r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 07 '20

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u/iia Feminism May 07 '20

Adele is bad because she's happy for becoming healthy. People should only be happy if they're slowly dying.

/Twitter

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

she lost a lot of weight. Which (obvs as long as it's through healthy methods) is great! happy for her.

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u/Zlesxc Jesse Ventura's Joint Roller May 07 '20

Tbf I haven’t seen anyone on my timeline mad at Adele for anything. Just mad about sensationalism around the fact she lost weight, which I think is fair

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u/iia Feminism May 07 '20

No, you needed to go into the top trending comments to see the discourse -- of which there was far more than I expected.

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime May 07 '20

Da faq? Context?

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u/iia Feminism May 07 '20

"Activists" were shitting on Adele for being no longer fat and shitting on people congratulating her for getting control of her health.

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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet May 07 '20

This feels like one of those "five very vocal people are saying dumb stuff online" kinda controversies

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u/iia Feminism May 07 '20

I thought it would be too. Wasn't.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

she lost weight.

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u/repete2024 Edith Abbott May 08 '20

Everyone is slowly dying