Fantasy universe: Taylor Swift and Biden announce her support of his campaign and acceptance of the position of Vice President. Trump really finds out that he is not as popular as Taylor Swift.
I don't think so, and last time she said it because they asked her in an interview.
TSwift is frankly a large enough celebrity that saying anything political could easily cost her millions of dollars, so while I do kinda wish she'd say things I agree with I also recognize that there's really no incentive for her to do so.
They all do this. Pretty much all celebrities endorse the Democrat politicians because it looks better for them. It looks like they're "just one of us!" When in fact, they are not. Taylor Swift was born into wealth, and does not need to worry about who's President...it will never effect her. But by endorsing the side of the "poor" and "common working class"...she gets even more positive publicity..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
