For people who hate being told what to do, they sure love telling people what to do.
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They love telling women what to do.
They hate women telling others what to do.
They always say this stuff to liberal celebrities, but invite Ted Nugent and other absolute POS conservatives on
Sonny Bono, Arnold, Glenn Jacobs, Reagan, Trump... I think I'm forgetting some.
Republicans love voting for celebrities when they have the chance.
Charleton Heston, Kelsey Grammar, Scott Baio, Clint Eastwood, Kid Rock, Ted Nugent...
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I, for one, am keenly interested in Kid Rock's opinion on the role of central banking in a post-pandemic economy. /s
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Vote.gov is your place to sign up to vote.
Make sure you're actually registered, even if you think you already are. A lot of states have been "cleaning up" their voting registries .
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I mean seriously, she's not qualified like a reality tv con man, to be involved in politics!
Yeah, plus she's actually, like, good at business. Conservatives would prefer the guy who managed to bankrupt a casino.
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Let me get this straight, you think that Taylor Swift, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in the world, is secretly a liberal, who spends her nights fucking an NFL star, and your plan is to intimidate this person?
Good luck.
I read that in Morgan Freeman's voice and didn't even know why until the end.
Hey Fox, I'm not a Taylor Swift fan at all, but I trust her infinitely more than your lying fascist bullshit network.
Why are they allowed to give their opinion on politics but she isn't? Why are they qualified and not her?
She has a brain, they jusy read whatever is on the teleprompter
They are both in the entertainment industry. Neither are qualified
Why does being an entertainer disqualify you from expressing a political opinion?
No First Amendment rights for her, that's why.
She's liberal, and a successful woman. Their two greatest fears
Wish they had this same attitude towards Ted “fucks pre teens” Nugent
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Taylor Swift is absolutely not the person that the GOP wants saying "Hold my beer and watch this.....". If they pissed her off enough to motivate her to get political, she absolutely has the influence and resources to register a few thousand new Democrat Swifties.
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Pretty fucking rich that their chosen savior is a reality TV star.
And before that, the darling of the GOP was former actor Ronald Reagan...
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Taylor Swift to Fox News: "Don't get involved in journalism...oh wait"
Don't worry, Fox hasn't engaged in journalism in years.
They are terrified of her influence.
This has less to do with Swift and more to do with Fox's decades long strategy to keep misogynists angry with successful women and engaged with Fox news.
well I wasn’t going to, but now that you mention it…
She hasn't done or said anything political though? Is it just that she's a vivacious person and the ghouls are thinking "fuck, she's definitely not one of us".
She did endorse the Democrat running for Senate in Tennessee in 2018, so they're not wrong
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Or else what, exactly?
Fox Corp.'s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems says that Fox should stop libeling. There are plenty of other lawsuits to point out that say the same thing.
If what Fox claimed were true, they would have won the lawsuit. If what Fox claimed were not provably, knowingly lies, Fox would have won.
I always side with the person who speaks truth, who fights lies.
Has she even said shit at this point or all the morons just going off the handle for no reason?
She endorsed Biden last election, but that doesn't mean they're not going off the handle for no reason.
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Have you tried grabbing her by the pussy?
LOL. Fuck off, Fox. She will do what she wants to do because she's a woman capable of making her own decisions. Not that you would ever understand or appreciate.
Uhg. can you imagine standing in line waiting to vote, with the swifties all having their favorite songs on blast from the phones?
never thought that would be a reason I'd appreciate vote-by-mail.
(I'm mostly kidding... but yeah. not having to stand in line and deal with...uh... people... is nice.)
And it's ok for something claiming to be a "news source" to be political?
EVERYONE is involved in politics, what the hell do they even mean? Politics affect everyone. It's not like people choose to be involved, they are, even if they don't like it.
How much Fox News cost and can she afford it?
I gotta say that it's pretty fucking refreshing to see this "celebrities need to stay out of politics" being rejected after it was more or less accepted in the 00s. Reality is pivoting faster than Fox is as old tactics die.
I've also noticed that the condescendingly polite subtle insults are starting to get old and recognized as just normal insults because the subtlety has disappeared.
Also the "ask questions" tactic from How to Win Friends and Influence People is getting more push back rather than leading people to different conclusions, though that one isn't as nice to see because when that worked, it was usually for a good reason but it just being dismissed means one less way people in disagreement can come to agree. But it is an interesting evolution in the way we communicate and interact that I've noticed lately.
Though those last two might just be due to the different demographic at Lemmy vs Reddit.
Though those last two might just be due to the different demographic at Lemmy vs Reddit.
This site definitely isn't representative of much if you're using it to speak to larger cultural trends or something. It's definitely not an indicator of those.
I have a theory of my own though. I think that pop culture is dying as a thing in general. I think social media platforms are more widely recognized as the societal ill that they are, broadcast / cable TV is largely dead, movies are moving from the cinemas to streaming services in record time, Internet streaming apps killed the radio star, etc. etc.
Everyone tunes into their own shows, their own music, their own movies, their own books, their own cultural experiences, their own news, and even their own realities.
I think we're living through an era where mainstream popular culture is getting devoured by software platforms and disparate experiences and the output is more and more that everyone's in the "long tail" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail) being exposed only to things that sit in personalized niches.
"That's our job", they added.
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