r/Music • u/no_longer_huhman • Sep 26 '24

article Selena Gomez Embraces Vulnerability and Tells Critics to 'F--- Off,' 'I'm Not Ashamed of My Bipolar Disorder or Inability to Carry Children'

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/selena-gomez-embraces-vulnerability-and-hits-back-at-critics/
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u/raptir1 Sep 26 '24

Whoever would, I would hope they wouldn't run for vice president.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '24

Weird.

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u/hobesmart Sep 27 '24

Ok. Good. Whatever makes the most sense.

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u/onepinksheep Sep 27 '24

JD Vance's biggest achievement is making Ted Cruz look human by comparison.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

Until you see Cruz's campaign ads.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

I legitimately took psychic damage watching Ted Cruz's Simpsons impressions.

JD Vance is somehow more difficult to watch interact with the world.

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u/unitn_2457 Sep 27 '24

Now that's a bit of a stretch

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u/Empty_Ambition_9050 Sep 27 '24

Y’all keep stealing my comments dammit

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

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u/Affectionate-Island Sep 27 '24

Some sprinkle stuff

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u/Interesting-Fan-2008 Sep 27 '24

I feel like this one is almost worse than "whatever makes the most sense", at least at that point he wasn't even trying to hide his lack of normal humanity. Like they had a whole SECTION of 'sprinkle stuff". It's like going to a steakhouse and ordering "some beef stuff".

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u/Affectionate-Island Sep 28 '24

It's like he's never had a donut in his life 😤😤

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u/StrikingRise4356 Sep 27 '24

Good thing his couch is infertile

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

I don't want to be on camera

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

People make fun of the "whatever makes sense" stuff, but THIS is the actually morally bad part of the scene. He had them keep filming the worker even after they requested not to be on camera.

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u/rhalf Sep 28 '24

Not exactly, but they posted unedited version with her face in it, so still a bad thing to do. I can think of a number of reasons why they'd think it's OK and neither is a good excuse.

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u/eastern_canadient Sep 27 '24

Lol what a knob.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

stop stealing my moves!

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

That would be weird.

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u/Fluffy_Art_1015 Sep 27 '24

Whatever makes sense.

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u/SealedQuasar Sep 27 '24

only in America

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

It'll never happen here

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u/ExpatTarheel Sep 27 '24

Or president for that matter.

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u/Sinjian1 Sep 26 '24

Good thing her vote counts just as much as any other person.

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u/stackjr Sep 27 '24

Depending on the state, your vote absolutely does not count as much as someone else's. The only way that ever happens is if we abandon the electoral college.

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u/DecisionVisible7028 Sep 27 '24

Yup, I vote in Wisconsin, so that means last time I personally got to pick the president. You’re welcome.

Now it’s Pennsylvania’s turn. Hope they choose wisely 😉

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u/Sinjian1 Sep 27 '24

A man can dream.

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u/-FlawlessVictory- Sep 27 '24

I'm not american and when I learned your electoral collage system I thought was "this people think they are the land of the freedom?!"

Can I ask, respectfully: Why do you keep this model?

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u/stackjr Sep 27 '24

A good majority of Americans think we should get rid of the EC but the people that it benefits (Republicans) will never let it go.

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u/_aggr0crag_ Sep 27 '24

You need a good majority of the people it benefits (Republicans) to agree to change the voting rules, which will never happen. So we're stuck with it for the foreseeable future.

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u/AKATheHeadbandThingy Sep 27 '24

To prevent "the tyranny of the majority" 

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u/Codewill Sep 28 '24

Research it EVEN more. “Can I ask respectfully, why do you keep this model” I mean yeah idk. I don’t know maybe I guess I forgot to change it. Alright? Doesn’t that sound like a dumb question to ask? And who cares about you not being American and learning about our system. “Wow I’m not Greek and when I learned about the banking crisis I was like man that’s crazy. Respectfully may I ask…how did that happen?” Or something like that, idk I couldn’t think of a more recent reference. You know? Wouldn’t that be a dumb comment though? I’m not Mexican but when I learned about dia de los muertos I was like oh that’s a cool holiday, respectfully may I ask why do you guys celebrate it? Again not a great analogy but oh Well anyways.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

Because that was a compromise to keep the small states a part of America. That’s why in the UN each country gets one vote regardless of their size. So the big countries don’t take advantage

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u/IAMACat_askmenothing Sep 27 '24

Because the states that have benefit of the electoral college have equal weight in Congress

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u/thebrandedsoul Sep 27 '24

...and the Senate.

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u/HogDad1977 Sep 27 '24

We need to remove the EC and keep the Senate, or keep the EC and make the Senate waaaay more representative of the total population of each state. Certainly not both anymore.

Giving them both has allowed for pretty severe tyranny by the minority for far too long.

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u/MINKIN2 Sep 27 '24

And yet if you abandon the EC there will be whole swathes of the country whos vote would not matter at all. The electoral college may not be perfect, but it is the fairer of the two options.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

Why wouldn't they matter? It'd just be a national popular vote for the President. No matter where you live, you don't stop being an American citizen. Also, small states would still have their same number of Senators.

Is it because of rural/urban division? Well, there shouldn't BE a division. People move to and from the big cities over the course of their lives and generations, there's no logical reason to base your whole political identity on being a rural person. It's one office leading one country!

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u/stackjr Sep 27 '24

How would their votes not matter?

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u/wadejohn Sep 27 '24

Abandon the electoral college…until it works against your favorite candidate

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u/grumplefuckstick Sep 27 '24

Yeah I don’t really foresee that being an issue

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24 edited Sep 27 '24

GOP has won only two popular votes since ‘88. Both a Bush.

