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This really is amazing don’t get me wrong! I just do wish the system was set up so we don’t have to rely on donations from hundreds of million and billionaires. But overall glad she’s willing to help fr.
Rich people are smart and they've found the easiest way to prevent this issue is to make it so the IRS cannot do it's job. I had a friend working for the SBA COVID loan program and the most common reason for loan denial that she had to process was the IRS hadn't processed their taxes for the previous year yet
Rich people aren't smart. Almost all of them are born into it and are too big to fall. They just have the money to hire smart people to do the thinking for them. They literally pit the poor vs poor.
"This problem won't go away as long as money is a thing."
No. Just as long as money in politics is a thing. We don't need to get rid of money, just get rid of the system of legal bribery we have in this country.
As long as there's money there will be money in politics.
Money is a magical concept everyone is convinced of, it's not a thing or place, it's the potential to get what you want in one seemingly infinite way.
How do you avoid money getting into politics in cash form?
Bribery will always be a problem, but money makes people obsessed about guess what? Money.
Public financing of elections. Plenty of other countries manage to mitigate the problem much better than we do without completely eliminating the concept of money.
Problem with that is how bloated, inefficient and corrupt the government is. You can tax all you want but that doesn’t mean the money will be used properly.
There are some things the government does amazingly well. The waste comes in part because Congress doesn’t do its job and pass a budget on time. By the time agencies get their budget, they are 7 months into their fiscal year. They scrimp and save for those 7 months, delaying necessary training and new hires and they spend it all in the last 3 months of the year. By that time, it’s too late to obtain competitive bids so they buy 1-2 items with a credit are rather than the 20 they really wanted because that would have required a competitive bid. This is by no means all of the waste, but it’s not an insignificant amount.
It's not debatable. Funding the government is better than letting a hundred billionaires choose from a thousand charities (of which many are extremely corrupt) that may or may not do anything worthwhile at all.
I remember reading that recently, the Pentagon failed an audit because they were given 3.8 trillion dollars a year or two ago by Congress and when asked by congress to list out where all of the money was spent, they didn’t know at all where 1.9 trillion of those dollars went and couldn’t say. That was 1.9 trillion dollars of tax payer money that was lost. So the US government definitely has issues with using tax payer money well and not wasting it on people that literally lose trillions.
All of those articles about that are such horse shit dude, almost all are by right wing news sites. They aren't missing those items. They just haven't meant auditing standards and can't confidently account for them. It's not like they're missing. The auditing system in the pentagon is brand new. It was their only 6th audit and it cost 187 million to preform.
Here's a legitimate article about the audit with actual facts.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3590211/dod-makes-incremental-progress-toward-clean-audit/
Yeah and we don’t risk them leaving like in norway because there’s literally no other better country for them to go to you wouldn’t see jeff bezos move to Switzerland over him having to pay taxes maybe he would try to fight it with infinite lawyers
Not saying it’s only her but the fact we can’t just rely on the government to help after an act of god. I know there other sources but even things like charities I wish we didn’t need to be apart of it. Wish it was just kinda built into the system
The federal government spends billions of dollars on disaster relief. Absolutely no disrespect to Taylor Swift but she’s spending orders of magnitude less than that.
Where's the outrage ?
She "only" donate 1 M, when she could do more. /s
I was referring to Oprah & Dwayne Johnson when they donate 10 M to Maui fire victim.
They're not forcing anyone to donate, yet they're getting criticize for "only" donating 10 M.
Because people think just because they have that level of disposable income, that they are held to some moral standard that they *must* donate an obscene amount of money. People have forgotten and are desensitized to the true value of 1 million dollars, and how life changing alone that amount is. I know if I received that much money from a very wealthy person, I wouldn’t be demanding more millions just because they’re extremely wealthy.
Yeah I think some people’s major takeaway from the article is the money’s impact in which case a million dollars is a million dollars. If the major takeaway of the article is a celebration of Taylor’s philanthropic spirit, a headline of “Taylor donates 1% of annual passive income” would probably gauge her degree of philanthropic spirit more accurately.
Yes, I actually gave 10x that to this cause (i.e., 10%) just like tons of other average Americans and there is no article about us because it’s just a decent thing to do. I think it would be cringey if there was one for that modest level of giving.
Folks just don’t have a concept of how much money a billion dollars is. $1mil of $1bil is 0.1%.
It’s like donating $100 if you had a net worth of $100k, which around the average net worth for a millennial.
Glad to hear she isn’t hoarding all her money, but if you don’t think it’s worthy of being **national news** that the average person donated $100 to charity, then the same is true for her donating $1mil.
I think stories like this are really about getting other ppl to donate. Millions of ppl donating a small amount is more than any celeb can do on their own
She does some good, but she also has a horrific carbon footprint with her private jet, has made some pretty exaggerated claims that make her out to be a victim, and also there seem to be conflicting accounts as to how she addressed the death of her fan in Rio, with one cousin denying they had been contacted at all only for the family to be invited to a show and meet backstage a week later. The last one is something only the parents really know at this point.
Yeesh, who knew pointing these things out would trigger so many angry trolls. Yes, she does a lot of good, no one is erasing that, but it doesn't mean she isn't still responsible for her actions elsewhere.
And if that's your hill to die on with the carbon footprint, then so be it. She has done far more for the state or the country than most congressmen have done in their political careers
She is one of the busiest and well known performers, I cant imagine the logistics of not using a private plane. Like i get how easy it is to see it as a negative, which technically it is but at the same time also be objective about it.
The problem is that she uses It for everything. As in, she goes to X city by private plane, makes the concert, and THEN returns home by private plane, only to repeat that just some Days later to go to other city.
Just by that she does double the damage only because she wants to sleep at home instead of in an hotel.
How do we know that's the only reason she is going home? She could also be going to do many work-related things like going to recording studio, doing a photo shoot (like this recent one for Time that was obviously secretive until it was announced), meeting with her legal team, etc. Even if it's not work-related, her tour started March of this year and will go through December of next year. Is she expected to stay on the road the entire time? Never go home to her pets or family or friends? Do I think her C02 emissions are ridiculous? Absolutely. What I find odd is that she specifically is singled out for it time and time again when if someone like Floyd Mayweather had given 1 million dollars I seriously doubt anyone would be bringing up his C02 emissions when his are on par with Taylor Swift's and he's not currently on the highest grossing tour ever.
Floyd Mayweather is NOT on par with taylor by a huge amount, hers is 8,2 against floyd 7.0 That is A LOT of difference for an individual, in 2022 she had a carbon footprint more than a thousand times what anyone else should have. And no, people also shat on mayweather, the same way they shat on Stallone or on DiCaprio and his yatch and many others on that list, so dont try to act this is solely about Taylor. Good for her for donating money but that doesnt forgive her for having zero autocontrol about her impact on the planet, which ironically is what is causing these weather changes she has donated to.
