https://twitter.com/kristentootie/status/1350454674701185026?s=19

Screen cap of tweets: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/OuuXjwvBgE.jpg

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Hot take: I dont think here the problem is her living in that fancy treehouse, but as usual, the problem is the system that has made it impossible for people to not be able to live where they want and having to pay a huge part of your income for rent.

    • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      When she moved to Bali and got that apartment, she became someone who is perpetuating that exact system in Bali. She made herself part of the problem, and she did so willingly.

    • zangorn [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yea this doesn’t bother me one but. Good for her. I’m a little envious. We don’t have global communism, why should I be upset she isn’t living like we do?

      • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        me

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        What about the groups of people, like for example Balinese locals, that don't include yourself?

              • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                What's disingenuous is pretending that a single picture of a random happy petty bourgeois is evidence that systemic problems don't exist, or evidence of anything at all, really.

                no locals have opined

                I'm gonna bet this isn't true at all. But like, what happens to rent prices in places like Bali when relatively wealthy westerners arrive is known. And I strongly doubt most Balinese want higher rents.

                this ain’t it, to me,

                Did you see the part where she's encouraging and trying to help people make this move, right now, despite the pandemic?

                I'll level with ya that her use of the phrase "elevate my lifestyle" sparks rage. Influencer-speak for "I wanted more luxurious housing and better insta backgrounds."

                  • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    She could have spent her money at local businesses in her home, she didn't have to go abroad to do that.

                    and probably doesn’t deserve dragging the poor lib until she locks her Twitter.

                    Once again, she is encouraging people to do what she did, during an active pandemic. And on top of that, she's selling her ebook about it; that entire Twitter thread serves as a long form ad.

                    She absolutely deserves, at a minimum, to be dragged until she locks her Twitter.

        • zangorn [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          This is how immigration works. People move around the world looking to make better lives for themselves. What about the people who already live there? Do you sympathize with Americans who feel threatened by Mexican immigrants? I hope not. This whole thing is very silly to get upset about.

          • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Do you sympathize with Americans who feel threatened by Mexican immigrants?

            Lol OK buddy, go back to reddit.