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[–] 295 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Haters are gonna hate hate hate hate hate.

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    [+] 246 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 168 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Smart cookie undersells it dramatically. Taylor Swift is a marketing and possibly a financial genius who has locked herself into the collective consciousness of the country. I used to try to not listen to her music at all, but my daughter and wife absolutely love her, so it's all I get to listen to around them. She's had virtually 0 truly bad press surrounding her. You don't have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.

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  • [–] 94 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If nothing else, she is an incredible business woman.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    She is also an extremely talented musician and entertainer. I am not even a fan, just acknowledging that she has put out solidly constructed music and tours for well over a decade and is clearly far more than just a fad.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You don't have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.

    Actually this is a point of conflict for some of her fans. Some of my friends are swifties and they hate consumerism and high concert prices and collectibles and marketing that incentivize FOMO to spend more money. They jokingly call her their capitalist queen.

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    [–] 195 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    By all means GOP, please pick a fight with Taylor Swift. 🍿🍿

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    [–] 190 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    He fumed in another all-caps post that "THE CHILDLESS, UNMARRIED ABORTION ARMY MOBILIZED BY BARBIE, TAYLOR SWIFT, AND TIKTOK" was "CRUSHING REPUBLICANS AT THE BALLOT BOX."

    You are goddamn right it is.

    I am inevitable.

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    [–] 171 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    conservatives once again upset that more people are voting.. because reality has a liberal bias.

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  • [–] [S] 103 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Yep, if "more people voting" makes you furious then you just might be reaching the level of mustache-twirling cartoon villainy.

    Don't want to keep losing elections, conservatives? Adopt better policies. Nominate qualified candidates. And for fuck sake kick out the god damn nazis.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago

    I would be interested to hear that they officially adopted any policies at all, it seems to be, "elect more of us so there are more of us so we can continue to try to elect more of us" the last person from the right wing I heard try to push a policy while running for office died 5 years ago

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  • [–] 145 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    GOP for the last 40 years: destroys the climate, job market, economy, education, and healthcare

    “Did Taylor Swift do this?”

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    [–] 131 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Being upset that people were encouraged vote is admitting your ideas rely on suppression.

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    [–] 124 points 2 years ago (23 children)

    Well, after all it couldn't POSSIBLY their horrific policies, or their proud racism, or thier proud nationalism, or their hate for the LGBTQIA+, or their stance of abortion, or birth control, or wanting to outlaw divorce, or them wanting to leave people starving in the streets.
    No, it must be some other thing causing their losses.

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    [–] 124 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Kirk continued: "All the Swifties want is swift abortion. That's what they want. It's 100%."

    i’m fucking crying how do you say this shit and look yourself in the mirror after

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    [–] 109 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Taylor Swift is going to come out in the presidential election and she is going to mobilize her fans," Kirk warned his viewers on Wednesday, adding, "And we're going to be like, 'Oh wow, where did all these young, female voters come from?' We better have a plan for that."

    Kirk acknowledging a) the party does not attempt to represent young women and b) the current plan is that they hopefully just don't vote.

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, the current plan is not that "they hopefully just don't vote." The plan is to actively prevent them from voting through various forms of suppression. They're not just sit around waiting to see what happens.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    TBH, actively trying to suppress voters isn't even the worst of it. The next step is making sure that it doesn't even matter if they do.

    You know, like they already do. Source: Am in Ohio. There are already public statements from officials that they are trying to dilute/overrule/ignore the results of our vote to legalize abortion and weed. And that's even outside things like gerrymandering.

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    [–] 101 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This quote from Posobiec is amazing:

    "Republicans still haven't internalized that the Left promotes abortion as a pro-feminism issue. They aren't voting to kill babies, they're voting bc of feminist movies like Barbie and pop stars like Taylor Swift influencing an army of voters," Posobiec wrote.

    If they are surprised about the connection between the abortion issue and women's rights... wow. Are they really racking their brains to figure out why "killing babies" is a popular position? How stupid are these people?

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    [–] 99 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    "Am I so out of touch?

    No, its the women who are wrong."

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  • [–] 86 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It couldn't possibly be because of a heinously corrupt and out of touch platform that promises to hurt some people and help nobody, could it?

    No. It's the Swifties who are to blame. Encouraging people to vote is liberal bias!

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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Or, now hear me out here, maybe it's just the fact that people have noticed that they overtly hate women and are nuttier than squirrel shit.

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    [–] 68 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    My conservative neighbor is convinced in a conspiracy theory that TSwifty dating Travis Kelce is a scheme to get people to get the COVID vaccine. I wish I was joking, but he's 100% serious.

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't they know you don't piss off Taylor Swift fans?

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Her music is mid but if she manages to shift the electorate left even a few degrees I’ll be the biggest Swiftie ever. As a 45 year old divorced guy I realize this will be incredibly creepy but it’s worth it.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago*

    Oh she's absolutely shifted it. Telling people to register to vote, to go vote. She's had an impact.

    It's really interesting too. If I remember right, she said in a pandemic era interview that she was told to not go political in country music. She came to realize though she needed to say something -- she was rather disturbed by the far right claiming her as an Aryan goddess or something. A gay friend of hers also encouraged her to use her platform to promote gay rights.

    Long story short though, she's realized the importance of speaking out, and her newer songs talk about gender norms and how she's expected to be a wife and all that. She's a really interesting person!

    And I'm a 29 year old dude, just accept the Swiftness into your soul

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As a 45 year old divorced guy I realize this will be incredibly creepy but it’s worth it.

    It wouldn't really be that weird if you became a Swiftie lol. I think a lot of people who aren't already fans of Taylor Swift may be forgetting she's been famous for almost twenty years... Most (but not all) people attending the Eras tour and going to see the concert movie are millennial women in their 30s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swifties#Demographics

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago

    Must be hard losing to a millennial woman, i mean no alpha points there.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Taylor Swift shit in my pants, drank all of my wife's skim milk, and told my boss to fuck off after forgetting I had a presentation on Monday. How or why she keeps doing these things to me, I'll never no know.

    Ffs, she's even putting typos in my Lemmy posts!

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    [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    She's here in Argentina on a triple full stadium event, she endorsed not to vote for the libertarian world bank puppet with neonazi rhetoric, in the elections to her millions of fans, now swiftties and kpop fan joined forces against the new fascist movement

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Go against the most popular pop star witha huge and very active fanbase, I'm sure that'll be a winning strategy.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago*

    It's appropriate that the GOP and their ilk were quite happy to harm the careers of the Dixie Chicks for speaking out against them and that they should then allegedly suffer negative consequences at the hands of another singer.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago*

    Whining about being beat up by a woman sounds like a low-T problem to me.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    pretty sure there's more taylor swift fans than republicans at this point.

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