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Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student tracking her private jet (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's astonishing to see the blatant anti-climate change comments here. Sure it's stupid to sue, but she's just been vilified by the GOP conspiracy theorists, is probably getting thousands of death threads by the crazies, so a little security worry isn't completely unsurprising.

So hey, lets pick up this disgusting FOX news propaganda about her jet and project all the climate woes onto this women! I can't believe how well this shit worked!

How about you put the carbon costs for her jet onto the consumer: Every single climate monster going to Taylor Swifts concert is ultimately the consumer for the CO2 released by her jet. I mean there are thousands of them!

Do people even know the impact her private jet has? Presumably she's also not flying alone but with her entourage. There are also new jet designs that are much less polluting, but our economy isn't working towards that, it's just maximizing profit and greenwashing. But hey, lets shit on Taylor Swift!

If you want to argue that all music concerts are evil, then do that. Stop listening to music made by the music-industrial complex.

The last despicable thing here is that it spreads the propaganda that climate change is a problem of individual behavior. It's not. Only a plan on a global level to transform our economy could have stopped it. But guess what, we've already not done it. And we're not gonna because of propaganda like this. So congratulations.

The level of stupidity really baffles me.

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Swift has been getting crap for the overuse of her jet for a couple of years now, this isn't new. She's been found to be one of the most prolific flyers nearing if not topping the list. It's also been found that she is flying extremely frequently when she's not on tour. Last number I saw estimated near 3 times a week at the most to fly back and forth to see a boyfriend that she could have driven to.

It's fine to say that it's all for security, but she's been flaunting it for a long while and any idea that she's including members of her tour or entourage on her jet is complete speculation. At a certain point we have to accept that she doesn't actually care about the environment. Which is fine, she's a billionaire and very few of them if any really do.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the info, didn't know that. But I'd still say this is a drop in the bucket and irrelevant to the solutions we'd have to target. Meanwhile this is politically motivated to get Trump elected and divert from climate change.

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