I thought they were opposed to "hand outs".
188Yeah but only to poor people and whenever it fits their narrative
88In this case the narrative is "rich black girl (implicit: she received help and/or votes for people who want to help others) refuses to help her own family! (so why should we give our tax money when they don't even want to help their own?!)"
Disgusting right wing manipulation as usual.
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It's the daily mail. Anyone successful with a shade of skin darker than lightly-toasted white bread sends them scrambling to their keyboards in a race to see who can get their subscribers rage-reading the quickest.
67There's no conflict here. Hand outs are when the government gives money to undeserving people. Giving money to people and organizations of your choice is encouraged and laudable. Which sounds sensible on the surface.
And this is why governments have to provide the social safety net, no one is excluded and the rules aren't bendy.
21Well yes. Consent is important.
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The readers can use this story to justify opposition to social welfare policy.
The implication is
If mega-millionaire Simon Biles won't stoop to help her own mother, why should my tax dollars cover the difference?
18"they"?
0Republicans.
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Only when it's white people giving.
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Also feeds into the boomer narrative that their children exist to support them when they get old
99That notion is centuries older than America, let alone Boomers my friend.
61Thank fuck you're not my kid.
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I've talked on the verse about having a malignant narcissist for a mother and how our society is so busy worshipping mothers, that it doesn't stop to think some of us haven't got one. Or had one who was awful.
Pay attention around Mother's Day. All the ads, all the products, all the social media about how she gave you everything, how she's a hero, how she's done everything and would do anything for you.
Writers trying to capitalize on what some people don't have is so evil. I hope tat Simone never sees this.
79it's the worst shit. even now, well into adulthood, when I'm injured or something, I'm still supposed to rely on my mom. I don't have one of those.
I tried explaining it to a doctor once. I showed him some of the scars. just in one ear and out the other.
I feel like the reliance on 'family' is a way to dismantle any solidarity or any hint of a society, any kind of broad social support. I feel like it's a whole thing.
31Grats getting laid. You're such a hero! /s
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Here is a fun narrative I imagine when I see stuff like this.
Some poor asshole who is struggling to pay off student loans and thus has no luxury in job opportunities, sadly accepts a job as a rag company like this. Their boss, who lives in similar conditions sadly tells them that they need to write a hit piece of Simone for "corporate overlords demand a blood sacrifice" both the writer and manager hate themselves in this interaction. Then the writer finds the article from his own company about Simone Biles parents abandoning her and feels sad he has to shit on someone who life has already shit on enough. Finishes the article, goes home, gets the alert on his phone its published, logs onto his burner account to post the context on the article he himself wrote just so he can have any level of control over his life.
Sort of like a Rube Goldberg machine of this guy
54So how does the "readers added context" work? They vote for shows up?
44Someone proposes. People rate. And if enough people rate positive, and the people who rate positive have had conflicting opinions about other notes, it is approved.
30And it somehow still sort of works properly. I would've thought Musk would've put his thumb on the scale for this feature as well.
Edit: then again, I've never seen one on a Musk post, so maybe he does mess with them.
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There's a brief explanation on twitter's own website https://communitynotes.x.com/guide/en/about/introduction
Here is a very detailed writeup (with some added comments on how it uses tech also seen in crypto) https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html
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These are the people who kept pushing stories about the "Parasitic poor" with "Entire families living of Social Security" using as example the 3 families in the whole of Britain (so a handful of people out of 67 million people) were that was actually the case and portraying it as if that was common amongst poor people.
Unsurprisingly the newspaper is owned by the 4th Viscound of Rottermere, a billionaire who inherited it and last time I checked used the Non-Domiciled legislation in the UK (which is a quite unique piece of legislation in the World that lets somebody live there but claimed to be Domiciled elsewehere for tax purposes) to pay pretty much no taxes.
Fascism in the UK is not the loud goose stepping brown shirts kind, it's extremelly wealthy people with posh education from every expensive Private Schools, often with inherited titles, using the Press to spread deceitful Propaganda about out-groups such as the poor and immigrants.
(The tendency amongst the British upper class to love core elements of Fascism, especially the idea that some people are born inherently superior to others, is pretty old - there's even a picture o the late Queen Elizabeth, back when she was a girl, being taught how to do a Nazi salute by her uncle who was the King at the time).
44The "Daily Fail" living up to its tabloid name.
43Since when are Birkenstocks something that people flaunt as a symbol of wealth? There are just solid, well made shoes. I have a pair that are 6 years old and it was cheaper for me to buy them than to replace a shitty knockoff every year.
14Birkin bags, not Birkenstocks.
22Ah the old Capt Vimes boot theory.
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Why does anyone care what she does with her money? Get a life!
9You’d think she could afford a Defender instead of some poncy Chelsea tractor from all that though.
4Outrage!
1i was also going to ask if her mom even wanted any of that money lmao.
A lot of older people don't give a shit, they're already retired, and if not, they aren't likely doing it for the money anyway.
0Probably. The mom was struggling with drugs and alcohol, which is why Simone's Grandparents adopted her and her sister. The sister has spoken to the mom, but Simone doesn't want to. I don't blame her.
My point is, I'm pretty sure she's not just a cashier for the fun of it. I don't think she's close to being homeless, because the mom has the sisters number.
1yeah, shit's probably fine. But if she were a more normal person, i'm still not convinced her mom would even care that much.
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Back not even 20 years ago I swear Olympians were not making bank. They were just regular people.
-4Most of them still do. She's ridiculously successful and that gives you sponsorship money, she's basically the exception.
11There was a time when the Olympics were only open to amateurs. They changed it a while back, thus giving us the dream team.
2They still aren't unless they are peak
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OK who really cares? Are you gona start listing every celebrity with abandonment issues?
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