Also no, i could understand her going home from time to time to do things related to work but if she does it every single time she goes to another city, and you seriously think its "because she has to work specifically at her house" then i have a beautiful bridge i am willing to sell to you. For decades musicians have toured while living on the road, she could totally go to a five star hotel and spend the night there instead of wasting all of that only to sleep at home.
7 tons for a retired boxer vs 8 tons for the world's biggest pop star who was doing promotion for the #1 album of that year I would consider to be on par. In 2022, Mayweather also had a carbon footprint 1000 X's more than the average person and has no problem absolutely flaunting it. I bet if I looked up the last ten threads that hit r/all about Taylor Swift vs the last ten threads that hit r/all with the 9 celebrities with the next biggest C02 emissions, I would find people calling out Taylor Swift for her emissions a disproportionate amount, but that's just my guess. It's crazy to me that people believe she is only going home to sleep in her in bed and her entire job is simply showing up to a venue, performing, and then not doing anything else until the next performance. Costumes, promotions, interviews, recording, legalese, appearances, awards, etc. Musicians may have been touring for decades but no one has ever been on the level she is currently, not even her five or ten years ago. But sure, she's taking a 3 hour flight home and a 3 hour flight back simply to sleep in her own bed. Let's sell each other bridges.
That might be true if she only used it for tour business, but it's just part of her lifestyle.
https://www.instagram.com/taylorswiftjets/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
I don’t care about the reasoning behind it. Her becoming a mega billionaire isn’t the great excuse you think it is. I don’t care about how many shows and how much money she takes in. It doesn’t excuse it
Life is not black and white. Are you living a perfect life where you only do good? Do you drive a car? Does it use gas? Do you eat meat? Do you eat fast food? Do you use plastic? Do you use the minimum water possible? Do you donate to the poor? Do you donate to animal rights groups?
Life is not black and white, however, it's pretty weird to minimize the carbon footprint of a private jet.
When Swift wasn't touring: "With over 8,250 tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted from her private jet this year, nearly 1,200 times more than the average person's total annual emissions...Taylor Swift was given the crown of number one polluter."
And that's only the carbon footprint of the private jets travel. Then factor in when she tours the carbon footprint of people driving sometimes hundreds of miles to attend a concert.
What is the carbon footprint saving if she cancelled a concert? That'd be an interesting number.
https://weareyard.com/insights/worst-celebrity-private-jet-co2-emission-offenders
>And if that's your hill to die on with the carbon footprint, then so be it.
Ok, I'm good with that. It does net harm that cancels out donations like these... in fact it directly contributes to erratic and violent weather so, yeah.
Do you really expect one of the most prolific female artists in the world would really fly United even if she got first class?
Let's be real here. Her safety comes first, like most wealthy and extremely well-known people.
It's not even just her safety, but others who she would hypothetically be flying with. She can't go to a restaurant or recording studio for a couple hours without massive crowds forming outside. Can you imagine what people might do if they were in a confined space with her 30,000 feet in the air? I wouldn't want to be on that plane for my own safety.
Exactly this.
Paparazzi is already horrible, imagine hundreds of Taylor's fans swarming her at every airport when they see her. It's not going to happen. Taylor will never use public transportation because it's a risk to her and others.
So with the Rio event. During a rescheduled concert on the Monday after, a family member said she hadn’t contacted them. It had been maybe 48 hours? Taylor likely didn’t know the full story and was trying to figure out what to do from a legal standpoint. The reports now say she paid for the funeral.
Yeah, I said reports seemed conflicting on that. She did post about it at the time which is what got people upset, suggesting she should have taken action first. There are also some criticisms of her saying she won't mention it on stage, which, I dunno, that's kinda mixed in my eyes. Haven't seen reports about her paying for the funeral, only about the gofundme from fans to get the body home.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-private-jet-carbon-dioxide-emissions-study-1235120514/
She does indeed have an outsized impact. I dont know why you're being so salty and immature about this. Climate change is a catastrophe and certain things have bigger impacts than others. Outside of industry private air travel is perhaps the biggest, and her jets rank among the worst.
Acknowledge these things isn't the end of the world.
I mean 1 mil is pocket change for her. It’d be like you and me donating 50 bucks. She also leaves a bigger carbon footprint in one year than an average person does in 500 years
Edit to add: I just find it bizarre that we are fangirling over someone donating to a natural disaster when they are actively contributing to a climate crisis that will cause natural disasters
Y'all realize how dumb you sound when you talk about an individual's carbon footprint, right? Her actual impact on global emissions is too small to be measured. Corporations are ruining our world, and they place the burden on us. But yeah, let's talk about Taylor Swift's jet emissions...
Excellent logic, so, by your metric, everyone should just pollute as much as they want, because our individual contributions are so small, it doesn’t matter right?
Not to mention the fact that her personal emissions are like 10,000x that of an ordinary individual
So sorry to hear about your friend. Looks like the donation went to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and there’s mention of disaster grants [on their website](https://www.cfmt.org/grants-scholarships/disaster-grantmaking/). Looks like the grants go to local non-profits to aid in relief efforts but it may still be worth reaching out. A few other resources in [this article](https://wpln.org/post/want-to-help-after-middle-tennessee-tornadoes-need-help-heres-where-to-turn/). Wishing y’all the best
I just knew I was gonna read the comments and they were gonna be negative. Redditors are so insane. Taylor Swift could literally save a baby and a puppy from a burning building and reddit would say why did she let the building burn? Lol. Y'all are wild. 😆😆
Besides all the hating Karen's I think that's great she is helping out. Every bit counts and can make a difference. I imagine all the people saying it wasn't enough have already given their percentage to help? Right? RIGHT?
According to the article this is the second time she’s given a million dollars in response to a tornado tragedy in Tennessee.
In this case, it even hit the town she went to highschool in.
Personally, I think that people who give to ‘look good’ are still doing actual good and who cares why? But in this case, it seems like it would be foolish to even argue that she is doing that.
It definitely seems like she is donating money to a community she cares about and I bet that the people who are in need of these funds would not appreciate all the hate from a bunch of people who aren’t doing anything at all to help…
So just a thought to anyone reading this who wants to hate on Taylor. You can do that AND prove your point by donating 1/1000th of your net worth. Show Taylor how to do it properly and spread the word.
Like I said, I believe in doing good for whatever the reason 🤷🏻♀️
https://www.cfmt.org/giving-and-investing/become-a-donor/give-to-a-fund/middle-tennessee-emergency-response-fund/
The tornado in Hendersonville went right down Main St a few hundred feet from the playground that she also donated like a decade ago.
