was transported to a Soviet military field hospital at Fastiv, near Kiev, and then to a military hospital in Smolensk, Russia. She remained in a coma for two months before finally dying on 15 March. She was buried with military honors at the Heroes Remembrance Gardens in Smolensk.

    As well as this gem:

    In 2014 US National Public Radio featured a cartoon of Oktyabrskaya to headline a story about “rejected princesses” that Disney and other storytellers had hitherto ignored.

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    11 hours ago

    No hate for Taylor Swift but she’s not even the baddest bitch on the radio…

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    11 hours ago

    Find a woman who loves you enough to kill Nazis for you. <3

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    There’s also literally any of the Night Witches on the Soviet side. I would include Joan of Arc, Captain Grace Hopper, Clara Maass, Ada Lovelace… basically any woman who actually did something.