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You want “cultural icon”? Taylor Swift. At least she’s a woman.

This whole thing sounds like trolling. And on her birthday, ffs.

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Hmmmm... something is definitely weird at the Opperman Foundation:

https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/dwight-d-opperman-foundation,411856258/

Assets of $10MM just evaporated? Not that it would take long with a half million bucks in expenses (is Sarah Huckabee Sanders on thre board?), but something smells fishy.

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Ding ding ding! That explains the more awards than usual, given to more people than usual, in an attempt to drive up numbers of donors at the award event. Covering up mismanagement or grabbing their cash before the hole can be spotted and the foundation sinks.

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How to represent professionally: show that I pissed away a lot of money, so I can totally be trusted with your money! Show my expenses, which in no way account for the missing $9.5M dollars that evaporated. random Capitalization! Thanks for this link, JFC. 🤦‍♀️

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Mutual Butt Kissing! Or, the American Way! This country is in the dumps.

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Milkan actually has been a very generous philanthropist to important causes in Los Angeles since his release.

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So I read the Post article including the previous awardees (Elizabeth II!) and some of the comments, and it seems to me a foundation giving an award like this at all is just a tax dodge sort of scam masquerading as a foundation. Someone is drawing a salary to promote awards to already rich and famous people to get other rich people to donate money to the foundation and get a lavish party.

This year it appears they went whole-hog to ignore their self-preservation instincts (everyone would ignore them if the award went to already rich and famous women, even if the names they chose could be put in a hat by elementary schoolers making a list of familiar women in power) making me curious about whether the whole foundation is currently collapsing and they’re trying to get other rich people’s money in and theirs out asap.

Anand Giridharadas’s _Winners Take All_ comes to mind. All sorts of rich people wanting to feel good about having too much money so they develop companies or foundations that do the work of actual charitable organizations poorly, all so they can make the money they think they deserve. The nicest thing I can think is that these people are fooling themselves.

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Milkan actually has been a very generous philanthropist to important causes in Los Angeles since his release.

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Giving the RGB award to Stallone makes a certain amount of sense. He too should have already gracefully retired from the (action hero) game but just can't give up when it's time.

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Are you kidding? Everyone follows the leadership of Stallone. Didn't you see Rocky?

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Turning my head from side to side in dismay.

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Not really sure why the gynosexual blowjob kings are upsetting everyone so much...

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It's gross that Stallone's wife would get him nominated for an award meant for women. Women like her stab the rest of us in the back. Terrible.

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I think he looks like Billy Joel if Billy Joel fell into the Joker vat. At some point, you gotta stop pullin' on it, regardless of what it is.

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Aren't we all a bit sick of you... regardless of who you really are?

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Don't blame him. I'm a bit sick of me too.

The world is less of a place without Lou Reed.

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The movie is over if you'd like to join us there for OT!

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Thx

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Watching this Infinity War Avenger Movie. Has a really big guy with a scrotum chin!

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Definitely Ken Paxton.

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Peter Griffin?

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Heh, he clearly has a set of balls on his chin, but it's not a wrinkly scrotum.

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I have one of those, and I'll have you know it's properly called a "butt chin."

EDT: OK, I just looked up Thanos, and mine isn't 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 that bad.

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And Trump has "vagina chin."

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Slowball right over the plate...

https://substack.com/@paulomatic/note/c-39105579?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=edsu

Click it, you'll like it!

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I think that's actually his neck.

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Pardon me for not looking closely.

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Yeah, that's his name!

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He (it?) looks like his (its?) chin has a permanent beard of flesh.

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Yeah, I might be misgendering them.

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The KKK took my baby away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOpdKnoG8hE

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I'll see your Wipe Out and raise you a Miserlou.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpsuGMeqHI

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Our drummer loved this song so we played it, people always danced.

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That's the best deranged laugh to start a song of all time.

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Did they reproduce it when they played live?

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Never heard them live, but why TF not? How much fun would that have been?

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Hungry Like A Wolf also starts with a laugh.

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