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I love the focus on the ‘childless cat lady’ line.
I think that line epitomises the pointless spite that characterises MAGAism. The constant bullying and insults are entirely unnecessary to their agenda but they just can’t stop themselves, and if we end up post-November with them wondering how things might have gone had they not insulted tons of voters this way then I’ll find that delicious.
I suppose the counterpoint is that the insults and bullying might well be necessary, that their ‘othering’ and painting opponents as lesser, more ridiculous, less human enemies is a core part of how such populist fascist movements gain traction. “The cruelty is the point,” as some say.
The constant bullying and insults are entirely unnecessary to their agenda
The constant bullying and insults are the very core of fascist strategy.
It’s totally the point. The problem is they are running out of “outsider” groups they can demonize effectively so they have turned towards their own potential voters (mainly women).
As much as they want to turn transgender people into the new jews, most people just don’t have that much of a problem with them.
IMHO it’s harder to demonize a group that might include your son or daughter. Their racism persists because there are no white people who discover that they’ve actually been black their whole lives.
Although, I bet if those racist assholes took DNA tests many of them would find they did have some African-American blood, especially if they were from the South.
Well of course she did… it’s easy being a Democrat celebrity…
Agreed. It sure is easy to publicly not be a cunt.
lol you say that as if Trump didn’t get away with everything forever
Have a downvote with that salty wine
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris-rcna170547
Yet another reason to note vote for that parrot drone of a politician. Ignorant person endorsing an ignorant person.
And when did it become important who a pop star “endorses”? Should it really help sway opinion?
Gtf outta here.
What sort of direct action do you endorse?
Lol… this is the problem though. My “endorsement” doesn’t matter much, and it shouldn’t matter to you. I’m a random person on the internet, I hope my endorsement wouldn’t sway your opinion. (Facts backed by sources and corroboration is what should should sway opinion, not pop stars and billionaires)
Why would I care about your initial criticism but not your proposed course of action? I’m down to collaborate, give me a source.
Weird world where people respect the opinions of people they respect in general.
Wait, that’s not weird at all.
Go somewhere else 🤷
Oh, you respect swift? She has earned your respect? Lol. This million pop star, who you haven’t ever met, has earned your respect enough to convince you to vote a certain way?
You don’t hear how utterly ridiculous that sounds? Please tell me you understand how ridiculous that sounds…
I’m really trying here… I feel it’s a losing battle. I just want yall to use common sense…
Probably some delusional fantasy of revolution
Month old account that has spent its entire time on Lemmy being a contrarian asshole. Nothing of value to read here, folks.
Lol. Oh, I have opposing opinions, so I am a contrarian asshole? So you would like to silence any contrary opinions and just live in a liberal echo chamber?
I’m not surprised… it’s what people do here. Your views are so fragile that you can’t handle an opposing view.
I’m doing yall a favor here, I’m trying to expose yall to the other side of the arguments. I want you to understand the scope of things. Don’t hate on me brother.
Yes, like a monkey throwing shit exposes the surrounding victims to e coli, you are exposing us to your views. Thank you brother
Lol. Good one.
I have opposing opinions
Please do share some opposing opinions rather than just shitting on someone else daring to add their voice to the great chorus of democracy.
I’m sure everyone will have a lot of time to indulge your certainly well-informed and nuanced political opinions.
“The great chorus of democracy”…
Sorry if it just seems like im shitting on opinions, but like this, it’s just bad… this “great chorus of democracy” is called an echo chamber. It is a chorus. Everyone is reaffirming each other’s opinions with no one able to say contrary without ridicule and insults. No one with opposing views wants to be here because of this. Thus, it turns into an echo chamber.
I don’t think most here get out into the real world much because people here think the opinions shared here are shared by everybody… but no, the reinforced opinions here are not litmus test of reality.
I’m sure everyone will have a lot of time to indulge your certainly well-informed and nuanced political opinions.