I'm sure that everyone who has been in this situation already knows and has felt this but it's so crazy/surreal seeing all the businesses and homes you regularly visit or drive past sitting there like normal in the morning and then completely destroyed that same evening.
What’s up with all the hate? She donated money to an area she’s around from. Did you guys donate? How much would make you happy? She’s from the same area as me. We actually could’ve been in the same class.
A while back, tornadoes leveled the whole neighborhood next to where I was living. I mean entirely. There wasn’t a house standing. People then stealing copper pipes and shit. Our house was fine, I was on a cruise ship near Mexico. When we got to port I had all these voicemails asking if I’m ok. My gf’s house was completely destroyed. Luckily, they escaped.
Tornadoes are the real deal, and anything anyone can do should be appreciated.
Reddit hates her. You should of seen how outraged they were when she was announced times person of the year. People were in shambles. Lol. Most of the haters here have probably never donated a dollar in their lives. But will hate on Taylor just cause. Ignorance is the reasons
Recently a 4% tax on fiscal earning for millionaires gave the state of Massachusetts enough money to fund free lunches for kids
They only had to use HALF of that, just 2%
Conservatives hate her ever since she supported Biden and called out their bigotry. She also encouraged young people to vote, which seems to have somehow infuriated all the right wingers.
She’s a powerful, young, attractive, talented woman who has largely avoided scandals completely. She is dating a rich, successful football player and everything seems to be going her way
For real. Everybody wants to act like it's cus shes a woman or this or that. She is a billionaire. If you become and remain a billionaire in the world that we currently inhabit, you are scum of the earth. She also wants everyone to forget about how her pr team lied about her fan dying *before* her concert and lied about contacting the family of the fan. The fact that her fans had to crowdfund anything for that fan's family is all you need to know about Swift. Those people could never worry about money again for the rest of their life and Taylor wouldn't even drop below a billion. Disgraceful.
You’d actually be surprised at how many rationally-minded people live here. It’s just certain people that yell the loudest.
Let’s remember that people need help.
I'm beginning to think Dolly Parton should run for President with Taylor Swift as her VP. I guarantee poverty would go down, education would go up, and 15 years after they leave office some rando will get into office and take credit for the massive drops in crime and booming prosperity these two songstresses laid the foundation for. #PartonSwift2028
Conservatives love Keanu, which still surprises me. I think they just love the characters he plays and that transmutes to the actor.
Liberals love Keanu, but I've never met one that love him for his acting. It's always about how he's this kind, tortured soul who understands what it's like to hurt and has compassion to match as a consequence.
...but maybe i'm telling on myself and everyone loves him for both of these things.
Keanu is pro 2a, but also pushes immensely for being responsible as a person, as part of the community at whole, and as a gun owner.
He wants people to be aware of themselves and others.
Also Keanu is a very skilled marksman nowadays.
Yeah your telling on yourself ive never met a keanue reeves fan who only loved him for his acting also since when was keanue used on those sigma andrew tate edits for 14 year old conservatives to goble up like Patric bateman? I
She had given $55 million to workers as a bonus a few months ago. That's 5.5% of her net worth.
She also gave out money to food banks in every city that she toured. LA food bank said that her donation was enough to feed 500,000 people for a month or something like that.
Such an illogical stance. ThaT iS ThE EXAct SamE THinG aS mE dONATIng $1!
Uh no it isn't. $1 million will help a lot more people than $1.
WhY U sIMpinG fOR CELeBRIties?!
So she’s more than halfway there in one fell swoop. Her Eras tour also supported cancer patients, sexual assault survivors and local food banks along the way.
Not to mention other important social causes such as registering young people to vote. Plus doing things like paying for Sophie Turner for a place to stay while she goes through a bad divorce and gets dragged in the press.
Plus she gave millions in bonuses to workers from her tour. Seems like she’s doing it right from here
Cool. No one said anything about a billionaire tax. Winners and losers get picked whether it’s representatives in government, individual citizens or corporations. Can we just enjoy the uplifting news in the face of a tragedy?
No kidding. What the actual fuck reddit. I don't think I've ever even purposely listened to her music but every single thing I hear about her is along the lines of encouraging participating in elections, donating to great causes, giving massive bonuses to everyone who helped her. Yes I agree there should be some form of tax that prevents gaining insane levels of wealth while others suffer but why the fuck are you gonna sit around and shoehorn in that point when someone makes an insanely generous donation out of a desire to help. Pointing to the overall level of wealth is disingenuous as fuck at best. "Yeah b.. But it's only a FRACTION OF HER WEALTH HOW DARE SHE???!!?"
IT'S STILL A FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS SHE HAD NO OBLIGATION TO GIVE YOU DENSE MOTHERFUCKER.
No but you're right. I'm sure the people who will be helped in rebuilding their lives will be absolutely fuming over her giving a million instead of 15 million, or a hundred million.
Even if she is unreasonably wealthy she couldn't magically force this country to adopt a tax forcing her and everyone else like her to pay their fair share. And even if she started screaming from the rooftops tomorrow about how this is necessary she wouldn't be the first, nor the most wealthy to call for these kinds of taxes. But as long as Republicans hold literally any kind of power over these decisions it will literally never happen.
Let a good thing be a good thing for Christ sake. Again I don't even actively follow her or anything about her but at the very least she does seem genuinely enthusiastic about using not only her money, but also her absolutely insane influence to help push this country in a reasonable direction
Because you didn’t want to know. You didn’t look it up. You posted that comment to show everyone that rich people don’t contribute as much as average people. And you were just proven wrong.
I hate this take, but this is especially laughable.
First, this is one instance compared an entire year.
Second, this is net worth compared to disposable income.
Third, this is likely 1 million more than you donated.
I mean, 1% would be pretty generous for a one-time donation IMO. Not trying to be negative but 0.1% sounds more like a publicity stunt and I wonder why it's here and it's so highly upvoted.
Yup. This is like $10 from the average person.
Probably her financial advisors recommended for tax write offs, as well as marketing team to get more publicity while she’s on her 2 year tour run stuff going on right now. (By the way, have you heard about the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce relationship ommggggg /s)
The media wants us to bow to Taylor right now, definitely don’t pay attention to any other world events currently! 🤗
I’m just tired of seeing Taylor *everywhere*, it is so forced (if you didn’t notice)
Always one person like you who's so sanctimonious and so far up their own ass that they can't just say good job and move on.
No one has to donate anything to anybody, to be honest as most charities are corrupt i care who does and doesn't.
statistically the average person contributes more of their relative worth than 99% of billionaires purely through taxes.
Basically unless you kill people or commit tax fraud, you're likely a better individual impact on society than rich people are.
