Oh wow this meme being used for a good thing. Maybe the darkest timeline is brightening.
Underestimate Swifties at your peril. Live Nation-Ticketmaster has been a loathed monopoly for years and they screwed up one Taylor Swift sale and there were Congressional hearings and a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice joined by 30 states’ Attorneys General.
Indeed. I’m delighted that LN/TM is finding out after fucking around so much for so long.
On an unrelated note, props for the usage of the correct plural form 🍻
for real? Where can I read more details about it?
So lazy lol.
This isn’t Google, it’s a social media site. It’s just people talking to other people, dude.
True… And yet Google is one tab or two phone swipes away for a really, really easily searchable question. And trust me, usually the one being not lazy for people. It doesn’t mean they’re not being lazy and fuck lol.
This is a start. I’m not sure where to get the actual legal filings though. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-live-nation-ticketmaster-monopolizing-markets-across-live-concert
Taylor Swift sucks almost as much as the people who like her music.
I don’t actually think that but I’d rather see that than all this ‘taylor swift fans are the mightiest force in the universe’ crap good lord. Causes headaches on account of all the involuntary spastic eye rolling.
Kpop too lol
It’s not so much a special capacity of swifties, but that they’re probably the only large unified bloc anywhere on the electoral left. I like them because they’re a large enough group of progressive liberals to prove that a unified front is absolutely effective
Being fan of a spoiled billionare who charges thousand for a gig and who takes 40 seconds private jets flights to avoid traffic jams is quite right wing and conservative mentality if you ask me
Do you think swift is setting ticket prices and slinging tickets before she hits the stage?
Lmao you want to be taken seriously so badly, but all your (overly-abundant) comments are laughable at best.
They are fully aware and ok with it, trying to defend a billionare won’t get you much. There are better and poorer artists who play gigs for free.
We get it, you’re too cool for popular stuff
For some reason you’re applying some moral attachment to something that is purely about the size of the group.
Her endorsement is powerful because of the numbers of people it drove to voter registration, and therefore some significant percentage of them to actually vote. Not because she’s awesome, or good, or whatever you’re upset about
It is in Taylor Swift’s best interest for Kamala to win. Trump will stop these investigations. Kamala will likely continue them.
Whatever your opinion of her/Swifties, this is ultimately good news.
Is it? They are bringing votes to a political party who is supporting a genocide where more than 40k people died so far, many of them are children.
Imagine if they brought hundreds of thousands votes to a third party or imagine if they would use the same leverage to boycott private jets or discouraging consumerism.
Yeah, Trump presidency would definitely not cause thousands to die.
Link totally irrelevant https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/us-coronavirus-response-donald-trump-health-policy
If red and blue have both the blood of thousand innocents on their hands a good news would be a celebrity with millions of followers endorsing a third party
No, it would not. Because in your system, one party has wrestled control by gerrymandering. Any support funnelled away to a third party helps them immensely. But that’s obvious to anyone over 14.
Any support for third parties is a blow to red and blue. A celebrity with millions of followers endorsing a third party would shake politics. That’s why it’s not happening to begin with, if you don’t support the establishment and call them out you don’t make a career at hollywood
They are bringing votes to a political party who is supporting a genocide where more than 40k people died so far, many of them are children.
It would be no different under the alternative administration. Probably worse actually. There is a very good reason that Iran created a plot to kill Trump and continues to hammer on influencing against Trump. https://www.npr.org/2024/07/16/nx-s1-5042424/trump-iran-plot
There aren’t two parties, if celebrities would endorse third parties perhaps you would hear about it
At the presidential level, there are in practical reality only two parties right now. Aside from the electoral realities, presidents also need to work with groups in congress, and only two parties are effectively present in congress. It sucks but it’s the reality we’re in. Now, this can change, but it needs to come from the bottom up via RCV and creating and enabling effective third+ parties at lower levels of government. Are you participating in your local and state level elections to enable creation of this necessary base of power and proof, or do you just run around online trying to find excuses to justify not voting? As for the choice we are faced with when it comes to Palestine, if you’ve been aware of this issue for more than the time it’s become a performative meme, then you’re well aware that there is a very real difference in the way the two parties enable Israeli crimes and merely by basic principles of harm reduction (because, at the end of the day, you should care about stopping as many people from being murdered as possible, not about signaling how wonderfully moral you are), it is very clear who is the more dangerous candidate.
it is very clear who is the more dangerous candidate.
Indeed it is very clear that both red and blue are supporting this genocide and that third parties would be a better choice. A celebrity with millions of followers supporting a third party would be a good news.
Jill Stein is crawling out of her cave after her ritual 4 year rest between presidential elections
If there was a 3rd party that actually did ground work to be viable, they might get a realistic amount of votes.
