*Football team that’s been a dominant presence in the league for the last several seasons wins AFC Championship again and will be returning to the Super Bowl*
Conservatives: TAYLOR SWIFT DID THIS TO GET JOE BIDEN REELECTED!!!1!!
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Plus Taylor Swift who has been immensely popular for like...What, over a decade now? Only now suddenly wielding her influence to run the government or something? Please, she's rich, popular, and in business, she basically operates as her own independent nation without needing to run anyone else's. 😂
She turns 35 just before the next president takes office, meaning this is the first election she could legally become president. Coincidence???
Absolutely a coincidence. This is all a marketing stunt, but the conspiracies have been fun to read.
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She's also been doing get out the vote/voter registration campaigns since at least 2018. She has officially endorsed multiple Democrats in the past, including Biden in the general election in 2020. None of this is new or a secret. Conservatives think they have uncovered some grand plot though. Like Taylor Swift needs the NFL and she wouldn't have any publicity or influence without it. If anything it's probably the opposite, with NFL trying to use Taylor Swift to boost their own popularity more.
I heard NPR say that she's brought in roughly $300 million to the NFL because so many more women are now watching
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Well she did dare to encourage her fans to vote! And that's obviously anti-democratic or something.
She's obviously a witch /s
they’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one
These people are unhinged.
🌍👨🚀🔫🧑🏻🚀always have been.
i feel like society as a whole would improve greatly if they just, you know, didn't exist. it's almost as if we stand on the verge of a complete global catastrophe and the only way to resolve it is to get rid of them all. entirely.
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It bothers me so much to know how stupid I am and also know there are so many people even stupider than me.
Think for a moment how stupid the average person is...Then realise that half the population is dumber than that. - George Carlin
The problem is that most people overestimate the average person too.
So it's more like "imagine the average person, and realize around 70% of the population is dumber than that."
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"Everything I don't like is woke, or a psyop, or SJW, or liberal, or socialist, or..."
WTF? She probably has more fans than the NFL and these morons think she’s getting signal boosted?
Obviously this is a psyop to boost awareness that the Chiefs exist.
Are...are they trying to start something with the Swifties? Because I'm pretty sure Y'all-Quaeda is no match for them, and I'm here for it!
if there's any side likely to win a civil war in the US its the swifties. If she told her fans to get guns they would.
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Oh no. Please don't target Taylor Swift. Oh gosh. Conservatives, this will just ruin everything for all other people. You can't do this. Her like bazillion fans are definitely too young to vote. Ah. No. Stop.
Let's say it's all true. Who gives a fuck? Endorsements have been a thing forever.
Do they want to burn her at the stake for witch craft like it's fucking 1724 because she's controlling people's minds and stealing their ~~erections~~ elections?
Do they want to burn her at the stake for witch craft like it's fucking 1724
That is a bit further down the path they've started down with criminalising abortion. They've got to decriminalise violence against women before they can actually start burning them. They're getting there, though.
MAGA has chosen the wrong boogeyman this time.
I didn't expect the revolution to be led by tween pop fans, but I remember middle school.
Vicious.
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There's gonna be three sides to the next civil war: secede, stay, and the swifties; and the swifties are going to have the largest army. I don't know why they think picking this fight is in any way intelligent.
Political brain rot being inserted into everything now days, exhausting.
So....talk to me like I'm a MAGA moron with less brain cells than teeth and a family tree that doesn't always fork in all the right places.
What's the problem here? Seriously. Even if Taylor Swift were personally touring the country, knocking on every single door, and telling people to vote for Biden. So? Isn't that what their staffers should also be doing so they can get re-elected? So what if she stands on the podium if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl and says that everybody in the stadium and watching at home should vote for Biden?
Like at what point does it cross from the political activism that thousands of people across the country engage in all the time to some kind of "psyop" (side note: This is the stupidest term I have ever heard, by the way), "election interference", or whatever other term they can come up with to imply what she's doing is illegal?