I’m not inclined to take you up on that offer as it seems very disingenuous. I’m not going to express my political opinions so you and your crew can team up and harass me. I’ll give you this, our options for POTUS are pitiful. It nearly makes me sick, considering either as our next president. Having said that, Harris is a weak puppet. Biden was senile puppet. Between the 2 options, it sucks but I think Trump is the better choice. He isn’t going to end democracy or destroy America like dissenting voice claim. He’ll be in office for 4 years and then be gone. Thank God. Many Conservatives have shamed and disgraced the party by turning into the trump party.
Having said that, everything is going to be fine. With either candidate, there will be ups and down, but we’re going survive. America will be fine. Every needs to chill out, we need to quit with all the division and hate, that’s what they try to do, they try to divide us. It’s hard not to fall into it, I’m a victim of it myself. Anyway, I didn’t mean to rant. Let me just say that echo chambers are real and very bad. Like it or not, lemme is an echo chamber, reddit is an echo chamber. The dangerous part is not to understand that one is in an echo chamber. I believe most here don’t realize that they are in an echo chamber. Its unhealthy… anyway… geez. Sorry
Swift, 34, signed her post “Childless Cat Lady”
Well played, Tay Tay, well played.
Caption: Taylor Swift, wearing a black turtleneck, holding her dinner.
Many people say she was born in Haiti. Why won’t she show her birth certificate?
Haiti’s gonna hate hate hate
I’ll show her mine if she shows me hers first.
sir, close your trenchcoat, we’re talking about documents here
Oh certificate, I thought you meant mark.
Yes citizen, roll up your sleeve and show me your trump nft tattoo
Fun fact: genitals are jokingly referred to as documents in Brazil.
Pretty solid response, all things considered. I hope it resonates with new voters to register and be engaged since the older folks are far too entrenched to move the needle.
The cat is like “What is going on? Put me on my bed, I have to sleep”.
that cat looks actually really unbothered by what’s happening
That cat is drop-dead gorgeous.
It’s a Ragdoll!
Yeah well played, they got a bunch of millions for promoting politics and they are going to chill in their private jet and buy groceries with it. Have fun today working to death to afford rent and cheap food.
Cool whataboutism
That’s the reality
I cannot imagine being this mad about a win over Trump.
A post on the frontpage of lemmy with so many upvotes about a scummy pop celebrity endorsing the red and blue party is a lose for humanity and a win for any billionare or politician.
Yet it’s a loss for the billionaire-politician Trump… which is all that matters.
Not sure I’ve heard Swift described as “scummy” before.
And if you’re so against billionaires and politicians, why are you for the billionaire politician from the party who wants to cut taxes for billionaires, and not the candidate from a working class background who wants to increase taxes for billionaires?
Not sure I’ve heard Swift described as “scummy” before.
Scummy is a kind word for someone who fly his private jet to buy groceries. We are talking about one of the biggest polluting individual on the planet.
And if you’re so against billionaires and politicians, why are you for the billionaire politician from the party who wants to cut taxes for billionaires, and not the candidate from a working class background who wants to increase taxes for billionaires?
I’m neither for a billionare or for a genocide supporter. If you believe calling these out is showing them support you are probably a victim of their propaganda.
I don’t believe Swift buys her own groceries, or that anyone on her staff takes a jet to the grocery store. That’s just dumb.
I think it’s ridiculous that we have a system where someone can make billions singing songs while people providing essential functions have troubles making ends meet, but I haven’t heard any credible evidence that Swift exploits her staff.
a system where someone can make billions singing songs while people providing essential functions have troubles making ends meet
You just described how the exploitation works these days. By definition no billionare is kind: if you and me or the average person would turn into a billionare we would give so much money away that we wouldn’t be billionare anymore. A billion is more than 999 millions, imagine wanting more than that. Don’t expect anyone who seek that much wealth to be kind to others, their charity is the equivalent of the average person tipping 10 cents, probably less if you do the math.