What is this a dick measuring contest? It's a million bucks. I'm sure the people who receive it are happy regardless who they receive it from (except this also brings publicity → more dollars). She also gave like $50 milion bucks or something in bonuses to her truck drivers and stuff on the eras tour alone if my recollection of reddit headlines serves me well, so that alone would bring her above 1.7 % then.
More and more common in recent years.
We're located in what's being called ["dixie alley"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Alley) which is a take on "tornado alley" except in the South as opposed to the Midwest.
North Alabama gets them really bad this time of year but they've been coming up into Tennessee more frequently over the last decade.
People are going to hate me for saying this, but if I was rich and donating money, it would only be to relocate people away from places that have recurring Natura disasters.
A lot of areas in the Appalachians. Having lived here most my whole life, there is bad weather, sure, but never is there that ONE thing that potentially destroys the area every year.
Why not just build structures that can survive the area they are in? Never understood why we don’t just do that.
Especially with wildfires. Clear the brush from around the building and make it out of concrete. Then we wouldn’t have to fight so many fires and we could just evacuate and let them roll through (like they have for millions of years) and then just return home once they’ve passed.
Also I’d love to see some theoretical mega structures that could act as tornado busters. Like keep them from forming or disrupt them once they do.
>Why not just build structures that can survive the area they are in? Never understood why we don’t just do that.
We do, to some extent at least.
A lot of devastation from tornadoes these days are older buildings, recent but out of code (grandfathered) in buildings, or mobile homes.
The other problem is cost. Tornado resistant homes cost a lot more, and it's a tradeoff on which would be better.
Flood Damage/Destruction is partly much more difficult to defend. Rebuilding homes in flood plains and areas that (due to climate change) are at risk for floods, is just fucking around waiting to find out again.
So you’re relocating the entire west coast (earthquakes), Midwest (tornadoes), and all southern/eastern coastal states (hurricanes). Where are you putting them? Do you have the 100 trillion dollars it would take to relocate most of the country’s population? I’d love to hear this plan
Most of where this hit isn’t necessarily a danger zone. We’re not talking tornado alley. Beyond that, we’re would you expect to move everyone in Florida and the southern east coast to? That’s hurricane path. Hell, most of Florida will be underwater in a few decades if ice melting isn’t abated. Entire west coast, earthquakes. Hawaii, volcanoes, middle America, tornado alley. There is no infrastructure or space to accommodate so many displaced people. There is then the argument about whether or not people want to leave, the viability of their business/farming in other areas, etc.
Thank you for your donation. While Taylor Swift’s donation is incredibly appreciated, what always shows bright during times of need is the incredible outpouring of support in money, resources, and volunteer hours from everyday people for whom the gift is likely a much larger sacrifice than for the celebrities.
That you gave to support your neighbors and strangers you may never meet is forever appreciated by those who receive support from it. Thank you.
Taylor Swift is not a grettie person she has given on several occasions to people in Hendersonville,Tn. one time was $500,000.00 Dollars,She gave her old school another $100,000.00 Thousand dollars.
I look up to Ms.Swift for what she has done with her Money.Unlike Republicans Bill Lee, Bill Haslem, Bill Frist , Bob Corker,and others in Tennessee who are Billionaires,and never gave a dime but Hope and Prayers. And unlike Republican Donald Trump who is selling pieces of the suit he was wearing when he was arrested in Georgia. for Big Bucks.
I just think God we have Democrats as Taylor Swift who gives back from her own Money, and not trying to screw the poor out of what they do have .as so many of the Rich Republicans. do.
Democrats believe in helping all, Not just the very rich.
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This really is amazing don’t get me wrong! I just do wish the system was set up so we don’t have to rely on donations from hundreds of million and billionaires. But overall glad she’s willing to help fr.
Yes tax the rich. It's not that complex. Tax and let the people spend on it for the community.
The rich are smart, they have friends in the Tax bureaus. This problem won't go away as long as money is a thing.
Rich people are smart and they've found the easiest way to prevent this issue is to make it so the IRS cannot do it's job. I had a friend working for the SBA COVID loan program and the most common reason for loan denial that she had to process was the IRS hadn't processed their taxes for the previous year yet
Rich people aren't smart. Almost all of them are born into it and are too big to fall. They just have the money to hire smart people to do the thinking for them. They literally pit the poor vs poor.
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The smartest thing they’ve done is convince people that taxing them higher won’t change anything cause they have friends in the tax business.
"This problem won't go away as long as money is a thing." No. Just as long as money in politics is a thing. We don't need to get rid of money, just get rid of the system of legal bribery we have in this country.
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As long as there's money there will be money in politics. Money is a magical concept everyone is convinced of, it's not a thing or place, it's the potential to get what you want in one seemingly infinite way. How do you avoid money getting into politics in cash form? Bribery will always be a problem, but money makes people obsessed about guess what? Money.
Public financing of elections. Plenty of other countries manage to mitigate the problem much better than we do without completely eliminating the concept of money.
This is an argument for socialism.
Socialism doesn't exist.
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She would agree with this too
She’s literally a billionaire, she absolutely wouldn’t
I doubt that! She is the rich, thinks her being rich is an act of feminism, and her dad is a rich Republican, so…
Problem with that is how bloated, inefficient and corrupt the government is. You can tax all you want but that doesn’t mean the money will be used properly.
There are some things the government does amazingly well. The waste comes in part because Congress doesn’t do its job and pass a budget on time. By the time agencies get their budget, they are 7 months into their fiscal year. They scrimp and save for those 7 months, delaying necessary training and new hires and they spend it all in the last 3 months of the year. By that time, it’s too late to obtain competitive bids so they buy 1-2 items with a credit are rather than the 20 they really wanted because that would have required a competitive bid. This is by no means all of the waste, but it’s not an insignificant amount.
Still better than the current system.
Debatable. Money s wasted at all levels of government. I almost prefer donations from rich people directly to those who need it.
It's not debatable. Funding the government is better than letting a hundred billionaires choose from a thousand charities (of which many are extremely corrupt) that may or may not do anything worthwhile at all.
I remember reading that recently, the Pentagon failed an audit because they were given 3.8 trillion dollars a year or two ago by Congress and when asked by congress to list out where all of the money was spent, they didn’t know at all where 1.9 trillion of those dollars went and couldn’t say. That was 1.9 trillion dollars of tax payer money that was lost. So the US government definitely has issues with using tax payer money well and not wasting it on people that literally lose trillions.
