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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 136 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Grande, 32, shared an Instagram post by podcast host and makeup artist Matt Bernstein, who asked Trump voters a pointed series of questions.

“It’s been 250 days. Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all — has your life gotten better?” Bernstein asked.

“Have your groceries gotten cheaper? Has your health insurance premium gone down?” he continued. “Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would, or are you still waiting?”

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 111 points 1 week ago

They really don't like questions or past quotes of themselves. Says a lot.

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Fascists: "Everything is better under Trump"

All other people: "Name one thing, please."

Fascists: Angry NPC face

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 88 points 1 week ago

Save your tears, Ariana, because President Trump’s actions ended Joe Biden’s inflation crisis and are bringing in trillions in new investments,

Well thank goodness for that. I can now see all Americans lives will become better as soon as they attain billionaire status.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

... and are bringing in trillions in new investments

My office had to lay off half the workers because so many clients are canceling projects or we're being viciously underbid by competing firms desperate to make a deal.

[-] Dionysus@leminal.space 16 points 1 week ago

Like his "concepts of a plan" /small hands wave an invisible accordion

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

We're all gonna be billionaires by the time Trump is done fixing inflation! /s

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, like how everyone in Zimbabwe has millions in the account.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's a good question.

[-] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

Well she is Latin. If she wasn’t a diva ice would consider taking even her. So racist…

[-] RaoulDuke@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

I thought she was Italian?

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we just have a ton of really similar words for not-quite the same thing.

Latin: with roots going back to Rome (Most Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian people). But almost nobody uses this in the USA.

Latin American/Latino/Latina: with roots in South/Central America, the Caribbean, or Mexico (notably, this includes Brazil and Haiti)

Hispanic: with roots in Spanish-speaking countries (notably, this excludes Brazil and Haiti, and includes Spain)

Ariana Grande could reasonably be called Latin, but not Latina. She just tans well so she plays the "racially ambiguous" card when it suits her.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 35 points 1 week ago

That's all ridiculous. You guys (the US) need to get past this race shit. She's a US citizen by birth and that's that.

For some reason none of you want to be just "Americans". You want to divide yourselves up into little tribes that link you back to some place you've never been.

If you yourself emigrated, sure...call yourself Italian-American. If it was your parents...you are American and your parents were Italian. If it was your grandparents, you're just American. Stop pretending.

It would also help your politics no end.

get past this race shit

You want people that are systemically disadvantaged (e.g. over policed, redlined, underrepresented, etc.) to just get over it? All colorblindness does is let people ignore that. Please find a solution with a little more room for reality, history, empathy, and complexity. Thanks.

[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Get past and get over seem like distinctly different things. Get past suggests moving through and beyond to me.

So how do you suggest people move through and beyond systemic racism?

[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I don't think I am really qualified to answer that adequately. The simple answer is people need to stop being racist and start being anti-racist, but that's a multi-generational project to transform culture and not something that can really be imposed via political will alone. The obvious answer is replace the system, but again there's the issue of this being the real world so the path to a new system is very messy and potentially involves another civil war given how re-entrenched the forces of racism have become. I'd like to think systemic reform is still possible but realistically Trumpism must be resolved first before reform could ever happen, and there's a lot of serious issues arising from wealth concentration that potentially have to be dealt with too (i.e. even without Trumpism, we still have a bunch of ultrawealthy racists wielding their money to manipulate society).

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Solutions are often simpler when they are made the someone unaffected.

[-] EldritchFeminity 1 points 1 week ago

See, here's something that people outside of America don't understand: when people immigrated to the US, they usually formed their own communities centered around the culture and traditions of their original country. This happens in other countries as well, but since most countries are like 5% immigrants at most, you just don't see it unless you're directly interacting with those communities.

The often spouted "melting pot" claim about the US has never been true - we've always been divided on a million things. It's a micro-scale version of the countries of Europe - tiny timeframe, often tiny divides, but the same squabbles as there were between the former regions that now make up the countries of Europe. Invasions, racism, regional cultural differences, etc. They're all there. In that sense, the US can be seen like the EU with a single unified language in some ways. On one end, it's like the Scottish and Irish being British due to invasion and attempted genocide (the Nazis were inspired by how the US treated the indigenous people here, after all) and on the other it's like the people of Paris and the Loire Valley arguing about who is or isn't French. But you don't have to go much further to find that you're suddenly arguing about who's French and who's Belgian.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

It's the fact that it's not a melting pot that I'm calling out. Americans need to see themselves as American first, and more importantly see each other as Americans first. All the time they separate themselves from each other, they're letting "race" matter. Stop clinging onto what your family moved away from, and embrace what they moved to.

Otherwise you'll just keep tearing at each other.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Someone can be hispanic but can they be byespanic?

[-] relativestranger@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago

she is. she's also a native-born u.s. citizen, as are both of her parents.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago

So just American then.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Does ICE care?

[-] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago

They wouldn’t be mad if it wasn’t true.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

MAGA “fumes” from reasonable question. Does MAGA ever stop fuming?

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

I wish they'd have coronaries

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago

She's a ILLEGAL DEI HIRE ~~TRANSVESTITE~~ ~~TRANSMISSION~~ ~~TRANSLATOR~~ TRANS THING!

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

How dare she ask the hard questions.

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago
[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't stand her annoying, squealy-high singing voice—nor her "I'm better than you" attitude towards dating (see the lyrics to her song Thank You, Next for a good example of what I mean)—but I'm starting to warm up to her. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago

I see you prefer women that lack confidence and don't know their own worth, or at least won't advocate for their worth. If a man wrote similar lyrics, would you have the same issue with her song? After reviewing the lyrics, they don't seem all that different than 90% of the hip-hop and pop boasting that comes from men.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

FWIW, I don't like when men brag in hip hop, either. Gender has nothing to do with it.

[-] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

The enemy of your enemy is a honourable third party.

[-] Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is that supposed to be an insult? I have accounts on several instances. This one just so happens to be the account on my phone.

I don't even know what point you're trying to make.

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Questions or not, fuming is just what this White House does.

[-] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago
[-] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Ariana probably: yuh

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Now Trump will discover that she was never talented.

[-] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

In any case, the opinion of hairdresser amplified by the repost of a diva has given POTUS a really fine burn.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

That's great and all. What are we willing to do that we haven't done, or do differently that we have done?

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