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Swift, 34, signed her post “Childless Cat Lady”

Well played, Tay Tay, well played.

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Caption: Taylor Swift, wearing a black turtleneck, holding her dinner.

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Many people say she was born in Haiti. Why won’t she show her birth certificate?

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27 points

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.

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The cat is like “What is going on? Put me on my bed, I have to sleep”.

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21 points

that cat looks actually really unbothered by what’s happening

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7 points

That cat is drop-dead gorgeous.

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2 points

It’s a Ragdoll!

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39 points
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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.

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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.

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35 points

Cool whataboutism

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-34 points

That’s the reality

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21 points

I cannot imagine being this mad about a win over Trump.

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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.

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208 points

Wow, Trump is having a really bad day.

It’s delightful.

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They own a skyscraper in new york and have enough wealth to afford all sort of commodities. The average person is going to have a much worst day and it’s not delightful.

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I dunno if Trump can enjoy his skyscraper from prison. With a windowed cell, maybe.

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Ah yes the criminal who is soon to be president is going to jail any day now. Just you wait, any day.

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-28 points

Politicians don’t go to jail

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They “own” a skyscraper in new york and have enough wealth debt to afford have someone else pay for all sort of commodities

You made a few factual errors there, I took the liberty of fixing it

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4 points

Could you be more triggered?

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3 points

And he had all that before he got all this bad news about his only chance to avoid accountability.

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And its Joever.

Was honestly never any doubt Taylor would support Kamala. She is pretty publicly Liberal with a capital L and tends to care about things like autonomy for women and all those crazy things. She probably would have stayed quiet for ticket sales but then the trump campaign deep faked her and…

Said it before and I’ll say it again. If you have to fuck with a frothing at the mouth fandom? Go after k-pop before you go after T-swizzle.

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And in case anyone isn’t aware and is taking advice from this post, don’t fuck with K-pop. They’ll fuck you up.

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Oh. K-pop stans will fuck your shit up and destroy any online infrastructure you have.

Swifties will fuck your shit up, burn down your home with you inside it, and piss on the ashes. All while their parents (and randos who got Swifty pilled by stuff like The Fall Guy) are grooving in the street and waving off hte cops.

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She probably would have stayed quiet for ticket sales but then the trump campaign deep faked her and…

She might have done something more subtle like she did with Joe Biden cookies 4 years ago. I agree, in this case she had no choice but to share her opinion loud and clear.

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Shit I wouldn’t go after K pop or the Beehive either.

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12 points

8 believe they call themselves the “Beyhive”

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Idk, the recent pic of her chummy day/night out with Brittany Mahomes planted quite a bit of doubt for me. There was a lot of speculation after those pictures released that she’d come out for Kamala, to get ahead of any backlash.

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34 points

Just being nice to the wife of her boyfriend’s buddy, not asking him to turn away from his friends, even if they’re fools. As my daughter said, those football guys get hit in the head a lot…

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I personally think the company you choose to keep says a lot about you. There’s being polite with your partner’s friends and then there’s being all over someone like a bestie. It’s amazing how well her PR machine works that she gets white knighted so much, even on Lemmy. May I remind everyone that she is a billionaire and didn’t get to be one accidentally. She’s just as bad as the rest of them, she just pays people to make her seem not as threatening, and it’s clearly working based on all the free defense she gets on the internet.

She’s not your friend. Arguably, she’s Brittany Mahome’s friend.

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-35 points

They waited for the contract

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9 points

She wouldn’t bother with the pennies they could afford to pay her.

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-7 points

Billionares are money addicts with a mental disorder, they would still lower themself even for 50 dollars. Being endorsed by the establishment is how you become a pop star and how your albums magically top more skilled artists than you.

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2 points

She’s a billionaire you dolt.

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Couldn’t give two shits about all these Pop Star positions. I do delight in this specific one because Trump’s campaign fucked with her, and drew a line in the sand with regard to Generative AI bullshit in a campaign.

They deserve all the negative press that comes from this, and much more. I don’t care for Taylor Swift, but I like this move.

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It’s the Hive Mind Stans phenomenon that fascinates me, meme-activated collective action that is a very modern social body.

Some of the stuff BTS ARMY got up to was fantastic and a bit scary. Also large numbers. Very large.

So the Swifties haven’t been weaponized yet. But they could be, soon. Having deepfake A.I. impersonation of fans made by fascist followers of a reality TV star be the thing that raises their state of collective power to Ready is just… well, I am living in a Gibson novel.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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I’m not down with billionaires either, but at least she’s using her fame and money towards some good things.

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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.

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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.

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It’s almost like people have attributes other than their net worth.

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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.

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20 points

Good thing dumbasses can’t vote…

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I think you forgot the /s.

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You’d be surprised.

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… what? Are you serious? 80% of voters are dumb asses…

Nvm… I struggle without “/s”

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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.

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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

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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

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