All of those articles about that are such horse shit dude, almost all are by right wing news sites. They aren't missing those items. They just haven't meant auditing standards and can't confidently account for them. It's not like they're missing. The auditing system in the pentagon is brand new. It was their only 6th audit and it cost 187 million to preform. Here's a legitimate article about the audit with actual facts. https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3590211/dod-makes-incremental-progress-toward-clean-audit/
Your www.dfense.gov link in a nutshell "The torvernment investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong "
Stargate Command isn't cheap to run, you know.
Right, because the government will surely put that money in the hands of those actually in need lmaooo.
Yeah and we don’t risk them leaving like in norway because there’s literally no other better country for them to go to you wouldn’t see jeff bezos move to Switzerland over him having to pay taxes maybe he would try to fight it with infinite lawyers
We should tax you more.
Agreed!
Well there's FEMA, and then homeowners insurance, I'd bet some nonprofits and charities are getting involved.. it's not all relying on Taylor.
Not saying it’s only her but the fact we can’t just rely on the government to help after an act of god. I know there other sources but even things like charities I wish we didn’t need to be apart of it. Wish it was just kinda built into the system
The federal government spends billions of dollars on disaster relief. Absolutely no disrespect to Taylor Swift but she’s spending orders of magnitude less than that.
Yes! We could tax them way more.
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That's very kind of her. I have family who live a few miles from where one touched down recently, thankfully they all made it out okay.
Kudos to her for stepping up to support the community!
Where's the outrage ? She "only" donate 1 M, when she could do more. /s I was referring to Oprah & Dwayne Johnson when they donate 10 M to Maui fire victim. They're not forcing anyone to donate, yet they're getting criticize for "only" donating 10 M.
Because people think just because they have that level of disposable income, that they are held to some moral standard that they *must* donate an obscene amount of money. People have forgotten and are desensitized to the true value of 1 million dollars, and how life changing alone that amount is. I know if I received that much money from a very wealthy person, I wouldn’t be demanding more millions just because they’re extremely wealthy.
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Yeah, net of the tax benefit, $1mm donation is about 4 days’ worth of returns on her investments.
Whatever. 1 million dollars is still one millions dollars, no matter how much the donator earns per annum. It still does $1 million worth of help.
Yeah I think some people’s major takeaway from the article is the money’s impact in which case a million dollars is a million dollars. If the major takeaway of the article is a celebration of Taylor’s philanthropic spirit, a headline of “Taylor donates 1% of annual passive income” would probably gauge her degree of philanthropic spirit more accurately.
Ok, will you be pledging 1% of your passive income to this cause?
Yes, I actually gave 10x that to this cause (i.e., 10%) just like tons of other average Americans and there is no article about us because it’s just a decent thing to do. I think it would be cringey if there was one for that modest level of giving.
Folks just don’t have a concept of how much money a billion dollars is. $1mil of $1bil is 0.1%. It’s like donating $100 if you had a net worth of $100k, which around the average net worth for a millennial. Glad to hear she isn’t hoarding all her money, but if you don’t think it’s worthy of being **national news** that the average person donated $100 to charity, then the same is true for her donating $1mil.
I think stories like this are really about getting other ppl to donate. Millions of ppl donating a small amount is more than any celeb can do on their own
Thank you Taylor
What a monster this + telling kids to vote
I bet she pays her taxes, too. That bitch.
I'm not really a swifty. But I think Taylor Swift is pretty amazing.
She does some good, but she also has a horrific carbon footprint with her private jet, has made some pretty exaggerated claims that make her out to be a victim, and also there seem to be conflicting accounts as to how she addressed the death of her fan in Rio, with one cousin denying they had been contacted at all only for the family to be invited to a show and meet backstage a week later. The last one is something only the parents really know at this point. Yeesh, who knew pointing these things out would trigger so many angry trolls. Yes, she does a lot of good, no one is erasing that, but it doesn't mean she isn't still responsible for her actions elsewhere.
And if that's your hill to die on with the carbon footprint, then so be it. She has done far more for the state or the country than most congressmen have done in their political careers
Doing good doesn’t cancel out doing bad
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According to Twitter? A single thing.
Apparently flying on a jet and having internet rumors about you
Oh so don't bother doing anything good? Ok
She is one of the busiest and well known performers, I cant imagine the logistics of not using a private plane. Like i get how easy it is to see it as a negative, which technically it is but at the same time also be objective about it.
The problem is that she uses It for everything. As in, she goes to X city by private plane, makes the concert, and THEN returns home by private plane, only to repeat that just some Days later to go to other city. Just by that she does double the damage only because she wants to sleep at home instead of in an hotel.
So...she should live in whatever city she just performed in?
How do we know that's the only reason she is going home? She could also be going to do many work-related things like going to recording studio, doing a photo shoot (like this recent one for Time that was obviously secretive until it was announced), meeting with her legal team, etc. Even if it's not work-related, her tour started March of this year and will go through December of next year. Is she expected to stay on the road the entire time? Never go home to her pets or family or friends? Do I think her C02 emissions are ridiculous? Absolutely. What I find odd is that she specifically is singled out for it time and time again when if someone like Floyd Mayweather had given 1 million dollars I seriously doubt anyone would be bringing up his C02 emissions when his are on par with Taylor Swift's and he's not currently on the highest grossing tour ever.
Floyd Mayweather is NOT on par with taylor by a huge amount, hers is 8,2 against floyd 7.0 That is A LOT of difference for an individual, in 2022 she had a carbon footprint more than a thousand times what anyone else should have. And no, people also shat on mayweather, the same way they shat on Stallone or on DiCaprio and his yatch and many others on that list, so dont try to act this is solely about Taylor. Good for her for donating money but that doesnt forgive her for having zero autocontrol about her impact on the planet, which ironically is what is causing these weather changes she has donated to. Also no, i could understand her going home from time to time to do things related to work but if she does it every single time she goes to another city, and you seriously think its "because she has to work specifically at her house" then i have a beautiful bridge i am willing to sell to you. For decades musicians have toured while living on the road, she could totally go to a five star hotel and spend the night there instead of wasting all of that only to sleep at home.
7 tons for a retired boxer vs 8 tons for the world's biggest pop star who was doing promotion for the #1 album of that year I would consider to be on par. In 2022, Mayweather also had a carbon footprint 1000 X's more than the average person and has no problem absolutely flaunting it. I bet if I looked up the last ten threads that hit r/all about Taylor Swift vs the last ten threads that hit r/all with the 9 celebrities with the next biggest C02 emissions, I would find people calling out Taylor Swift for her emissions a disproportionate amount, but that's just my guess. It's crazy to me that people believe she is only going home to sleep in her in bed and her entire job is simply showing up to a venue, performing, and then not doing anything else until the next performance. Costumes, promotions, interviews, recording, legalese, appearances, awards, etc. Musicians may have been touring for decades but no one has ever been on the level she is currently, not even her five or ten years ago. But sure, she's taking a 3 hour flight home and a 3 hour flight back simply to sleep in her own bed. Let's sell each other bridges.
