Your posts are a calming balm to my angry, ranting soul, thank you. At least I know I’m not the only one and with luck there are more like us beginning to be heard.
I think Ms Eilish is about to get a lot of people looking to move in to her Malibu mansion (as no-one is illegal on stolen land), which is going to be very embarrassing, stressful and confusing for her, and just the wakeup call these vacuous idiots need.
She is currently living on "stolen land" that she paid millions to buy. If she genuinely feels this way, she needs to give it back to the native tribe whose ancestral land it is.
Truly excellent and cathartic to read. This captures every frustration I’ve had with this rank celebrity hypocrisy. I was going to write something but you’ve said it better than I could. Thank you.
Thanks, Lucy – very kind. And for anyone interested, Lucy writes thoughtfully and clearly on her Substack about antisemitism and related issues. Highly recommended.
Like Lucy said, there's nothing to add to this. Accurately defined representation of how many of us feel about the over-priveleged 'celebrity talking heads'. I am so sick of their virtue signalling on issues that they don't have the faintest inkling about and their resounding silence over Iran but, as you said, to protest over Iran would invalidate their narrative and posturing over 'trendy' issues.
Brilliant article Frederick 🎯. Spot on and thoroughly skewered. The audience at the awards ceremony has the uncanny echo of the hopelessly detached from reality preening audience in the Hunger Games capitol.
You are channeling my inner hypocrisy meter. Thanks for deflating the egotistical bubble. Hollywood as the performance iconography of "woke" virtue signalling, worse even than progressive politicians who at least have to argue their corner from time to time.
Thank day is indeed coming and having had the privilege of living and studying in Iran during the 1970s, I can say that Americans and Europeans and Asians will once again surge into Iran as visitors, archeologists and historians, students, and consumers of delicious Iranian foods. The diverse topography (jungles adjacent to the southern Caspian Sea), Persian carpet makers (Tabriz, Tehran, Isfahan [my personal favs]), historical sites (Isfahan, Shiraz), aromas at each city's bazaar and neighborhood bakeries, the diverse cultures and religions, etc will be an immense draw to fly into Mehrabad Airport once again. All the best, Gary
To be fair to the celebs, they do have the disadvantage of being more visible. Most of us are too obscure for our idocies to be noticed. Celebrities are only human. They are not special people, they are regular people in a special position.
Frederick - WoW! So amazing how you see the ridiculous. The Earth is stolen land from dinosaurs. I’m laughing so hard, I’m tearing. Where can I buy a lizard-patterned onesie?! Thank you for sharing the inner workings of your beautiful mind.
Your posts are a calming balm to my angry, ranting soul, thank you. At least I know I’m not the only one and with luck there are more like us beginning to be heard.
Thanks, TT – glad it struck a chord. Yes, I think a lot of people are losing patience with this sort of thing now.
I think Ms Eilish is about to get a lot of people looking to move in to her Malibu mansion (as no-one is illegal on stolen land), which is going to be very embarrassing, stressful and confusing for her, and just the wakeup call these vacuous idiots need.
Yes, exactly.
She is currently living on "stolen land" that she paid millions to buy. If she genuinely feels this way, she needs to give it back to the native tribe whose ancestral land it is.
The fucking land belongs to all of us humans on this planet!
Some people wish to play the victim, others wish to live as survivors!
Truly excellent and cathartic to read. This captures every frustration I’ve had with this rank celebrity hypocrisy. I was going to write something but you’ve said it better than I could. Thank you.
Thanks, Lucy – very kind. And for anyone interested, Lucy writes thoughtfully and clearly on her Substack about antisemitism and related issues. Highly recommended.
https://lucytabrizi.substack.com/
Thanks for the recommendation.
I never see any of these celebs returning their properties to the Natives.
“a lizard-patterned onesie”
I needed that laugh.
Like Lucy said, there's nothing to add to this. Accurately defined representation of how many of us feel about the over-priveleged 'celebrity talking heads'. I am so sick of their virtue signalling on issues that they don't have the faintest inkling about and their resounding silence over Iran but, as you said, to protest over Iran would invalidate their narrative and posturing over 'trendy' issues.
Thank you! You have perfectly articulated this shitstorm of sanctimonious posturing. 👏👏👏
Brilliant Frederick, drop the 🎤 moment
Thanks, Ian!
You’re welcome
It is true to say that those that have zero jeopardy, find it easiest to be virtuous
I’ve never understood why anyone would take seriously what a celeb has to say
Very true.
Brilliant article Frederick 🎯. Spot on and thoroughly skewered. The audience at the awards ceremony has the uncanny echo of the hopelessly detached from reality preening audience in the Hunger Games capitol.
Cheers! I always think of the Hunger Games when the Met Gala comes around – a genuinely sinister display, I find.
I think she went on to say F**k ICE
What? All of them?
Even by Bonnie Blue standards that's a stretch. Some of them are just really fugly.
Would the person who's stolen Billie Eilish's brain please return it? She needs it back asap.
Their lives are built upon projecting fantasy. That's why they spout the fantastical.
You are channeling my inner hypocrisy meter. Thanks for deflating the egotistical bubble. Hollywood as the performance iconography of "woke" virtue signalling, worse even than progressive politicians who at least have to argue their corner from time to time.
Yes, the hypocrisy is nauseating. Ricky Gervais covered it brilliantly in that awards speech a while back, but they still didn't get the message.
Thank day is indeed coming and having had the privilege of living and studying in Iran during the 1970s, I can say that Americans and Europeans and Asians will once again surge into Iran as visitors, archeologists and historians, students, and consumers of delicious Iranian foods. The diverse topography (jungles adjacent to the southern Caspian Sea), Persian carpet makers (Tabriz, Tehran, Isfahan [my personal favs]), historical sites (Isfahan, Shiraz), aromas at each city's bazaar and neighborhood bakeries, the diverse cultures and religions, etc will be an immense draw to fly into Mehrabad Airport once again. All the best, Gary
Excellent, once again.
To be fair to the celebs, they do have the disadvantage of being more visible. Most of us are too obscure for our idocies to be noticed. Celebrities are only human. They are not special people, they are regular people in a special position.
Frederick - WoW! So amazing how you see the ridiculous. The Earth is stolen land from dinosaurs. I’m laughing so hard, I’m tearing. Where can I buy a lizard-patterned onesie?! Thank you for sharing the inner workings of your beautiful mind.
Glad you enjoyed it, Brad, and thanks for the kind words 😀