Yeah, God, that's a difficult position to be put in.
Sorry man - you shouldn't have to make choices like that... if you do have to take it, I'd try to ease my concious by redirecting their money. Like, I did that when I had to work for a for-profit contract company staffing Australias social services. KPIs for welfare phone lines staffed by undertrained whoevers. They'd penalise us for taking the time to help vulnerable people. Disgusting company - left the second I could afford to. I put something aside for local mutual aids and environmental groups.
Nah - the ABC was pretty big on its twitter integration. We had a few long running, decade+ old forum-style shows where people could/would tweet in live to be part of the program.
This is a big thing for Aunty, in terms of its culture.
No argument here - I'm earnestly just scared at this point we aren't going to collectively evolve beyond our cultural fetish for greed before we turn the/our planet into an open air mausoleum.
Consider my previous comment thinly veiled grief, tbh.
Also worth noting the unnecessary and insane amount of emissions from this practice. We're in a climate crisis and they're throwing fuel into the fire with real world consequences for the sake of a legal loophole.
Dude - I'm really sorry, an escape hatch for the rich people who can pay to be onboard isn't a solution. We've been living unsustainably - this, by definition, can't be sustained. We need to change now so we can make that change as comfortable and human as possible; otherwise we're going to be stuck reactively responding to each successive disaster, or crop failure, or ecosystem collapse, or climate migration wave etc.
These people are protesting to uphold the status quo of an apartheid system - I would caution against seeing anyone in Israel (especially and pointedly in illegally occupied Palestinian lands and stolen Palestinian houses) as a moral voice.
Lots of really weird, dogmatic chest thumping in this section... can we not go down this road?
Respect and mutual community is the way we all benefit. Learn from others or leave them well alone.
I know this might shock some Americans but I'm not keen on the burgeoning possibility of seeing a christiofascist theocracy spill out onto society either. My friends are already suffering organised attacks by yeehawdists for being queer - which is the boogie man y'all (royal y'all) fear from Islam, right? Being attacked for existing?
Stop burning books and stop casting stones. We're better than this. We can talk in better dialogue than this.
Then they could refer to it as how she used it, as her stage name - it seems like he still used it as her act title because her brand was her former name.
It's like talking to a performer - when they're on stage or in the artiface of their character, you recognise that by using their stage name or their characters name; when the artiface is removed and they're not performing anymore, you recognise that by using their name.
I'm this way, we're implicitly saying we're mourning her act rather than her. If that's not the case, we should be using her name - not her stage name.
But theres a point here - what does it really matter if she does? People aren't static, we all have constant varying degrees of change in our lives and our perceptions of the world around us - I think it's worthwhile and even noble to try and find words to communicate those changes.
She said so herself, right? Like, we identify with the labels that'll help people outside ourselves understand best where we're at - sometimes we change, sometimes we find a more immediately accurate label that articulates something the last one we identified with couldn't quite reach.
Sure it's reflective work for the perceived and asks a bit more headspace to process things in that frame for the perceiver - but we're people. When we commit to being honest (for lack of a better word), we're never going to live as simple narratives for others.
...are you serious? Trump pulled them out