These people are unhinged.
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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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🌍👨🚀🔫🧑🏻🚀always have been.
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.
i’m seeing this more often recently and i appreciate people who identify it and call it out
*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!!
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
Seriously. There is a conspiracy here, and it's to get the Chief's to win. /s. Probably. Not really. Yes I'm bitter.
All joking aside I miss when we could have "low stake" conspiracy theories. Now we have genuine flat earthers and the like, it's only a matter of time before someone weaponizes the "birds aren't real" meme. I swear god people will look back at pizzagate as the definitive marker where the world forgot 4chan was primarily a joke.
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Well she did dare to encourage her fans to vote! And that's obviously anti-democratic or something.
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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."
*median, but we'll let it slide, George
It kind of plays into the joke anyway
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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.
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.
If you think her fans are just tweens you are in for a big surprise. She is extremely popular with most age groups. Hell, I don’t even listen to a lot of pop but I find myself singing along to her songs.
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Something is happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear...
Taylor Swift has been putting out hits for 15 years. It's definitely more than just tweens at this point.
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.
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.
There are many fine establishments that allow you to bet on the outcome of NFL games.
So all those conservatives are placing bets now, right?
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.
could be part of an orchestrated plot to drum up hype for the Democratic Party.
What if it was? Then what? Isn't that just marketing? Commercialization? I mean... what? Why even care?
The same dipshits also think Ted (pedophile) Nugent is an American hero.
I wasn't aware it worked like that, that because a certain team won, everyone has to do what Swift wnats...
In fact I'm sure it doesn't....
I know Conservative arguments don't often make sense, and by design are meant to be catchy slogans more than accurate precise arguments, but... shit sometimes they make it too obvious.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Swift’s appearance on the field following last night’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens sparked a fresh wave of social media vitriol and the resurgence of some conspiring that her near-dominant place in U.S. pop culture must be the result of some sort of psychological manipulation effort — known more colloquially in fringe circles as a “psy-op.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, who dropped out of the Republican primary race this month, shared his own conspiracy theory on X Monday, suggesting that the Super Bowl will be rigged to favor “an artificially culturally propped-up couple” whom he believes will reveal a “major presidential endorsement” this fall.
The Pentagon shut down similar right-wing accusations earlier this month after conservative commentator Jesse Watters claimed that Swift was a potential “front for a covert political agenda.”
In 2019, she shared an open letter urging Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican, to support the federal Equality Act, which would enshrine protections for LGBTQ+ people.
The singer netted the highest favorability rating of any public figure tested in NBC News’ November 2023 national poll — with 40% of registered voters saying they have a positive opinion of Swift and only 16% saying they hold a negative one.
Some online, including those in the football world, have wondered why right-wing pundits seem to concern themselves with Swift’s relationship with Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce.
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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!
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
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?
all this bullshit does is make this heavy metal head want to listen to Swift. Good job numbnuts.
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