Plane flights are tracked and public even for private jets, you can search for her rides. A quick search show they once did a minute flight to avoid a traffic jam…
They’ll say they aren’t for him, of course. But consequentially, they are.
If you vote and support people with blood on their hands you are directly evil. If you push a two side narrative when it clearly not you are misleading people
Ah, yes. “It was sarcasm.” Trump pulled that last night too.
If you didn’t like it then I meant something different and you just didn’t get it. Women love that response.
It’s gonna be brutal when she’s one-upped by er … Kid Rock.
No! Wait, Ted Nugent.
Yeah, suck it Swifters.
It’s over now right?
Nope. Go vote.
Agreed! And go register and plan your vote. Make a plan now. Especially in some states where there’s different degrees of voter suppression, you need to take extra steps to make sure you get your vote counted. There’s an army of MAGAts and right wing lawyers trying to stop certain voters, kick them off the voter rolls, or make up rules to keep you from voting. Don’t let them stop you.
I’m voting BLUE! Won’t you?
You relay on people who listen to popstars to vote instead of just making tiktoks about how they vote?
Cult of personality vs cult of personality.
Yep that’s how humans work
Nail, here is the coffin.
Friendly reminder - don’t stop and go vote.
This is not “breaking news” under any circumstances.
Glad she’s supporting kamala and using her influence, but that being said the celebrity worship nonsense is silly. Not breaking news.
Yeah, the fact that I keep seeing this as breaking, or important, news makes me want to break into a broadcast center and pull a “The Network”.
Unfortunately celebrity worship is influence, and influence is the key in elections. No influence, no vote. It is power. And the amount of influential power Taylor swift has is absolutely staggering. I wouldn’t be surprised if her endorsing kamala brings in tens if not hundreds of thousands of voters to register.
I’m skeptical that the kinds of people that would be swayed to vote for Kamala solely due to Taylor Swifts endorsement, are the kinds of people who see breaking news on NBC.
It’s not breaking news, which was my OP LOL. She could probably have the intended effect on tik tok and Twitter.
But still, I don’t really care, if it gets more votes against trump I’m all for it.
It ain’t breaking news though LOL. Putin launching a nuke is breaking news.
I mean she is probably the most popular pop star in the world, so I think it is breaking news if it helps the disenfranchised youth vote for Kamala over Trump.
Well, we are talking about a pop star with absolutely staggering amount of influence and reach, specifically with a young demographic. If she were able to motivate her fan-base to vote, that would be a huge deal.
Edit: Holy shit.
Look, I am not a billionaire loving guy anymore than some of you are.
But has anyone here considered that Musk has made an impact on the views of young white men (whom also happen to be Republican and Conservative or Proud Boys?
Does it bother us that these men follow a billionaire who doesn’t give two shits about them? Yes.
Do I care that Taylor Swift is the opposite of that and encourages young women and men, be it black, gay, trans, etc to be opposite end of that spectrum. Fuck yes, we shouldn’t base our views off the rich but has it ever occurred to anyone here that it is using those billionairs to represent and have them be vocal with the power they hold with our views instead?
I will absolutely take Taylor Swift speaking up and saying what she believes in and her giving that voice to 100000+ people whose only voice is heard in a vote if her speaking up also encourages people to say fuck Trump and and Musk and every fucking dumb ass on this post that thinks Taylor speaking out is a bad thing by comparison to it somehow being worse then what they already do with Musk.
Fuckem, fuck billionaires, but God damn keep fucking roasting them TSwiftie.
I’m not down with billionaires either, but at least she’s using her fame and money towards some good things.
It’s one of the very few ethical ways to become a billionaire I think. If you sell an album or book for $10, and you’re a global sensation, it’s reasonable you’ll get 100 million people buying it. It just falls on you then to use that money for his good reasons and adequately compensate people who support you. And Swift has generally been really good about that.