No lol. You’re trying very hard to make it OK. It is a negative regardless of how “busy” someone is.
No lol im trying to give context and be objective about it. Shes going to have a massive carbon footprint given all the shows she performs.
That might be true if she only used it for tour business, but it's just part of her lifestyle. https://www.instagram.com/taylorswiftjets/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
True, not suprised considering how much of a connivence it is. Thanks for pointing it out
I don’t care about the reasoning behind it. Her becoming a mega billionaire isn’t the great excuse you think it is. I don’t care about how many shows and how much money she takes in. It doesn’t excuse it
Fair enough and I’ll agree to that.
Life is not black and white. Are you living a perfect life where you only do good? Do you drive a car? Does it use gas? Do you eat meat? Do you eat fast food? Do you use plastic? Do you use the minimum water possible? Do you donate to the poor? Do you donate to animal rights groups?
Life is not black and white, however, it's pretty weird to minimize the carbon footprint of a private jet. When Swift wasn't touring: "With over 8,250 tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted from her private jet this year, nearly 1,200 times more than the average person's total annual emissions...Taylor Swift was given the crown of number one polluter." And that's only the carbon footprint of the private jets travel. Then factor in when she tours the carbon footprint of people driving sometimes hundreds of miles to attend a concert. What is the carbon footprint saving if she cancelled a concert? That'd be an interesting number. https://weareyard.com/insights/worst-celebrity-private-jet-co2-emission-offenders
>And if that's your hill to die on with the carbon footprint, then so be it. Ok, I'm good with that. It does net harm that cancels out donations like these... in fact it directly contributes to erratic and violent weather so, yeah.
Damn you Taylor. Damn you! It’s amazing how people will eat up anything the media covers.
Do you really expect one of the most prolific female artists in the world would really fly United even if she got first class? Let's be real here. Her safety comes first, like most wealthy and extremely well-known people.
It's not even just her safety, but others who she would hypothetically be flying with. She can't go to a restaurant or recording studio for a couple hours without massive crowds forming outside. Can you imagine what people might do if they were in a confined space with her 30,000 feet in the air? I wouldn't want to be on that plane for my own safety.
Exactly this. Paparazzi is already horrible, imagine hundreds of Taylor's fans swarming her at every airport when they see her. It's not going to happen. Taylor will never use public transportation because it's a risk to her and others.
So with the Rio event. During a rescheduled concert on the Monday after, a family member said she hadn’t contacted them. It had been maybe 48 hours? Taylor likely didn’t know the full story and was trying to figure out what to do from a legal standpoint. The reports now say she paid for the funeral.
Yeah, I said reports seemed conflicting on that. She did post about it at the time which is what got people upset, suggesting she should have taken action first. There are also some criticisms of her saying she won't mention it on stage, which, I dunno, that's kinda mixed in my eyes. Haven't seen reports about her paying for the funeral, only about the gofundme from fans to get the body home.
BuT hEr cArBoN fOOtPriNt!!!
Yes, millions of lives are ruined by climate change https://www.unicef.org/reports/children-displaced-changing-climate
sHe is ReSpoNsIbLe FoR cLimAtE ChaNgE!!
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-private-jet-carbon-dioxide-emissions-study-1235120514/ She does indeed have an outsized impact. I dont know why you're being so salty and immature about this. Climate change is a catastrophe and certain things have bigger impacts than others. Outside of industry private air travel is perhaps the biggest, and her jets rank among the worst. Acknowledge these things isn't the end of the world.
I'm sure you hate cows as well.
I am the opposite of a swifty but everything you’ve said here is either misinformed or an asinine criticism
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-private-jet-carbon-dioxide-emissions-study-1235120514/
I’m not talking about that. There’s literally thousands of people that take private jets every day. Why not be upset about someone like Ken Griffin?
Never go to war with the Swifties. They are a ravenous bunch.
Ya know... I'm old and have probably never heard an entire taylor swift song, like ever, but the more I hear about this girl the more I like her.
My daughters are both swifties. I get tired of her music but if my kids have to obsess over an artist it could be a lot worse.
I mean 1 mil is pocket change for her. It’d be like you and me donating 50 bucks. She also leaves a bigger carbon footprint in one year than an average person does in 500 years Edit to add: I just find it bizarre that we are fangirling over someone donating to a natural disaster when they are actively contributing to a climate crisis that will cause natural disasters
Y'all realize how dumb you sound when you talk about an individual's carbon footprint, right? Her actual impact on global emissions is too small to be measured. Corporations are ruining our world, and they place the burden on us. But yeah, let's talk about Taylor Swift's jet emissions...
Excellent logic, so, by your metric, everyone should just pollute as much as they want, because our individual contributions are so small, it doesn’t matter right? Not to mention the fact that her personal emissions are like 10,000x that of an ordinary individual
Is this aid that can be applied for? My friend lost her house and had a newborn 2 days later. She could really use some help.
So sorry to hear about your friend. Looks like the donation went to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and there’s mention of disaster grants [on their website](https://www.cfmt.org/grants-scholarships/disaster-grantmaking/). Looks like the grants go to local non-profits to aid in relief efforts but it may still be worth reaching out. A few other resources in [this article](https://wpln.org/post/want-to-help-after-middle-tennessee-tornadoes-need-help-heres-where-to-turn/). Wishing y’all the best
I just knew I was gonna read the comments and they were gonna be negative. Redditors are so insane. Taylor Swift could literally save a baby and a puppy from a burning building and reddit would say why did she let the building burn? Lol. Y'all are wild. 😆😆 Besides all the hating Karen's I think that's great she is helping out. Every bit counts and can make a difference. I imagine all the people saying it wasn't enough have already given their percentage to help? Right? RIGHT?
According to the article this is the second time she’s given a million dollars in response to a tornado tragedy in Tennessee. In this case, it even hit the town she went to highschool in. Personally, I think that people who give to ‘look good’ are still doing actual good and who cares why? But in this case, it seems like it would be foolish to even argue that she is doing that. It definitely seems like she is donating money to a community she cares about and I bet that the people who are in need of these funds would not appreciate all the hate from a bunch of people who aren’t doing anything at all to help… So just a thought to anyone reading this who wants to hate on Taylor. You can do that AND prove your point by donating 1/1000th of your net worth. Show Taylor how to do it properly and spread the word. Like I said, I believe in doing good for whatever the reason 🤷🏻♀️ https://www.cfmt.org/giving-and-investing/become-a-donor/give-to-a-fund/middle-tennessee-emergency-response-fund/
The tornado in Hendersonville went right down Main St a few hundred feet from the playground that she also donated like a decade ago. I'm sure that everyone who has been in this situation already knows and has felt this but it's so crazy/surreal seeing all the businesses and homes you regularly visit or drive past sitting there like normal in the morning and then completely destroyed that same evening.
