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Kim is sometimes unbearable on Twitter


The thing that I’ve noticed based on Kim’s Twitter account, is that she seems fully 100% content on promoting animal welfare. I hate to single her out for something like that because she isn’t the only celebrity to use social media to promote causes that are personal to them. But it seems like, if I want to read stuff like that all the time, I’ll go to PETA’s Twitter account. Maybe my point, is that I wish that Kim would talk about stuff that she’s doing besides that. It just feels extremely pretentious if you ask me.

It seems like Kim just makes a movie and doesn’t put forth enough of a personal effort to promote it or make everybody know that she’s in it. If the movie is successful and it gains herself accolades, then its an added bonus. This is part of the reason why I think her career cooled off after her Oscar win, because she didn’t do a better enough of a job to keep herself and her name relevant (outside of her personal issues w/ Alec Baldwin).

The only non-animal related stuff that I’ve come across on her Twitter, is when she said something about David Letterman in lieu of his retirement.

https://twitter.com/kimbasinger

What doesn’t help is that Kim has to align herself (of all of the animal welfare causes) w/ those wack-jobs at PETA (as I’ve previously mentioned):
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DeaderThanDisco/RealLife

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was once the premier animal rights organization in the United States. In the early-mid 2000s they gained acclaim for their chilling exposes into industrial farming, most notably the documentary “Kentucky Fried Cruelty” which described the abuses faced by animals raised for their meat. Teen activists rallied behind them and celebrities such as Pamela Anderson endorsed them… until two bombshells were dropped near the end of the decade. The first was their turn toward increasingly radical and nonsensical campaigns, the two most infamous of which were a petition to rename “fish” to “sea kittens” and a campaign against Pokémon and Super Mario Bros.. The second, and most important, was the revelation that they euthanize the vast majority of the animals sent to their shelters, apparently due to feeling that domestication is a Fate Worse Than Death for animals and that they were mercy killing them. PETA euthanized about 90% of the animals they rescued (compared to the ASPCA only putting down about 10%), they had large capacity walk-in refrigerators that rivaled restaurants to store the animals prior to disposal, and they were caught because the people dumping the bodies at one shelter decided to use a nearby dumpster instead of an approved disposal method. Now, most animal rights and environmental activists view them as a joke punchline at best, and morally bankrupt at worst.

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she isn’t the only celebrity to use social media to promote causes that are personal to them.
What do you think "services" like these were invented for if not to be used to promote something personal?!

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My point is that I don't like to be bombard w/ only one thing that's "important" 100% of the time. To me, that boarders on pretentiousness or self-importance as well as just plain redundancy.

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I'm an animal lover like Kim too, but there are also, other important things or issues that are going on in the world! Kim just seems like the ultimate "Debbie Downer".

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So Kim should run her Twitter account to suit you and not herself? THAT'S pretentious!
I was gonna let you *beep* me, but I got my rag, and I know how you hate a mess

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My point is that why are you going to spend most of your time simply rehashing what PETA already said!? Why are you on *beep* Twitter in the first place, if you aren't going to be more "personable"/out in the open if that makes sense?

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Kim should also be heavily concerned about her daughter's alleged coke habit/hard partying, if you believe all of the blind items/gossip about her.

143. BLIND GOSSIP 04/14 **#1**

http://www.agcwebpages.com/BLINDITEMS/2015/APRIL.html

http://blindgossip.com/?p=70657

Want to know what really happened with that young celebrity who is in big trouble? Well, we are going to share the very interesting backstory with you! Earlier this month, you were told that she was sick with a specific illness. It is the kind of painful illness that sometimes requires emergency surgery and normally takes about 4-6 weeks from which to recover. The sad news and the sad photo were distributed widely and were designed to get you to feel sorry for her. You did feel sorry for her, didn’t you? Well, you got played. It was all a lie. She did not have that illness at all. She did not have emergency surgery. She was actually in the hospital because her drug habit had spiraled out of control. The very next day after the fake illness was announced, her father drove her to a rehab center. She was freaked out by the fact that several other family members were waiting there to do an intervention with her. She denied that she has a problem, said that no one was going to tell her what she could and could not do, and walked out without being admitted. Almost a week later, she finally relented and allowed herself to be checked into a different, more "lenient" facility for treatment. You’re still being played. They don’t want you to know that she is a spoiled child whose money goes straight up her nose. They want you to feel sorry for her. That’s why they made up the fake illness, and that is why they are now using words like "therapy" and trauma" instead of "rehab" and "addict." Given her odd family history, does any of this surprise you?
Daughter: Ireland Baldwin (Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin)
Fake Illness: appendicitis

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This is what French actress Catherine Denevue said about fellow French actress Brigitte Bardot, so take this for all that it's worth:
http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/1101357-Does-Catherine-Denevue-Hate-Brigitte-Bardot-(Old-Hollywood)

[on Brigitte Bardot] I saw extracts of her book: they were the most horrible things you can possibly read. Imagine writing that you wanted to get rid of your baby son, as she did. Not being a good mother is her problem, but making it public like that... It could have been a very human piece of writing, but in her case it was just harsh and inhuman. I know her a little and she's a strange human being. She's very childish. She loves animals, because loving animals is very easy, but emotionally, I think she has a big problem. She's like someone who never grew up. I don't consider myself to be a grown-up person but I'm more interested in people than in animals. And I think that if you are involved as much as she is with animals, then there is something strange about your dealings with the human race. She's like a sauce which has curdled. There is nothing you can do. There is no hope.'

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