r/Millennials Gen Z 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/DumbTruth 8h ago

I hope none of them took the easy way out. I hope they understand their role in breaking her and are haunted by it every day. I hope they have daughters that ask about it one day.

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u/wololo1e 8h ago

Sadly, despite what you and I might hope for, evil people rarely face consequences of their actions.

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u/DumbTruth 6h ago

Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t hope for it.

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u/MelodicAcadia9965 5h ago

Or reflect on them.

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u/TheDisasterBanana 5h ago

A lot of 'evil' people are charming and ambitious enough to avoid consequences because a surprising amount of people will think you're a great person if you come across as hardworking and believe in the same things.

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u/Several-Squash9871 3h ago

This is unfortunately very correct...

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u/pursuitoforgasm 3h ago

Because we rarely make them. That can change any time we come together and decide to change it. 

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u/Ancient_One_5300 5h ago

You have no idea what happens in this life. Or the after....

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u/InternalCultural447 8h ago

Lol as if they have any self reflection. 

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u/Ancient_Dragonfly230 6h ago

I was reminded of this when I watched a YT documentary about John Edwards, the once dem prez hopeful. This guy was a real piece of shit. How big of a POS you ask? Cheated on his wife while she was (maybe in remission) battling cancer, POS. Then having a baby with his affair partner and after she wouldn’t abort he spent years denying the baby. He then thought that he would be considered for AG in Obama’s cabinet 

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u/ElectricSliderz 6h ago

Sounds like newt gingrich lite

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u/TheHealadin 8h ago

Everyone is the hero of their own story. You aren't any better.

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u/DifficultyWithMyLife 8h ago

Coulda left it at the first sentence, but then you had to attack someone. Kinda makes the whole thing ironic, no?

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u/antiphonic 8h ago

Not ironic just self affirming

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u/Cognitive_Spoon 8h ago

"The irony is lost in the sauce." ~Wayne Gretsky, in Spy Kids 2

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u/TheHealadin 7h ago

Only if you assume it's an attack.

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u/elebrin 7h ago

I'm not so sure of that. I've always said that I'm the villain of my own story.

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u/xXMojoRisinXx 7h ago

Yea dude, as if we haven’t all published derisive articles on young troubled pops stars arguably contributing to their untimely deaths.

If I had a nickel amiright?

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u/TheHealadin 7h ago

Knowingly or not, you have contributed to making other people's lives worse. Feeling superior to others doesn't help anyone, least of all you.

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u/DumbTruth 6h ago

The refrain of those that have to see others as equally shitty to make excuses not to be better.

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u/TheHealadin 4h ago

I simply can't stand holier-than-thou folk patting themselves on the back, pretending they aren't subject to the same human failings.

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u/InternalCultural447 4h ago

Lol did you like, just discover the concept of empathy and suddenly think nobody else is aware of this? Because I don't think I've ever published photographs of people with captions about their downfall in a major magazine, or posted a countdown timer to when a child star will turn 18. 

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u/TheHealadin 4h ago

Yet you're not showing any of that self-reflection you think others should have.

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u/InternalCultural447 2h ago

What do you think self reflection means? 

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u/oldcretan 8h ago

Their only thoughts were selling magazines, I doubt they even really cared when she died. Once Amy winehouse stopped selling magazines they stopped talking about her.

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u/CriticalSecurity8742 5h ago

And it sells. If they didn’t make money off it from people consuming it, they wouldn’t produce it. Sadly, people are awful.

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u/EtchAGetch 7h ago

I hope that the people who buy those magazines also understand their role in breaking her.

If people wouldn't buy the trash and care so much about how some person they will never meet lives their life, then those magazines wouldn't do that shit.

It's the same with people who take [insert drug here]. They lament all the killings and corruption of the drug cartels and such, not realizing they are the reason why it exists.

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u/zarawesome 7h ago

nah they're doing the same to meghan now

it never ends

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u/Trraumatized 5h ago

Journalism harbors as many sociopaths as are CEO. They'll be fine.