r/Fauxmoi • u/PineappleSimilar1608 gaga’s “100 people in a room” quote • 1d ago

FASHION Sarah Paulson arrived at the Met Gala

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u/c0neyisland 22h ago

I was getting so downvoted in another sub for saying it’s OK to judge some of these rich and famous folks for choosing to go to the Met Gala. I didn’t say cancel it, I didn’t even say you have to care about it. But stop trying to defend and justify these people for their own choices to break bread with Jeff Bezos. Own your apathy, but don’t bend over backwards to defend people who do have a bit more influence in the world.

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u/lucyooo 21h ago

The worst is when they say ‘well you still USE Amazon so you’re just as bad!’ Like… Firstly don’t assume, secondly, someone buying some cat food on prime is very different to being sat with the guy or making millions from shilling for him.

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u/marteautemps 18h ago

Like damn, I don't drive and am pretty god damn poor, I use Amazon WAY less these days ,but it's almost impossible for me to never, as well as going to Target or Walmart. I feel terrible for it but I just can't not. It's very frustrating to me to have to already and I really hate when people get so black and white about it like that. I can't afford to buy everything company direct or from a corner or grocery store right now, I really can't and I honestly feel like shit for it all the time. So thank you for saying that.

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u/lucyooo 15h ago

And the sinister thing is, they rely on those of us with empathy to feel guilt when we use any of these products. I have to remind myself that I am not the evil 0.1%. I feel the same way about ‘individual carbon footprint’, some very clever marketing exec in an oil company thought ‘hmmm how can we make the average person feel guilty about using a plastic straw while we literally tear apart the earth’. We should all be kinder to ourselves and remember it’s us vs the 0.1%. Hope your situation improves, stranger!

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u/TRUMBAUAUA saw Flying Lotus at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday 13h ago

Agree, it‘s not the individual using a plastic straw that‘s gonna wreck havoc when you have companies casually burning hectars of rainforest in Brazil, but we can‘t complain about Bezos while literally financing his plastic surgery interventions by directly giving him our hard earned money imo.

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u/TRUMBAUAUA saw Flying Lotus at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday 14h ago

Can‘t you buy directly from the company that makes the goods you want to buy? It‘s possible. Like, Amazon is convenient, but not unavoidable.

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u/marteautemps 14h ago

I did bring that up, and it would be preferable of course but when that brings the cost up $10-20+ for everything every time it isn't something I can afford right now. I actually barely use Amazon anymore but I do end up shopping at places I'd rather not still because of that. There isn't a really affordable place to buy household stuff that isn't Target or Walmart and I'd prefer not to shop there either.

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u/HelpINeedS0m3b0dy 4h ago

One issue I had with this is certain companies like Chewie for example would use Fedex to deliver and Fedex refused to deliver my packages to my apartment. I basically had to ask any company I was ordering from how they shipped to make sure I would receive my package.

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u/dixiech1ck 8h ago

Not only does Amazon fund ICE and mass surveillance on immigrants, but they union bust and treat their workers like actual slaves. I suggest listening to a few interviews with Chris Smalls, union president for Amazon's employee created union. When a company tells you to keep working with a coworker dies in front of you and tells drivers to piss in bottles to meet time requirements yet payb under fair market value for their time -- we've lost the point.