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White House fumes at Ariana Grande after she asks MAGA if their lives are better under Trump (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 136 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 110 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Fascists: "Everything is better under Trump"

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

Fascists: Angry NPC face

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 86 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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 37 points 1 month 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 14 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's a good question.

[–] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] RaoulDuke@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I thought she was Italian?

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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).

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Someone can be hispanic but can they be byespanic?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought she was Italian?

To answer your question, yes, you did. You're welcome.

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago

So just American then.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Does ICE care?

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

She's completely Caucasian. If we consider Italians Caucasian. Yes we do consider Italians Caucasian.

She's also a method actress who's been known to assume several different nationalities, each for a long duration of time. Like remember when she looked & spoke black for awhile?

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If we consider Italians Caucasian. Yes we do consider Italians Caucasian.

For now. That'll change.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I hope it does. The Caucuses are like Armenia and Azerbaijan, Italy is different mountains

[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

The only way she's Caucasian is if you're using it to mean "white", which is based in pseudoscientific racial theory. Quoting the second definition from Wiktionary:

  • (anthropology, dated) Of a racial classification pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, curly, or wavy hair and very light to brown pigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Central, South, and Western Asia.
  • Synonyms: Caucasoid, Europid

I don't tend to do linguistic prescriptivism, but I have to make an exception for things like this. Caucasian should just be used to refer to people from the Caucasus.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

I wish they'd have coronaries

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

How dare she ask the hard questions.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Ariana, my queen.

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[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Will the whining ever stop?

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Now Trump will discover that she was never talented.

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Ariana probably: yuh

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

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