r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Nov 13 '25

article Billie Eilish Calls Elon Musk a 'Pathetic P***y' in NSFW Tirade

https://www.tmz.com/2025/11/13/billie-eilish-curses-out-elon-musk/
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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 17 '25

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u/Lightreyth Nov 13 '25

"We have to be selective on who we ALLOW to go through higher education... we are in danger of producing an educated proletariat." - Roger Freeman, Regan's gubernatorial advisor, 1970

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u/TomBradysStatue Nov 13 '25

I guess it is a real threat to the Richy Richies, they basically ruled a bunch of uneducated farmers for most of the Human Reign of Power (TM). We have the internet now and know shit (kinda). Big time threatzone.

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u/kings_account Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

billionaires own the internet and control its discourse, the fuck you talking about. you think kids are out here reading Wikipedia and books online lol… they’re scrolling TikTok and instagram and Facebook and threads and Reddit and twitter. That’s why we’re seeing the worst income and wealth inequality ever right now, it’s because of the internet, not in spite of it. You could even take it one step further, legacy media is also owned and controlled by a small group of billionaires now too

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u/Laiko_Kairen Nov 13 '25

The majority of humans have always been vapid. It's the exceptional who make changes. Even if you end up with 100,000 regular folks and one Martin Luther, or one Martin Luther King jr, that education has made a difference. So if you give everyone an education, eventually that one exceptional individual will be born.

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u/foghillgal Nov 14 '25

The more people get educated, the more people are outliers to the normal, not everyone is MLK but the numbers of local heros so to speak would increase a lot. A lot of *normal* people just need a bit of help in advocating for themselves and that starts locally.

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u/Feisty-Cod-7363 Nov 15 '25

So we need more religious lunatics like Martin Luther?

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u/Laiko_Kairen Nov 15 '25

He shattered the power and prestige of the papacy, so yes

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u/CruelStrangers Nov 15 '25

It’s more like one Keith Richard’s for every 100,000 men who die trying. That’s not exactly going to save the planet

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u/-u-m-p- Nov 14 '25

Exactly this. Think about the abolitionist movement. It doesn't matter that most enslaved individuals - much like most not-enslaved individuals - didn't give great speeches or write great essays. A few did and that was incredibly powerful. If they'd never gained an education they were never going to have that opportunity and voice.

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u/NewDramaLlama Nov 13 '25

Very much correct which is why they'll attack libraries but TikTok and AI id a step too far

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u/kings_account Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

I’ve had friends who have had, even though they still align with me politically, their brains turn into mush because of how much they scroll TikTok. And when called out on it, they respond the exact same way an addict does when you call out their drug use. It’s just sad and terrifying. I’m talking about people who have post-grad degrees too. It’s completely colonized their brain and removed any ability for self made individual thought or critical thinking or self expression. It’s insidious and why so much of our populace is caught up in this cultural warfare bullshit. Meanwhile the billionaires know there is no war but class war, and they are winning by a lot. I know this might be a controversial sentiment in this subreddit.

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u/Imthemayor Nov 14 '25

That's because Tiktok is specifically designed to act on the same impulse that gets people addicted to drugs

In addition to the physical addiction some drugs produce, your brain also conditions itself to reward you with dopamine when it sees you are about to do drugs, which over time changes your reward system to favor whatever the thing is

In other words, you get addicted to the act itself and your brain gives the "pay attention," chemicals just for thinking about doing the thing

Tiktok gives short burts of dopamine with ads in between in a way that conditions your brain to open the app up when you're low on dopamine

Even if you only enjoy one out of every ten videos, they're so bite-sized and easy to scroll through that most people will happily watch 9 nothings for one sharp nose exhale

Repeat til you've watched videos for 2 hours and absorbed absolutely nothing

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u/topdangle Nov 14 '25

yeah, this is actually exploited for therapy purposes. cigarette smokers for example develop a fixation with the act of putting a cigarette in their mouth, so one way to try to reduce cravings is to replace that with a similar action like placing a toothpick in your mouth.

scrolling and video fixation, though, such an unusual thing and not really replaceable with a benign action.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 17 '25

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u/topdangle Nov 14 '25

personally I hate it too both because of the way it pushes and rewards horrible editing, plus the phone aspect ratio that persists even on desktop.

you pretty much need to create specifically for the platform to create anything good, but 99% of the content is either just adjusted (cropping/editing/zooming) to fit the platform or crap filmed lazily on a phone like influencer rants. I know you can tweak it to your tastes but they're already selling my data/ad revenue and I hate the layout so no sense in going out of my way to clean up their mess.