Yes, agreed. I do think overall that being a billionaire necessitates someone else (lots of someone elses) getting the shaft. But there are degrees of… billionairism, and she is on the right side of that, albeit still a billionaire.
I think overall that is very much so the case. This is the exception, not the norm.
every fucking dumb ass on this post that thinks Taylor speaking out is a bad thing by comparison to it somehow being worse then what they already do with Musk.
If your political opinion is swayed by either a pop star or a billionaire, you’re kinda a dumb ass. Full stop.
If only people were more logical and calm, like men! /s
Your political movement is impotent if it can’t seduce. Here’s an underrated short tube essay on the political power of bimbos: https://youtu.be/FeRIE6JDhCQ
Good thing dumbasses can’t vote…
I think you forgot the /s.
You’d be surprised.
… what? Are you serious? 80% of voters are dumb asses…
Nvm… I struggle without “/s”
It was sarcasm.
Oh… shwoosh. My bad sry.
That’s just how people work. Belief is social. We all value input from people we see as members of our in-group more than outsiders.
First, thank you for your comment without personal attacks, I’m getting torn up over here, but its me that is getting reported and comments removed for “incivility.”
Anyway, what you say is true, but I believe we need to be discerning with respect to our political influences and sources. I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong to consider the opinions of others (pop star or not), but it should not have the weight to sway our voting one way or the other
It’s almost like people have attributes other than their net worth.
If I had a platform that millions of people listened to (which I don’t), and strongly held beliefs about how the country could be made better for everyone (which I do), why wouldn’t I use my platform to share those beliefs? How could I not?
No one MUST obey what either of them says, just like no one would be compelled to obey me in my hypothetical. But I don’t really have a problem with any person using whatever platform they’ve found themselves with to express their own beliefs and desires. I don’t think people lose the right to free expression just because they are rich and/or famous and/or powerful.
Edit: And if you piss a lot of people off and lose all your advertisers because your opinions are repugnant and awful - well hey, that’s the choice you made.
Ironically, Taylor Swift was, up to this point, trying very hard NOT to use her platform. Just read her post. She’s BEGGING the reader not to blindly follow her in voting, and do their own research and make their own choice. She’d said she’d wait until after her tour to endorse a candidate (which would have been after the election 🤣 ), but she says in her post that the AI DeepFake Endorsement she ‘made’ of Trump compelled her to give up her secret ballot and outright state she’s voting for Harris.
Great point and apologies for glossing over that. I guess my reply just blurred into my general opinion about people dismissing or being grumpy about “celebrity” endorsements or political statements.
I hear ya. Yeah, I do agree with ‘you shouldn’t make a political opinion based on what a celebrity does,’ but the reality is that people might waiver until they hear someone they like and trust (like a celebrity) makes a decision. Sad fact of life in this popularity contest we call a political system. ;)
why wouldn’t I use my platform to share those beliefs?
I think it’s perfectly valid to say “the system that gave me this platform is unfair and I shouldn’t have benefited from it to the degree that I have, but I have the platform now so I’m going to use it for good.”
Can’t wait for Trump’s reaction. I guess the pictures of support for him were fake, huh?
No shit.
As fake as his blonde spray over his 78 year old gray hair
Very doubtful that that’s even his real hair at this point.
my queen
Her statement was impeccable. She mentioned the AI generated fake image which appeared three weeks ago. This is the response that had to be made by her. She signed it Childless Cat Lady. Perfect.
I’d bet my left testicle all these millionaire and billionaire celebrities are actually voting Republican… they’re just too afraid of the backlash to admit it… lol.
Instead of letting Trump pick the time, she picked the time that hurt him the most.
Perfect. Now she’ll do a voter registration drive.
Also if you’ve been sitting on a donation for Harris between now and the next 24 hours will give Harris another big news cycle bump.
Puttin your money where your Kamouth is
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I’m not sure an insult from a 20 minute old account is going to sting very much. Nice try, tho. I’d give your trolling attempt a solid 4/10.
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