It does however set a precedent for other celebrities and people going forward so I’m kinda with her on this one. If there’s one person who can make a stink about this and have it matter, it’s probably her.
It would have been better if it was one of the likeable celebrities. Like Keanu Reeves.
It does however set a precedent for other celebrities and people going forward
The precedent is “you need to jump through a series of legal hoops and build up a legal army in order to secure what was already supposed to be yours to begin with”.
It would have been better if it was one of the likeable celebrities. Like Keanu Reeves.
It wouldn’t matter, because we’re talking about an entrenched legal precedent not a likeability contest.
In some sense, it begins to feel like all that sovereign citizenship bullshit. People being fed this narrative that you have to perform an elaborate, esoteric legal dance in order to have your humanity recognized by the state bureaucracy. It creates the (false) impression that there’s One Neat Trick to having your civil rights acknowledged and respected, and you just need to be savvy enough to speak the magic words and perform the ritual dance. In truth, you’re in a boxing match with a gorilla.
Yeah this is one of those ones like:
She’s not wrong, but also, she can get bent.
It does however set a precedent for other celebrities and people going forward so I’m kinda with her on this one. If there’s one person who can make a stink about this and have it matter, it’s probably her.
It would have been better if it was one of the likeable celebrities. Like Keanu Reeves.
But I guess you take what you can get.
The precedent is “you need to jump through a series of legal hoops and build up a legal army in order to secure what was already supposed to be yours to begin with”.
It wouldn’t matter, because we’re talking about an entrenched legal precedent not a likeability contest.
In some sense, it begins to feel like all that sovereign citizenship bullshit. People being fed this narrative that you have to perform an elaborate, esoteric legal dance in order to have your humanity recognized by the state bureaucracy. It creates the (false) impression that there’s One Neat Trick to having your civil rights acknowledged and respected, and you just need to be savvy enough to speak the magic words and perform the ritual dance. In truth, you’re in a boxing match with a gorilla.