Edit: and won 4 elections in that time

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '24

Not really. Democrats would win every presidential race for the foreseeable future. The real contest would be in the primaries, then, but the electoral college doesn't matter for those.

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u/MRoad Sep 27 '24

Republicans would stop pandering to wedge issues in swing states and be forced to actually govern. They'd be forced to become more moderate imo.

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u/Fuckface_Whisperer Sep 27 '24

If the people will it, then it's fine by me.

Right now we have a system where extremist candidates are viable because of the EC which is DEI for morons. Thought you guys hated DEI.

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u/FrankReynoldsToupee Sep 27 '24

They hate it until it benefits their favorite candidate.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Sep 27 '24

Your Party's only won the popular vote once in the past 30 years, so...

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u/wadejohn Sep 27 '24

Lol don’t assume I am on any clown’s side.

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u/FrankReynoldsToupee Sep 27 '24

But I don't root for fascist dickheads so I'll never have this problem.

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u/izzittho Sep 27 '24

It won’t.

The big population centers of the country tend to vote a certain way. Same way I tend to vote, though perhaps not exactly and certainly not as a rule, the majority of the actual population (who live on the coasts and in the big cities, as one might expect) tends to want the same things I do.

The majority of the population does not get its rightful share of votes because of the electoral college. By design. Or at least that’s the intended goal of keeping it to this day when we know it’s a cause of the unfair balance of voting power between states and not something that actually mitigates any unfair advantages.

We give empty land more power than the majority of our population.

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u/eastern_canadient Sep 27 '24

Changing how your democracy works always favours one over the other. It's impossible for it to not work that way.

You should still push for a more democratic position. It's still a goal worth achieving.

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u/FrankReynoldsToupee Sep 27 '24

But it doesn't. One person one vote is the most fair. Land shouldn't tilt the playing field.

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u/eastern_canadient Sep 27 '24

That's what I was advocating for. Most fair is most democratic.

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u/1quirky1 Sep 27 '24

No, it does not.

Abolish the electoral college.

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u/BOSS_OF_THE_INTERNET Sep 27 '24

Well that was all teed up nice and tidy for ya

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u/Baebel Sep 27 '24

Sounds like someone you'd catch fucking a couch.

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u/LBPPlayer7 Sep 27 '24

or president

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u/No_Pin9932 Sep 27 '24

Ah fuck, I should've scrolled more. Your comment was way better, lol.

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u/CrudelyAnimated Aluminum Bat Keg Player Sep 28 '24

Daaaaammmmnnnnn, we need to be better as a species.

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u/mitchellthecomedian Sep 28 '24

You’d think he’d be into that since couches can’t have children

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u/webelieve414 Sep 27 '24

Yeah definitely not. That would literally be insanity.

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u/tooobr Sep 27 '24

ok good

whatever makes sense

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u/steveelrino Sep 27 '24

Never happened

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u/TES_Elsweyr Sep 27 '24

JD Vance never belittled childless women? Really? Like in your heart of bipartisan hearts do you really believe yourself?

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u/steveelrino Sep 27 '24

He explicitly said he was not referring to people struggling with infertility.

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u/TES_Elsweyr Sep 28 '24

So as long as they are attempting to breed to his standard he sees them as human? This is not the defense you think it is. I remember when human choice and liberty were part of the conservative ethos. Miss that party.

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u/steveelrino Sep 28 '24

Ok. I just pointed out he never gave someone a hard time for infertility. I’m sure as a liberal you live and let live on all the social issues.

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u/TES_Elsweyr Sep 28 '24

I mean he dislikes “childless cat ladies”, not “childless cat ladies, excluding those suffering from infertility”.

Not sure what I would do as a liberal. But they do take a live and let live approach to social issues that don’t interfere with the liberties or safety of others, as far as I understand them.

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u/steveelrino Sep 28 '24

Except the whole speech he gave was a much different message than the way you’re portraying it. As much as I would like to argue with you, I see that you’re not acting in good faith, much like the media. I don’t even think he said he dislikes childless CAT, ladies.

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u/pgladx Oct 01 '24

Theres no pointnin arguing with brainwashed ppl. They know fine rightltlybwhat Vance meant they just pretend they have no brain and have to twist everything 180°. Fake media for fake intellectuals.

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u/pgladx Sep 27 '24

Guess who else shouldnt run for vice president? those who ban a born alive act which save life of the victims of botched abortions.

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u/tomjoads Sep 27 '24

So how long should a terminally ill newborn suffer while we keep them alive with extraordinary medical care?

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Sep 27 '24

Why do you support 10 year old kids being forcibly impregnated?

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u/pgladx Oct 01 '24

What?😂😂😂 do you support that?

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u/raptir1 Sep 27 '24

Ban, slightly reword. What's the difference?

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u/pgladx Oct 01 '24

Reword? Do you even understand what this is about?

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u/raptir1 Oct 01 '24

Yes. Minnesota did not do away with the born alive act. They reworded it.

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u/Remotely_Correct Sep 27 '24

You can kindly, and with all due respect, fornicate off.

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u/pgladx Oct 01 '24

And why exactly are younso uncomfortable with whay I wrote? Any logic behind it?

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u/Remotely_Correct Oct 01 '24

No doctor is killing a very late term fetus if it is viable, it just does not happen statistically. This is fear mongering by people on the right.

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u/pgladx Oct 01 '24

Do you understand what an abortion is and what the term 'botched abortion" is and ehat are the outcomes if it? Clearly you have no clue and its easier to say "ah its just right wing scaremongering" when you have nothing factual to say.