A celebrity with million of followers endorsing a third party would sure help that and it would be actually good news
Oh shit there are! Wow! /s
If one of them could get to the 5% popular vote…yada yada. Yeah I know. 2016 was the closest they got in a long time. I voted 3rd party then because I’m in a deeply red state so it wasn’t a throw away vote or preventing the Dems from winning. They didn’t get there. I’m am very convinced at this point you must fix the voting system before 3rd parties have any viability. FPTP is outdated at this point and the added layer of the EC is doing more harm than good now. It was a good idea for a different time, but today is different and the system should evolve. RCV/IRV has shown very clear benefits to enable more than 2 options to be viable on a ballot.
Red and blue parties have both blood on their hands, there’s a genocide going on in israel right now where thousand of innocent kids are being murdered. The best time to vote them out is now. If pop stars and celebrities would start endorsing third parties politics would flip. Taylor swift is not going to do that because her views well align with the current rigged establishment that favors corporations and rich peope.
I saw your history and eww. Just gonna hit that ol block button
“Young people never vote. It’s pointless to listen to them.” - centrists who don’t want policy changes.
A big chunk of Swifties are in their 30s at this point
Some people seem to forget that younger generations get older too.
Some people assume that they will become conservative when they hit 30.
Her first album is old enough to vote
The Thor of our universe is also an attractive blonde who has been worshipped by millions of Earthlings
But what exactly were all these people waiting for?.. Did they really need Taylor to tell them this? I mean the answer is obviously yes but why?
An incredible and depressing number of people in the world don’t know what to wear, eat, watch, where to go on holiday or who to vote for until a celebrity tells them to do it.
We live in a society that does everything in its power to prevent people from empowering ourselves. It’s hard to see outside that panopticon, I do not blame the people for their own disenfranchisement.
Young people who didn’t consider voting before probably.
A lot of people don’t pay attention to politics, and don’t realize things like the need to register to vote since their last move, since their name changed when they got married, etc. They just want to shake it out.
Especially from younger people, but not unheard of from older people, is a phrase similar to “I’m not really into politics”. People may not realize that they can ignore politics as much as they want, but politics will affect their lives through and through.
Imagine the impact she could have had if she had the balls to actually denounce genocide in Gaza. Art is supposed to shape society, not the other way around.
Imagine the impact she could have had if she had the balls to actually denounce genocide in Gaza.
You seem to have upset lemmy’s pro-genocide contingent.
EDIT: As have I. They identify themselves below.
More likely because it has nothing to do with the topic of discussion.
Oh fuck off. Nobody is pro-genocide.
I technically am, but not against Palestinians. The Mormons and Seventh day Adventist are free game though.
I’ll presume that’s a joke, as that’s mostly brainwashed innocent folks. I’d be down for something more like Kill Bill where an ex-mo goes and gets revenge on several elders for doing them dirty.
Forcible destruction of a religion is still genocide. Especially under penalty of force, mind you id focus on powerful community members and priests.
I really should start screenshotting when centrists say the only part out loud.
Evidence would indeed help your argument. But we all can look outside and see the sky is in fact not green, but blue.
If you are supporting someone committing genocide and it’s not your red line, you are supporting and condoning their actions.
But when I call you a Nazi for helping elect Trump (there are only two possible outcomes in November) you get all butthurt.
Stop trolling dead threads because you can’t deal with live discussion.
Do you really think I give a flying fuck what anybody thinks about my opinions? As you are here commenting on a month old conversation.
Talor Swift endorsing Kamala.
What the swifties hear: Would you kindly vote for Kamala?
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Are these confirmed voters or the amount of people clicking a link
It’s link based; vote.gov doesn’t actually register — they connect people with the correct state voter registration website.
Maybe you should try reading the article.
I can’t believe Taylor Swift drove instead of taking the plane…
Hollywood news on lemmy frontpage, my grandma has better awareness i’m not kidding if i have a political discussion with her the quality would be higher
Cool. Sign off and talk to Grandma then. You won’t be missed.
You are confirming that the quality of the discussion here is zero
338k people suddenly registering in one day is news.
As a journalist, the logical question when writing that article would be “why did so many people register suddenly?” And so you write that part into the article/headline to add context for the reader who will probably have that same question.
Otherwise people say “what a shit article, why is this on the front page of Lemmy? I can look up that number for myself”
Unlike Taylor Swift’s jet, you don’t need to announce your departure
If I had to spend actual real world time with you, I would probably just knod and agree with your shit-takes like your gran does.
You seem to think you’re a warm soul who is inviting to discussion but in reality you’re just another sour cunt crying online for attention.
you’re just another sour cunt crying online for attention.
You are replying to multiple posts in this fashion, you sure you are good?
Should we be saying “drove” or “flew in on her private jet”?
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