Are they scared that Taylor Swift commands a bigger audience than Trump? Are they worried about millions of Swifties marching in lockstep to the ballot box to vote for Biden? Are they really all that concerned because a celebrity who has so far shown absolutely no desire even dip a toe into that political shitstorm might say something that might cause people to vote for Biden?
Are these people seriously getting all worked up over a celebrity who has shown no desire to give political commentary at all simply because she might endorse Biden? Or is this another situation where they're pre-emptively setting Taylor Swift of all people up as the person to blame if Trump loses? Last time he did this, he said that everything is rigged and that's the only way he could lose. Is the party really setting up for a round 2 where they blame Taylor fucking Swift?
Because that's not going to work out for them. Taylor Swift is probably one of the biggest celebrities in the country right now, maybe only rivalled by people like the Rock. And that's a hell of a maybe. Do they think pissing off a shit-ton of Swifties in red states is going to work? Fucking LOL. Try that and they'll be lucky if all that happens is a few purple states go blue. Swifties are not going to be abandoning Taylor Swift on the word of Donald fucking Trump.
I hope she continues to make all the things happen that pisses them off.
She is a woman. She is smart. She has a platform. She tells people to vote. She is the absolute worst in the eyes of fascists.
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We should consider it a faux pas for a news organization to report on the punditry of other news org that is "two steps below it".
If nbcnews wants to cover something "conservatives" are saying, they shouldn't reach deep. They should consider the twitter account End Wokeness to be so far beneath it that reporting on it directly should feel dirty.
Now if fox news or even newsmax picks it up, then maybe start attacking this nonsense. Right now it seems to the crazies that we are taking them seriously. Why else would NBC News cover it?
It would be like CNN reporting on our Lemmy posts. It doesn't make sense to treat Twitter as if it's the news. It's how Trump had a stranglehold on the news cycle from a White House toilet. The news couldn't stop reporting on his tweets.
If I wanted to get my news from Twitter I would go to Twitter. I go to news organizations to hear real news, not stream of consciousness thoughts from public figures. I'm concerned how much actual news we've missed because news pundits are too busy checking social media to actually report on the news.
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Maybe they should pray over the outcome and see whether Jesus magic is stronger than a DNC plot. It's just a regular sporting event though, wouldn't want them taking it as a confirmation of their powers if the other team wins.
Either way, I'm sure the choose-your-own-adventure political mystery novel they're writing has win and loss branches mapped out. Chiefs win? Play victim since losing means the other side obviously cheated. Chiefs lose? It's a sign that the pendulum is swinging in your favor. Both cases conveniently ignore the fact that it's just a damn football game.
I wish mainstream outlets would stop propagating this nonsense as news. Stop giving them a platform.
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh described Watters’ commentary as a “conspiracy theory.”
“We are going to shake it off,” she told Politico, referencing a popular Swift song.
Unexpected Pentagon humor
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Sometimes I think we should all just turn around and climb back up the trees. Maybe evolve a little more.
You are in good company.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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I hope she kneels on the stage.
Anything that further divides Conservatives is something I welcome. Especially when they do it to themselves.
BWAHAHA THE EVIL PLOT TO TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT BY CAREFULLY CONTROLLING THE POSITION OF A POINTY BALL IN A FIELD OVER A SPAN OF TIME IS UNFOLDING EXACTLY AS I HAVE FORESEEN!
NOW WE JUST NEED TO CONTROL THE POSITION OF A BOUNCY BALL ON A SHINY FLOOR AND MY CURSE WILL BE UNLEASHED, ENSURING THAT ANY DIMPLED BALL HIT BY A CONSERVATIVE'S METAL STICK WILL LAND IN TREES, SAND, OR WATER.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Telling people to vote, either in a general sense or for a specific party, is just communication. That's not a psyop. Simply appearing at football games is also not a psyop.
all this bullshit does is make this heavy metal head want to listen to Swift. Good job numbnuts.
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