It’s because the GOP knows that more voters means they lose. Centrists don’t exist. There’s no middle ground between Ds and Rs anymore.
No one is 50/50 on Trump.
VOTE
Centrists do exist and will always exist. Regardless how bad or good things are.
The problems is both sides have at least 1 great and 1 terrible policy or stance.
We need more sizeable parties options, or at least vote for them.
That way people can vote for parties that best fits them.
Note: voting for the lesser of two evils, won’t solve the problem. Just make things worse overall. We can all see that
As long as the US continues to use first past the post for voting on these things, voting for the lesser of two evils is the only actual option we have. Voting independent in these races is effectively throwing your vote away at best.
The problems is both sides have at least 1 great and 1 terrible policy or stance.
Well, first off there’s 3 "sides.
- Conservatives (almost all Republicans)
- Moderates (mostly Dems)
- Progressive (all dem, but not all Dems)
I’d love to hear what you think is great about 1 or terrible from 3.
Those moderates tho…
Their entire deal is just staying the same distance from 1 and 3, regardless of how illogical that is.
Name one great Republican policy.
Honest question, what’s the great policy that Republicans have enacted?
Withdrew from Afghanistan
You mean that thing that Biden did?
It happened under his watch, but the terms of everything were setup by Trump. Which is also why it was a gigantic fuckup.
That counts as a policy? I don’t think an individual action count as a policy. Unless the policy is “leaving any occupied territory”, but that’s not a policy of neither party.
There was also the whole thing where leaving Afghanistan was an operational disaster due to timelines put in by the Republicans who made that decision.
There are tons of people who don’t know anything about political ideology that are 50/50 on Trump.
Prove it. The numbers from the 2016 and 2020 election say entirely different.
as if anything that happens on this world at this point is natural. 'side from fuckin, ain’t nothin.
Oh thank god. Republicans are gonna piss off the Swifties.
this may be the thing that topples the gop
I really dislike all the attention Taylor Swift gets, but if this is what does it I will become a lifelong Swiftie.
I just don’t get it. I must be missing something really important about what makes her stand out as different from any other guitar-playing radio pop woman singer-songwriter since the early 2000’s. Why didn’t Michelle Branch get as popular? I don’t dislike her, just not my taste I guess.
Better media relations? No idea. She’s not that much better than other artists but her popularity and media saturation is freaking annoying.
You shouldn’t let it bother you. Life is too short. Just ignore it.
I heard she was carrying Tupac’s love child.
TIL opinions+ talent + marketing = psyop.
Is every political campaign a psyop too?
Wait till these guys hear about advertising
When it’s detrimental to the republican party, yes.
The right is free to have kid Rock or whatever loser they have on their side, do the same things Taylor is doing, if they’re so concerned. Except all she’s doing is encouraging people to vote, which as we all know is bad for Republicans
I didn’t know he was still active.
You’re forgetting that if a woman does it its a psyop
More specifically if a woman they don’t like does it. They like her in theory because she’s white and attractive and straight and Christian and got her start as a country singer, but then she had to go and have opinions about things, so now she’s a commie who’s destroying America, or something.
Idk it seems pretty reliant on carbon chemistry. There’s people involved and everything.
While I don’t think it is some sort of stupid political conspiracy, I do think that she is being advertised/shilled a crazy amount.
It feels like it blew up in less than a year. She’s fucking everywhere now.
Edit: to the fans (or Swifties or whatever you want to be called), I’m in no way talking shit about her. I’m simply pointing out that she’s in the news a lot. Stop PM’ing me bullshit. I also don’t care about your downvotes.
Thank fuck I’m not in the US. After being outside for so long, I think the advertisement-atmosphere would send me to suicide.
Very easy to ignore all the ads. I tune them out completely.
She re-did and re-released a couple albums this year, had a massive worldwide tour, which she had filmed. The movie made $100,000,000 on opening weekend and is the highest-grossing concert film ever. She’s doing an awful lot of stuff this year, so of course she’s getting a lot of coverage.
She also managed to completely sidestep the entire multiple Hollywood strikes issue by the simple expedient of meeting with the unions, asking them what they wanted, and saying, “Okay, you got it.”
Yep. I’m not a fan of the billionaire class in general since I don’t think anyone should be allowed to be that rich, but she actually seems to do right by her workers, which is a hell of a lot more than you can say for most of them.
Most Billionaires don’t earn their wealth. Taylor Swift has earned her wealth.
Disagree there. “Earned” implies “deserved.” No one deserves to be that rich no matter how talented or popular.
Definitely a debatable subject, but if there was a line of billionaire to start taking away “earned” income, she wouldn’t be at the front. Plenty of others that are far less “worthy”, depending on how the debate of worth goes.
Earned because she worked for it herself and overcame some huge barriers. Let’s not forget what happened when she won her first Grammy. She stuck it out and built up her brand, her way. That takes incredible dedication and willpower. Now she is doing a 3 hour nonstop huge stadium show around the world while maintaining a high profile relationship with Travis Kelce. Yeah, she earned it.
