Jaw-dropping. It’s all fun and games to them.
One source of many: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/martha-stewart-says-deleted-homeless-000002031.html
Not sure if there’s a better place to post it. This seemed the most-relevant in light of one of the ultimate WASPy rich dicks mocking the homeless.
Oof. Not good.
Couldn’t even find an actual piece of cardboard? Had to use a clipboard?
You’d think she’d be better at crafts.
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Honestly, her stunt is what epitomises America in my eyes (and I wish it wasn’t so). So many wonderful things have come out of America, things that have made my life more liveable, such as a huge amount of wonderful music and movies.
If she cared that much about the homeless, she’d have donated a decent sum of money or perhaps even more of impact would’ve come from volunteering at a soup kitchen for a week or even two perhaps.
The clipboard is merely the icing on the gag, it’s so on the nose.
That’s odd, does anyone else hear Pulp?
Idk, I gotta go with this version.
They’re both bangers but I do prefer Shatner’s version. That whole album of his was surprisingly great.
Edit: listening to the album now for the first time in ages, prompted by your comment. It’s fantastic.
“Has Been” for anyone interested. Spotify link.
Wooow
Eat the fucking rich
if Martha wants to leave a recipe in her will, I’m sure we can respect that part.
I have HBO, it has comercials. I mute comercials, but this bitch is in one. I hate her. I shoot her between the eyes with my finger guns everytime I see her.
Fuck this rancid bitch.
Stop giving them your money.
Dude, just pirate stuff. Pirated TV doesn’t have commercials.
HBO specifically is baked into the cable package we have that is paid… ready for it, by a passed away relative’s will (I know it is goofy). So… we have it either way. I also dont have a regualr computer. I pirate on my phone sometimes though. eh
Even so, I would still pirate shit.
Paramount+ or whatever comes for free with me paying for my internet connection. I’ve never used it even once. Even if what I’m watching is available there legally and for free, I’d rather pirate it. Piracy is just a better user experience.
I recently setup IPTV and it’s like having Interdimensional Cable from Rick and Morty. Wanna know what’s on local Haitian television? You can! Wanna watch any/every PPV or ABC/NBC/FOX/CBS affiliate in the country? You can! It has it all and then some for like $50/year, I think? Between that and Stremio/Torrentio, no need for any subscriptions.
Woah, what now? What is this and how do I get it?
There’s a bunch of services that make it easy to use, streaming box and automatically updated streams so you don’t have to have any technical knowledge. They’re all technically black market and buying the subscription is often a weird process through WhatsApp, they’re very popular with international markets.
I’m only familiar with two Arabic targeted ones (but they have all the American channels as well), Spider TV and HydraTV.
I don’t use them, because 1 I don’t really watch live tv and 2 I’m not paying for something I can get for free.
As another user said, you can technically get it all for free, but I was looking for something simple I could get up-and-running on my parents’ Fire TV stick/living room TV, so I paid the $50 for a year of SacoTV: https://sacotv.com/
I’m pretty sure it’s just one guy in Eastern Europe running the thing, so you have to be willing to be a little patient and potentially exchange a couple of messages, but it has honestly been just about as reliable as normal cable. Occasionally the EPG (channel guide) loses sync, but honestly, it has taken all of the pain out of watching any live sports, and it also includes a huge on-demand library that’s nearly competitive with Stremio. And they offer a free 24-hour trial, so there’s not much to lose. I like TiviMate as the app that handles it all. You just get TiviMate installed then punch in the server/login details they provide.
There are tons of others out there, but I’m pretty sure a significant number are scams, so finding the actual provider is/was the hardest part.
Reminds me of Mievilles article “on social sadism”:
It occurred a little after the high point of the jocular pleb-sneer: two years, instead, into the eruption of the financial crisis, simultaneously with a historic peak in foreclosures. Nearly 2.9 million US properties had foreclosure actions against them initiated in 2010 – huge numbers improperly, even according to the system’s own rules – up 2 per cent from 2009, itself a record. Millions were fighting, and failing, not to lose their homes. These 2010 Halloween celebration occurred at the Buffalo, New York, law offices of Stephen J Baum, a specialist firm acting mainly for banks and lenders. It was what’s known as a ‘foreclosure mill’, the largest of its kind in the state: its expertise was evicting the poor.
This wasn’t, then, some generalised, timeless jeer. It was more specific and pointed, gleeful malice at those whose lives were, at that very moment, being ruined, directed at them by those doing the ruining.
In the photos, props embody favourite ideologemes of the rich: the booze, the misspelt signs denouncing the injustice. The homeless are drunkards; the homeless are stupid; the homeless take no responsibility. But these gestures are perfunctory; they make no attempt to convince. The anonymous former employee who leaked the images in 2011 did so aghast at what she called a ‘cavalier attitude’, but what’s on display is the opposite: not cavalier, but considered. She decried a ‘lack of compassion’, but what’s visible is a swaggering presence – of cruelty.
‘Will worke [sic]’, one sign reads, ‘for Food.’ The sign’s the prop of a comedian waiting for the laugh. The homeless are starving. We made them homeless and now they’re starving. Laugh laugh laugh laugh.
Even the dogs look embarrassed.
Pretty sure those dogs cost like $10k each too. Chow Chow and a Frenchie, I’ve heard people discussing their designer prices at Martha’s Vineyard.
Maybe [email protected] ?
I started, but personally found it didn’t fit the “mildly” part, and the rules say “not actually infuriating or enraging,” so I backed off. Likewise, it’s not exactly a political meme, etc…
tf you mean mildly?
In the grand scheme of… [gestures broadly at society/politics/economy], my scale of infuriating has been recalibrated. Martha Stewart’s bullshit is small potatoes.
I’m glad someone said it.
Why do people need to be outraged at the smallest things? I feel it just detracts from the actual things we should be outraged at.
It’s also makes it very easy to dismiss. “Oh the communists are mad about (some human rights violation) again? Of course they are, they get outraged at everything!”
To be clear, “mildly infuriated” isn’t the same thing as “not infuriated at all.” I am not not outraged at this.
I do not get identifying her as a WASP as relevant but I agree this is a ridiculous rich person take.
There’s only two people that dress like they live on the streets. The people that actually live there, and rich people who have never lived on the streets.
And trades people. When I go to the city I’m often worse dressed than the unhoused. My pants are covered in glue and my coat is worn and dirty. Once I was waiting for a bus and stirring my coffee and someone tried to put money in it.
Maybe it’s my trade, or maybe it’s me…
I mean, I don’t want to wear my good jeans to work. They actually give us outfits, but I still wear crummy clothes in to change. The building is filthy and I don’t want that on my good clothes. Also my partner wouldn’t be happy about it.
You can buy new work pants you know. My boss who lives in a 7 figure home had ragged holes in his pants. Had to scold him.
My problem is that my good pants accidentally become work pants but they still pant just fine. I draw the line at ragged holes personally. As you say, it bothers other people a lot more than it bothers me.
I’ve gotten holes in my pants the first day I wore them doing manual labor. If they’re still covering my junk and protecting the important parts, I’m still wearing them.
My friend, if I see someone dressed like they’re a painter or whatever IMO that’s way different than someone living on the street.
She could have done nothing at all and we would have all been better off for it.
Holy shit, how much of a ghoul do you have to be to think this is a good idea
Well she wasn’t able to dress up as a minority, for some reason the poors don’t like it when you put on black face. So she put on soot-face
it’s called ‘poor play’
less than the normal amount. she’s not even doing eugenics about it.
And yet, here we are all talking about her. It accomplished exactly what it was intended to.
She’s always been an entitled cunt.
