Fox News: You're not playing fair!
Fox News: :: gets bodied by Swift's Superbowl ratings, sheer size of fanbase ::
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Wow, they have fucking lost the plot.
"That's our job", they added.
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.
Something tells me that the Kelce family does NOT lean too Left...
Something tells me they might start to after this.
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.
That wad last round, jas she said anything about this election?
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.
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.
Wish they had this same attitude towards Ted “fucks pre teens” Nugent
And Kid Rock. And Gene Simmons.
Did Ted and Don Henley ever preform together?
Or the former Apprentice reality TV star
"Star" is going a little to far, boated host seems more accurate
Pretty fucking rich that their chosen savior is a reality TV star.
Yeah, but their game show host has an R next to his name.
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And before that, the darling of the GOP was former actor Ronald Reagan...
Damn it. Thats a really good point.
Why are they allowed to give their opinion on politics but she isn't? Why are they qualified and not her?
She's liberal, and a successful woman. Their two greatest fears
No First Amendment rights for her, that's why.
They are both in the entertainment industry. Neither are qualified
Why does being an entertainer disqualify you from expressing a political opinion?
She has a brain, they jusy read whatever is on the teleprompter
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.
If they're lucky it'll only be a few, and honestly at this point these prophesors (lol) have probably fulfilled themselves by now.
She's also not a church, and short of any electioneering, this would be completely legal to do.
A few thousand seems pretty small
If I remember the statistic correctly, 30,000 new registrants within the first hour after she posted about registering to vote.
Even if we assume a rate of decay, that is pretty significant.
Then its at least 10 of thousands possibly more!
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.
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.
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