• homes@piefed.world
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    19 hours ago

    One would think that he is most embarrassed that he looks like that now

    I’m 47, but I look almost identical to how I looked when I was in my mid 20s. (I realize that I am exceptionally lucky, but he’s extremely rich, and has access to plastic surgeons and such)

    He looks like shit

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        3 hours ago

        It’s worth mentioning these are not the only times Ritchie drops the n-word during my visit. It’d be easy to label this as the rantings of a drunk racist, but as with everything that Ritchie does, it’s hard to know how calculated it all is. Is he just trying to get a reaction? Is he begging to be pilloried when this story comes out so he can launch into a very public tirade against “cancel culture”? Is this all just a play for more attention? Would any of that make it less shitty?

        The strange thing is, despite his rhetoric, Ritchie’s politics aren’t uniformly regressive. He considers himself socially liberal. And the longer we argue, the more I can see the faint outlines of reasonable stances on things like immigration, government regulation of corporations, and tax policy. But here’s the thing: Nobody will ever hear any of that over the shouting, the name-calling, and all of his other attention-grabbing bullshit. I don’t think he really cares because the shouting, the name-calling, and the attention-grabbing bullshit are who he is now. It’s as if the blurry line between Kid Rock and Bob Ritchie has disappeared entirely.

        It’s textbook alcoholism. Super simple.

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        17 hours ago

        I didn’t realize it until I got into the second paragraph, but I read this when it was originally published.

        It is exactly as upsetting as when I read it originally.

        The Rolling Stone is an extraordinary publication.

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      19 hours ago

      Why do you care, and why do you think because people have money they would get plastic surgery?

      Maybe he’s actually comfortable with who he is and doesn’t care to impress American twats.

      Never thought I’d be defending the guy…

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        18 hours ago

        If he was comfortable with who he was, he would not constantly keep trying to get the approval of others, especially the Titanic pile of shit called Donald Trump and his followers.

        I care because he is an insidious tool of fascism. And that tool is being used to destroy what little is left of democracy in this nation.

        The question is: why don’t you care?

        Never thought I’d be defending the guy…

        Why are you? how could you?

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          18 hours ago

          Because good looks don’t herald good character and bad looks don’t herald bad character.