Nope. No one earns a billion dollars. I don’t care what they overcame or how hard they worked. There are many people who overcame far worse things and worked much harder than she ever will and are barely making ends meet.
She did not earn it and she does not deserve it.
And if you don’t think a significant portion of that billion isn’t from investments, you don’t know how the billionaire class works.
Redefining words and then doubling down on them to bolster your opproprium? I believe that’s what the kids call a classic reddit move.
It strikes close to the denial of reality you see from these right wing conspiracy enjoyers as well.👍
I mean, I would say that it’s far more ethical than most billionaires. She didn’t exploit workers, she performed and the populace gave her the money willingly. It’s as ethical as one can get in the modern day where no person can participate in society without benefiting from exploitation. And as far as I can tell from some half-assed searching, her investments are in property, but not in the landlord sense. She owns rich people property. Mansions and jets and shit.
I my personal opinion, musicians seem like the most ethical rich people in terms of how they got their money. They get exploited by the music industry early on, but money primarily comes from ticket and merch sales, which people choose to spend their money on in support of the artist. People hate capitalism, but forget what it is they hate about it and just start hating the money, forgetting why it’s bad- the exploitation.
In particular, her tour was a massive three hour retrospective covering her entire career rather than being focused on one new album. Combine that with a few re-recordings of old albums and her successfully getting a new generation of Gen Z fans and you’ve got one very popular star.
Yo harddaysknoght, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Taylor Swift has been in the industry a long time… A long time!
I know that. I’m saying the coverage she’s getting is nowhere near any other artist
She’s been a top-selling artist with a huge fan base for years now.
Oh I’m not saying she isn’t. I know she’s been around a while. But you don’t see any other artist with the amount of publicity she’s getting is my point.
Definitely. She’s a capitalist’s dream. See creates scarcity with her albums and merch, forcing frenzied buying and price scalping. She’s a prolific polluter and her dad bought her success.
Now any criticism of her actions and business practices are met with her fans calling you a conservative or a misogynist because capitalism has melted their brains.
Every thread
The right thinks what?
Incorrect. The right does not “think.” There was no thought or any brain activity from the right involved here.
proceeds to spin carnival wheel of 4chan conspiracies
“Taytay” is actually popular among the 4chan crowd.
T-Anon
“I’m not gonna write you a love song eh? Clearly an attack on the nuclear family.”
Lazy projection. The Trump campaign was already literally part of Russian PsyOps a decade ago.
Exactly.
C’mon now, we all know the primary thrust of their attacks/defenses is always “I know you are, but what am I?”. By far the most common. It’s used like half the time.
Isn’t it more "I know I am, but what are you?
No. If you call one corrupt or a liar for instance, they will not say anything like “I know I am.”
Trump says things like that all the time and gets away with it. At this point he might as well go ahead and murder that kid in the middle of Park Avenue, his followers will say it shows he’s strong, and what about Hunter Biden!?
True. I would say he’s atypical though, most of them don’t act like that. He’s a trailblazer, is what that man is.
Yeah, usually they say the Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. But he stepped off that path long ago and is forging a new Trail To Hell over a mountain of fraud, grift, sexual assault, and fascist thugbootery.
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I thought the Dixie Chicks got in hot water for speaking out against GWB? Or is it some other artist/group that I’m thinking of?
No you’re right. Sixie chicks spoke out against war and got a lot of backlash.
I don’t think you remember it very clearly lol
Wasn’t that 24 yrs ago before his election in Nov 1999?
You need to shake your memory box. It’s broken.
they blame everything they cannot understand on a conspiracy, because they are cowards
While I don’t listen to her stuff intentionally, I do enjoy her tunes for the most part that I’ve heard. I also recognize her talent and influence.
I think it’s really wonderful for her to encourage her fans to register to vote…
The more people who vote the harder it is to maintain minority rule.
There is seriously no end to the insane bullshit people like this think of. I couldn’t have thought of this if I tried spending hours thinking of the most ridiculously dumb theory possible.
The Democrat party can’t even advertise when Biden does a good thing properly. You think they’re smart and organised enough to run a sophisticated psyop like that?
The enemy is both strong and weak.
Swift is a force of good, as much as any insanely rich person can be. She alone may end up responsible for tens of thousands of young women registering to vote between now and election day. One of her Instagram posts drove 35,000 voter registrations. Republicans have every reason to fear the Swiftie factor.
Yeah. She’s measured with it too. One of the reasons her sway is so strong imo, is she just saved it up for a long time. So when she finally asks a fan “hey could you do this one little thing for me?” it almost feels like “uh, yeah, I’ve known you my whole life Taylor, of course.”
Which the fan doesn’t “know her” per se, but between a musician and a huge fan, it definitely feels like you do. It’s a personal relationship, a little different from most other fandoms. Music is just odd that way.
I would say that Princess Diana would be a comparison.
Personally, I like Swift because she has legs for days. I’ll vote for that reason alone.
I would also do anything those legs asked of me.