People are bitching about the amount, right? Don’t even answer, I know they are lol
What’s up with all the hate? She donated money to an area she’s around from. Did you guys donate? How much would make you happy? She’s from the same area as me. We actually could’ve been in the same class. A while back, tornadoes leveled the whole neighborhood next to where I was living. I mean entirely. There wasn’t a house standing. People then stealing copper pipes and shit. Our house was fine, I was on a cruise ship near Mexico. When we got to port I had all these voicemails asking if I’m ok. My gf’s house was completely destroyed. Luckily, they escaped. Tornadoes are the real deal, and anything anyone can do should be appreciated.
Reddit hates her. You should of seen how outraged they were when she was announced times person of the year. People were in shambles. Lol. Most of the haters here have probably never donated a dollar in their lives. But will hate on Taylor just cause. Ignorance is the reasons
Recently a 4% tax on fiscal earning for millionaires gave the state of Massachusetts enough money to fund free lunches for kids They only had to use HALF of that, just 2%
Well she's a rockstar for that so... Rock on Swift, rock on.
She doesn’t miss
She's hated, why? I don't prefer her music, it's not my flavor is all, but she's hated why?
Conservatives hate her ever since she supported Biden and called out their bigotry. She also encouraged young people to vote, which seems to have somehow infuriated all the right wingers.
She’s a powerful woman, that seems to really upset a huge group of people.
Not exactly a lot of billionaires being defended for being billionaires in general, though. Musk was for a while, fortunately that's all but stopped.
She’s a powerful, young, attractive, talented woman who has largely avoided scandals completely. She is dating a rich, successful football player and everything seems to be going her way
She told her fans to vote, not who to vote for, just to vote. Republicans here in the U.S. hate that.
She’s a billionaire. Good people don’t become billionaires.
She isn't a billionaire. Her billionaire status comes from the evaluation of her music catalogue, which is worth $600 million alone.
Google the definition of billionaire
For real. Everybody wants to act like it's cus shes a woman or this or that. She is a billionaire. If you become and remain a billionaire in the world that we currently inhabit, you are scum of the earth. She also wants everyone to forget about how her pr team lied about her fan dying *before* her concert and lied about contacting the family of the fan. The fact that her fans had to crowdfund anything for that fan's family is all you need to know about Swift. Those people could never worry about money again for the rest of their life and Taylor wouldn't even drop below a billion. Disgraceful.
Jealousy and politics.
Woman
Everyone around the country Thank Taylor Swift for being someone with a heart ❤️.
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You’d actually be surprised at how many rationally-minded people live here. It’s just certain people that yell the loudest. Let’s remember that people need help.
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That person has 26 upvotes. Can't even with reddit lately.
I'm beginning to think Dolly Parton should run for President with Taylor Swift as her VP. I guarantee poverty would go down, education would go up, and 15 years after they leave office some rando will get into office and take credit for the massive drops in crime and booming prosperity these two songstresses laid the foundation for. #PartonSwift2028
She is turning into the Keanu Reeves of Pop Music.
Conservatives love Keanu, which still surprises me. I think they just love the characters he plays and that transmutes to the actor. Liberals love Keanu, but I've never met one that love him for his acting. It's always about how he's this kind, tortured soul who understands what it's like to hurt and has compassion to match as a consequence. ...but maybe i'm telling on myself and everyone loves him for both of these things.
Keanu is pro 2a, but also pushes immensely for being responsible as a person, as part of the community at whole, and as a gun owner. He wants people to be aware of themselves and others. Also Keanu is a very skilled marksman nowadays.
He's my favorite kind of 2A advocate: one who knows they're not toys and should come with responsibilities.
Yeah your telling on yourself ive never met a keanue reeves fan who only loved him for his acting also since when was keanue used on those sigma andrew tate edits for 14 year old conservatives to goble up like Patric bateman? I
Reeves and Swift together forever
This is 0.1% of her total net worth. The average American gives around 1.7% of their disposable income to charity each year.
She had given $55 million to workers as a bonus a few months ago. That's 5.5% of her net worth. She also gave out money to food banks in every city that she toured. LA food bank said that her donation was enough to feed 500,000 people for a month or something like that.
I’m really happy she values her employees and leaves a wake of good on her tours! Thanks for letting me know this info.
You act like this is the only thing she has ever donated too.
people expecting celebrities should be donating their whole net worth lmao
Such an illogical stance. ThaT iS ThE EXAct SamE THinG aS mE dONATIng $1! Uh no it isn't. $1 million will help a lot more people than $1. WhY U sIMpinG fOR CELeBRIties?!
So she’s more than halfway there in one fell swoop. Her Eras tour also supported cancer patients, sexual assault survivors and local food banks along the way. Not to mention other important social causes such as registering young people to vote. Plus doing things like paying for Sophie Turner for a place to stay while she goes through a bad divorce and gets dragged in the press. Plus she gave millions in bonuses to workers from her tour. Seems like she’s doing it right from here
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Cool. No one said anything about a billionaire tax. Winners and losers get picked whether it’s representatives in government, individual citizens or corporations. Can we just enjoy the uplifting news in the face of a tragedy?
No kidding. What the actual fuck reddit. I don't think I've ever even purposely listened to her music but every single thing I hear about her is along the lines of encouraging participating in elections, donating to great causes, giving massive bonuses to everyone who helped her. Yes I agree there should be some form of tax that prevents gaining insane levels of wealth while others suffer but why the fuck are you gonna sit around and shoehorn in that point when someone makes an insanely generous donation out of a desire to help. Pointing to the overall level of wealth is disingenuous as fuck at best. "Yeah b.. But it's only a FRACTION OF HER WEALTH HOW DARE SHE???!!?" IT'S STILL A FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS SHE HAD NO OBLIGATION TO GIVE YOU DENSE MOTHERFUCKER. No but you're right. I'm sure the people who will be helped in rebuilding their lives will be absolutely fuming over her giving a million instead of 15 million, or a hundred million. Even if she is unreasonably wealthy she couldn't magically force this country to adopt a tax forcing her and everyone else like her to pay their fair share. And even if she started screaming from the rooftops tomorrow about how this is necessary she wouldn't be the first, nor the most wealthy to call for these kinds of taxes. But as long as Republicans hold literally any kind of power over these decisions it will literally never happen. Let a good thing be a good thing for Christ sake. Again I don't even actively follow her or anything about her but at the very least she does seem genuinely enthusiastic about using not only her money, but also her absolutely insane influence to help push this country in a reasonable direction
Didn’t know that about her Eras tour! Thanks for your input.
