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She was a shining example of what a human could be. A life well lived.
Tonight, I raise a glass of red to you, Dolly, and drink it for all of us still here making the best of whatever scraps we got!
I wish the flags would fly at half mast for her instead of white supremacists. In these tough times it's really hard to lose a really good one like Dolly. I'm usually not that affected by celebrity news but this one hurts really bad. RIP Dolly.
The Dolly Parton youtube rabbit hole is deep and satisfying. Every death before his is tragic, but this is worst than most. Of all the songs that will be sung that day I would've loved to have heard hers.
RIP to our Queen đź©·
What a truly powerful and talented musician with an angelic voice and a urge to soul heartedly defend LGBTQ rights.
What a country goddess.
RIP "It should've been Trump!!!!!!! (or Unknown Hinson!!!!!!)"
This woman was either a literal saint or had the best PR team the world has ever seen
Lindsay Ellis good a recent video on Nebula analyzing her career in a way that really ends up working well as a post-mortem of Dolly's career. The conclusion is that Dolly Parton was a savvy business woman with good PR and a knack to stay out of politics, but she was also kind and charitable woman who could be the better person despite decades of boob jokes.
Lindsay even uploaded it to YouTube temporarily because she wants people who can't access Nebula to have access to her breakdown on Dolly's cultural context
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In my opinion she's up there with Bob Ross, Steve Irwin and Mr. Rogers.
LeVar Burton is already on that list for me too, love that he started up Reading Rainbow again as a podcast
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People are MOURNING her? A RICH Person? NOT celebrating? HOW do we Copy this? HOW HOW HOW!
-Billionaires who will CONTINUE Destroying our Planet Education Future Goods Services and General Lives!
A billionaire never gave my kids free books. She was a millionaire and while she wasn't a socialist she didn't forget she was working class.
She wasn't a billionaire, and was pretty far back in line for the guillotine, but I'm inclined to agree. Quick search shows a net worth of around $650 million, apparently reconciling the absence of taxation with an organization that donates books to kids. So, her philanthropy still amounts to crumbs, and she still hoarded an obscene amount of wealth in the face of a staggering level of suffering induced by poverty.
She was among the best of the worst, but that doesn't make her good.
Being poor doesn't make you good. Doing meaningful things does and she did a lot of them.
What have you done?
Imagination Library, hope this keeps going!
Welp, guess what... I have a baby who receives books from this and got a letter saying due to cuts it has been cancelled for my state. Republicans have ruined everything good
"i know this one rich nice lady already paid for all of it but… fuck you"
She didn’t pay for it all…. Im not even sure where you got that idea from anyway. She doesn’t pay for the books at all. Her foundation covers the program overhead, but all the funding to actually pay for the books and postage is from smaller local organizations.
The Imagination Library is made possible through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local communities. While Dolly and the Dollywood Foundation cover many overhead costs and administration needs, the local programs secure the funding for the cost of books and postage.
We partner with a local organization/affiliate that covers the book and mailing cost for a specific geographic area. All other administrative expenses (overhead, selection of books, database, publisher negotiations, and fulfillment of the over 2 million books mailed monthly into 5 countries) are covered by Dolly and the Foundation. By having the overhead expenses covered, all of the money raised locally goes straight back into the community and allows more children to receive books each month.
I was intentionally over-exaggerating for the bit of the comedy. The important thing of what I was trying to call attention to was that republican policy is not about fiscal stewardship, it is about abject cruelty.
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Disappointing, but not surprising. Her husband of nearly 60 years died last year. Couples together that long tend not to last too well apart.
My experience has been that the year and a half mark is often when the surviving spouse dies, especially when the wife dies first.
RIP, the world will be less without you but forever more for having had you.
"but forever more for having had you" - those are such beautiful words. And they're very appropriate in describing Dolly. Thank you for sharing that.
This one hurts. Bad.
Damnit! Wrong 80 year old! Try again!
Not every 80YO has access to experimental medications and the nation's Treasury.
TBF Dolly probably could have. Dolly doesn't seem like the kind of person who'd care about that, though. And you have to remember her husband passed less than 2 years ago at 82YO.
I like to believe that their love was so strong that she just didn't want to be without him anymore. RIP to a beautiful and wonderful person, inside and out.
While I'm not a fan of country music, Dolly was a legend.
Her music was never my taste, but she was a legend of a person.
Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund eventually developed the Moderna COVID19 vaccine.
"Vaccine..vaccine...VACIIIIIINE!"
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Yeah I don’t like that style of music generally but I freaking love Dolly the person. And I can appreciate that she was very talented.
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FYI, she released an album in 2023 called Rockstar. While it still has strong country influence, it leans more heavily towards rock and pop. Maybe it will be more to your taste. Plus, practically every track features an impressive collaboration.
I keep meaning to check out her version of Freebird. There are those who say it rivals the original, and that's not really possible IMO, but I'm willing to hear it out, and always meant to.
Jesus, she did a cover of Let it Be featuring Paul McCartney and Ringo? That's wild, what a life!
Donald Trump is RIGHT FUCKING THERE! How did you miss again, Death?!
I see this sentiment shared throughout the internet.
It's not going to stop once he dies, it's naive to believe so. Sure I'll pour some scotch older than he prefers his girls but he's just a useful idiot with zero empathy and zero shame that the party in power needs as the face and voice. The clown.
The players in power will remain, they're going to need a new useful idiot, sooner rather than later.
scotch older than he prefers his girls
still arguably some scotch in need of a bit more aging, but nevermindthatrightnow
Proof there is no karma
Karma is, she is truly mourned. Imagine the party that will erupt when that other fucker drops dead.
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Death is not defeat. We're all going to die. The Sun will die, the atoms will die, the laws of physics as we know them will literally disintegrate.
Let's focus on the time we have when we are alive, and make the most of that, without trying to evade death.
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Damn not Ms Dolly. RIP to one of the few good famous people out there. Iconic and beloved by everyone.
Someone who really tried to do good in this world. She will be missed
We were talking about her last night after finding out she produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer
One of my favorite videos of her true icon https://youtu.be/Y3ardckySYY
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I love Dolly. Went to Dollywood back in April. I would hate to see her estate picked apart and monetized, but you and I both know where this leads.
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