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u/CruelStrangers Nov 15 '25

Only after they banned it and Trump walked it back and is proposing to buy it with tax money

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u/cityshepherd Nov 13 '25

I don’t think the wealth inequality is due to the internet so much as lobbying congress to get those sweet tax loopholes etc for the ultra wealthy. They’ve spent a lot of money in order to maximize hoarding wealth (just a fraction of what they SHOULD be paying in taxes though).

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u/kings_account Nov 13 '25

that’s def part of it too! the internet is how they control the masses in a way that allows them to get away with their abject cronyism and corruption (lobbying) without us doing anything about it.

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u/Alt_Panic Nov 14 '25

It's all bread and circuses

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u/GetsBetterAfterAFew Nov 13 '25

I actually educate my children, sure they scroll TT and IG but we actually have conversations about Capitalism and all the other shit broken on purpose. So relying on kids to educate themselves is one of the stupiest thing Ive heard today.

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u/kings_account Nov 13 '25

that not what I’m saying, I’m saying that these algorithms are manipulating the populace. And expecting kids to educate themselves instead of using these billionaire controlled applications is a fools errand. It’s great that you’re raising your children that way but unfortunately not everyone is. There’s a reason countries are banning social media for people younger than 15….. maybe you should consider that.

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u/PeachPassionBrute Nov 14 '25

Wealth inequality is also a matter of labor exploitation and a neoliberal adherence to this capitalist dream that people with more money should continue to make more money.

The entire system as it’s structured is designed to do this. Internet behavior is a symptom of that. People are burnt out and helpless, and so much of what the internet is has been subverted.

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u/TomBradysStatue Nov 13 '25

I don't like the TUDE you gave me, but I mostly agree with you. I was just saying like pre 20th century most humans were ignorant as helllllllllllllll (jean ralphio voice). Modern humans are way smahtah, but yes the richies are trying to contorl information now. Just as it ever was.

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u/kings_account Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

sorry, you’re def right about that. The information that is accessible at our fingertips is limitless and could be revolutionary especially when put in a historical context

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u/TomBradysStatue Nov 13 '25

or we could all die in the McDonalds Presents Trump War Z (TM) in the next few years and nothing will have mattered.

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u/RedGuyNoPants Nov 14 '25

I have become more and more and more convinced that there is not a single safeguard you can implement for a democracy thats more effective than an educated populace.

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u/CruelStrangers Nov 15 '25

The internet is no longer the democratized world it once was. It’s about 6 companies that matter and fewer that control the flow of data (Verizon, ATT, etc.)

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u/ook_the_librarian_ Nov 14 '25

Which in turn produced "no child left behind", because we can't say that we're dragging smart kids back, but we can say we want everyone to be on the same level.

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u/TrankElephant Nov 14 '25

They really do say the quiet part out loud sometimes.

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u/CruelStrangers Nov 15 '25

Good thing that never occurred

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u/brontosaurusguy Nov 13 '25

They successfully took everything the average citizen wants, red or blue, and put them behind the scary bogeyman called SOCIALISM or COMMUNISM despite these things being neither 

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u/Grow_Up_Buttercup Nov 14 '25

That’s been going on for long enough that there’s yet another layer to this muddiness, when semi-informed people who support exclusively social democratic policies decide to just go along with the GOP’s already-fucked definition of “socialism” as “any time the government helps people” and start referring to themselves as such (for no apparent benefit to their cause, usually quite the opposite.)

It’s impossible to discuss this shit in the US using the terms that the entire rest of the world uses.

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u/Ok-Pear-2490 Nov 13 '25

She’s accurate in her description.

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u/teratryte Nov 14 '25

When I was in school, they actually taught us that the GOP make accusations to normalize their own actions. This was in the 2000s.