One of the weirdest things about American culture is celebrity support for political parties.
I mean I get why it’s done, but where I live pop culture idols usually don’t do political recommendations. It’s considered crass.
This stuff makes me really wonder, how much Americans really believe whatever the rightwings are peddling… On Twitter they’re now peddling all the time this „great replacement“ stuff and that illegal immigrants will vote for Biden(???). Do they really believe that and does a big chunk of Americans believe that?
Yes a lot of Americans believe those things, because there is an entire economic sector devoted to telling Republicans what they want to hear, presented as news/facts.
These are fearful people.
We all seek information that confirms our biases, and conservatives are ruled by their fear, largely of the other: People that don’t look or act like what they consider normal and safe. They don’t want to hear its their employer’s greed that’s been screwing them for decades and ruining their community’s commons for tax breaks, that would make them feel foolish. They want to hear about how all their problems are caused by the people that don’t look or act like them, be it race or the people they think dress wrong to them.
Simple explanations for simple, fearful people. The world and it’s many crises are obviously more complex than those false, blatant scapegoating explanations of “Them poor brown immigrant people caused inflation!” but confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. They like ms blonde “news” anchor telling them their impulse of clutching their purse or re-locking their car door in the presence of urban people was completely valid.
“Gubmit” killed me
Unless there’s new news (heh) she didn’t endorse Biden recently. She just said to register to vote.
I know, I just think it’s ridiculous and funny at their expense that something as historically common, mundane, and benign as An American celebrity even potentially making an endorsement has become a vast conspiracy to Republicans, especially considering they literally vote in celebrities to be President.
So it’s somehow wrong for a celebrity to weigh in with their opinion on politics, but feel free to run for the role of most powerful politician of all? I know they have no such logic or rationality, but it’s still funny when they exercise their nonsensical world view for all to see unironically.
*endorsed the one candidate who’s not a fascist conman, rapist, and overall piece of shit human being. Yeah, weird, must be a conspiracy!
I’ll never forgive Biden for the draconian shit he spearheaded in the 90s as a Senator. I consider him to be a piece of shit human being. That said, he’s Steve Rogers compared to Trump and he has my enthusiastic vote as least worst by by leaps and bounds.
Eh…Steve Rogers is taking it a bit far.
Maybe Scott Lang. Or Clint Barton.
