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Wuddi@lemmy.zip to News@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

Ariana Grande rebukes White House for using her music in ‘barbaric, inhumane’ ICE video

www.theguardian.com

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Ariana Grande rebukes White House for using her music in ‘barbaric, inhumane’ ICE video

www.theguardian.com

Wuddi@lemmy.zip to News@lemmy.world · 5 days ago
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Grande is the latest in a series of pop musicians including Sabrina Carpenter and SZA who have been angered by Trump administration videos
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  • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
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    She still looks 13 to me.

  • Etterra@discuss.online
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    Good for her. I still remember the time she licked those donuts and put them back on the shelf though. We should remind her, it’s not good to let celebrities think too highly of themselves. They’re still humans after all.

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      Not defending her actions there, but how long is are we supposed to judge her for that? It was like 10 years ago and she was barely an adult. It was dumb as fuck but I think any reasonable person could assume she grew up a bit since then.

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      Do they charge extra for the donuts Ariana licked or are they the same price? Asking for a friend…

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    Are we done with “slammed” then, or…?

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      I hear they’re workshopping “hammered” next.

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    https://www.reversecanarymission.org/person/ariana-grande

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    Sue them. Not for money, but for the release of the unredacted Epstein files.

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      Sue them for EVERYTHING.

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    Am I wrong that she’s already come out as a trump supporter in the past?

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      Tough to find anything other than today’s news, but it looks like no?

      https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ariana-grande-questions-trump-voters_n_68da8cb9e4b0a3d9991e3860

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    A bunch of these artists should get together and do I “We Are the World” style video performing a parody cover of Nugent’s Jailbait written to refer explicitly to all the accusations and charges against Trump. Well, as long as Nugent doesn’t get any money from it. Do artists get paid when another artist does a cover or parody?

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      Cover yes parody no. Weird Al famously asks for permission to parody songs but he doesn’t have to.

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    Ariana Grande is probably going to use this opportunity to get with Trump and break up his marriage.

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      How much moral highground can the girl who did blackface for a decade really have anyway

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        What now?

        • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zip
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          There is no reason this should be ok.

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            She looks relatively normal in three of those photos, and the fourth looks obviously doctored.

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            It was my understanding that she is of Italian decent. One of those pictures is kind of dark, but my own mother, a black haired Norwegian, gets quite tanned in the summer. But guess none of these stars ever see natural sun as it ages the skin…

            She has applied that herself as an deliberate look.

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        Remember when she licked food that was for sale?

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    When asked by Variety for comment about its use of music by Taylor Swift in a November 2025 video, the White House replied: “We made this video because we knew fake news media brands like Variety would breathlessly amplify them. Congrats, you got played.”

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      Jesus christ. This is lame even for high school level

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        There is a sizeable amount of the electorate below highschool level.

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        Everyone in this administration stopped maturing by the time they reached seventh grade.

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          These people are the ones who peaked in Middle School. Normally they settle into jobs where they make everyone around them miserable, but these dipshits hit the societal lottery, and accidentally got tossed on top of the heap of stupid.

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      I die a little inside every time I see this kind of 4chan level shit posting from the highest levels of our government.

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        Seriously. We could randomly elect a 4chaner as president and it wouldn’t get worse than that.

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    At this point, I have to think that they are just trolling.

    “Look at these snowflakes getting offended over a silly video. We only care about important things, like the War On Christmas!”

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      they use it as a sort of dog whistle. They use music KNOWING the artist won’t support it, then further lure in fans of said artists who were leaning right to be full right. “Oh I love Ariana Grande’s music, they’re using her song in this video? awesome! what? she doesn’t support this? screw her I hate Ariana Grande.”

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      That’s the entire basis of the MAGA movement, and all fascist movements.

      Literally all of their political “beliefs” are simply the same emotional and stupid thoughts they’ve had since they were school yard bullies. It’s all about blaming everyone else for your problems, and killing them for it.

      Its the political version of an abusive, 70 IQ point dad beating his wife and kids because he’s insecure about his tiny dick, which unironically fits Trump literally.

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      It says it in the article.

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    Honestly though, that’s excellent grounds for a lawsuit

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      That would require action and not just grandstanding…

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        Who is grandstanding? The trump admin has like 300 active lawsuits against them.

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      It’s basis for 2, damages from copyright infringement, and damages for defamation.

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        Unless OFC the person you’re trying to sue owns the DOJ. Then everything is moot.

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    Prepare for a forthcoming escalated stern rebuke.

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      How the f are they ever going to recover from so much rebuking

    • crank0271@lemmy.world
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      Chuck Schumer’s glasses are going to be both as far up and as far down his nose as they can be.

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        Gonna take a while to get up and down then.

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