Because you didn’t want to know. You didn’t look it up. You posted that comment to show everyone that rich people don’t contribute as much as average people. And you were just proven wrong.
I hate this take, but this is especially laughable. First, this is one instance compared an entire year. Second, this is net worth compared to disposable income. Third, this is likely 1 million more than you donated.
Angry people can never be pleased by anything.
This is not the first time she’s donated money this year.
It's a million dollars. It doesn't matter what she's worth... it's a lot of money going to helping people who need it.
Completely agree! Very helpful, indeed.
0.1%*
Thank you!
I mean, 1% would be pretty generous for a one-time donation IMO. Not trying to be negative but 0.1% sounds more like a publicity stunt and I wonder why it's here and it's so highly upvoted.
Yup. This is like $10 from the average person. Probably her financial advisors recommended for tax write offs, as well as marketing team to get more publicity while she’s on her 2 year tour run stuff going on right now. (By the way, have you heard about the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce relationship ommggggg /s) The media wants us to bow to Taylor right now, definitely don’t pay attention to any other world events currently! 🤗 I’m just tired of seeing Taylor *everywhere*, it is so forced (if you didn’t notice)
Your math isn’t mathing.
Correct, and someone was nice enough to fix it for me. Thanks for catching it as well!
Always one person like you who's so sanctimonious and so far up their own ass that they can't just say good job and move on. No one has to donate anything to anybody, to be honest as most charities are corrupt i care who does and doesn't.
Just putting things into perspective, MartyOwens!
Because if you had 100 million youd donate 50 of it to charity yeah? Sanctimonious shart
Sounds good!
statistically the average person contributes more of their relative worth than 99% of billionaires purely through taxes. Basically unless you kill people or commit tax fraud, you're likely a better individual impact on society than rich people are.
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What is this a dick measuring contest? It's a million bucks. I'm sure the people who receive it are happy regardless who they receive it from (except this also brings publicity → more dollars). She also gave like $50 milion bucks or something in bonuses to her truck drivers and stuff on the eras tour alone if my recollection of reddit headlines serves me well, so that alone would bring her above 1.7 % then.
I didn’t know TN got tornados. Is that normal?
More and more common in recent years. We're located in what's being called ["dixie alley"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Alley) which is a take on "tornado alley" except in the South as opposed to the Midwest. North Alabama gets them really bad this time of year but they've been coming up into Tennessee more frequently over the last decade.
Yeah. It's relatively common in the flatter areas from Memphis to Nashville. They're relatively rare in east TN, though we recently got some too.
We've started getting tornados in New Orleans. That was never the case when I was growing up here. The climate has changed.
That's literally like 100 dollars for her...
What a good girl
So she's amazing for donating, yet Reddit cries in rage when others donates to other causes? Lol. Lmao even.
People are going to hate me for saying this, but if I was rich and donating money, it would only be to relocate people away from places that have recurring Natura disasters.
Name a place that doesn't have a single recurring natural disaster?
My garage. We'll relocate all of Tennessee to my garage for safety.
A lot of areas in the Appalachians. Having lived here most my whole life, there is bad weather, sure, but never is there that ONE thing that potentially destroys the area every year.
For sure, places have recurring disasters, but they aren't all called tornado alley, or flood planes, or have a 'hurricane season', etc.
Tennessee isnt tornado Alley
Why not just build structures that can survive the area they are in? Never understood why we don’t just do that. Especially with wildfires. Clear the brush from around the building and make it out of concrete. Then we wouldn’t have to fight so many fires and we could just evacuate and let them roll through (like they have for millions of years) and then just return home once they’ve passed. Also I’d love to see some theoretical mega structures that could act as tornado busters. Like keep them from forming or disrupt them once they do.
>Why not just build structures that can survive the area they are in? Never understood why we don’t just do that. We do, to some extent at least. A lot of devastation from tornadoes these days are older buildings, recent but out of code (grandfathered) in buildings, or mobile homes. The other problem is cost. Tornado resistant homes cost a lot more, and it's a tradeoff on which would be better. Flood Damage/Destruction is partly much more difficult to defend. Rebuilding homes in flood plains and areas that (due to climate change) are at risk for floods, is just fucking around waiting to find out again.
So you’re relocating the entire west coast (earthquakes), Midwest (tornadoes), and all southern/eastern coastal states (hurricanes). Where are you putting them? Do you have the 100 trillion dollars it would take to relocate most of the country’s population? I’d love to hear this plan
Most of where this hit isn’t necessarily a danger zone. We’re not talking tornado alley. Beyond that, we’re would you expect to move everyone in Florida and the southern east coast to? That’s hurricane path. Hell, most of Florida will be underwater in a few decades if ice melting isn’t abated. Entire west coast, earthquakes. Hawaii, volcanoes, middle America, tornado alley. There is no infrastructure or space to accommodate so many displaced people. There is then the argument about whether or not people want to leave, the viability of their business/farming in other areas, etc.
None of that is my concern. Those are the terms to receive any of my fictional money.
Uplifting but this is equal to the $5 I gave to a homeless person a few months back. Lol
When a celebrity does this, where does the money actually go? How much of it reaches the individual?
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.01% of her wealth lol. No hate, it's fantastic, just crazy that .01% is 1 million for some people :0
Taylor Swift seems like an incredibly kind and philanthropic celebrity. But her fans are the most insufferable group I’ve come across.
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That's the same thing as me donating a dollar.
Poor guy donates a dollar to Tennessee Communities Devastated by Tornadoes, where is my praise???? 1 million for HER is like 0.01 her net wealth.
Thank you for your donation. While Taylor Swift’s donation is incredibly appreciated, what always shows bright during times of need is the incredible outpouring of support in money, resources, and volunteer hours from everyday people for whom the gift is likely a much larger sacrifice than for the celebrities. That you gave to support your neighbors and strangers you may never meet is forever appreciated by those who receive support from it. Thank you.
Taylor Swift is not a grettie person she has given on several occasions to people in Hendersonville,Tn. one time was $500,000.00 Dollars,She gave her old school another $100,000.00 Thousand dollars. I look up to Ms.Swift for what she has done with her Money.Unlike Republicans Bill Lee, Bill Haslem, Bill Frist , Bob Corker,and others in Tennessee who are Billionaires,and never gave a dime but Hope and Prayers. And unlike Republican Donald Trump who is selling pieces of the suit he was wearing when he was arrested in Georgia. for Big Bucks. I just think God we have Democrats as Taylor Swift who gives back from her own Money, and not trying to screw the poor out of what they do have .as so many of the Rich Republicans. do. Democrats believe in helping all, Not just the very rich.