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[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 73 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I really do not understand how she became an ironic leftist symbol, meme or not

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She seems like distilled spectacle.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

If capitalism were a pop star

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 49 points 5 months ago

It's so jokerfying how the chuds thinks she's a leftist because she's a billionaire and doesn't want to genocide black people.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, the frothingfash did started malding so hard that they busted out the "NFL games are scripted like wrasslin'" theory to paint her as some sort of Machiavellian puppetmaster.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

Classic conflict.

On the one hand she sucks but "only" as much as every other billionaire and less then a lot, like at least she's not also using her platform for spreading bigotry but also she's like the poster child for climate ruining personal consumption.

But on the other hand she makes chuds incredibly mad just by existing.

So bad with confusing unintended side effects?

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

She's just really popular in general, so people fit that into whatever way they feel the need to.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

i feel like it's only on hexbear i haven't see it anywhere else

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I've seen people calling her "The only ethical billionaire", so it's not just here

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 48 points 5 months ago

 "The only ethical billionaire"

michael-laugh michael-laugh michael-laugh michael-laugh michael-laugh

Revealing they don't understand how a person becomes a billionaire

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Incredible amounts of cringe, the liberals must be stopped before they lathe “ethical wealth” into the discourse.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

damn you sure those weren't just socdems? i find it hard to wrap my mind around actual commies saying that that but i wouldn't be surprised

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

https://hexbear.net/c/taylorswift THE ARMY HAS ARRIVED!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

White people. I say this as a white person. Pretty much every second white women loves Taylor Swift, even where I live. Apparently Taylor also alienated a ton of her black fans by dating and writing half an album about a racist guy that went on a cumtown podcast and said racist things. That's what I understand from browsing social media and listening to the first half of her latest album.

Honestly listening to Taylor Swift's latest album was weird. She had a whole song dedicated to calling out the section of her fans that told her to stop dating the racist guy. That level of parasocial behaviour on such a big pop record weirded me out. But I guess that's why she's popular, people want to be invested in the Taylorverse™®

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Honestly listening to Taylor Swift's latest album was weird. She had a whole song dedicated to calling out the section of her fans that told her to stop dating the racist guy.

She had a beautiful song called The Lakes which was ruined by her lyrics referencing twitter beef lol

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

Because she promoted voting

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

liberal symbol

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 64 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm so mad that housing is such a solvable problem/issue. It's not some nebulous quandary of the soul, it's a very actionable thing we can adress. We never do though, all we do anything other than shuffle human lives around.

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

And it’s not even a “we just need to spend the money” thing either, because housing homeless people costs less than letting them live on the streets. This is something that any level of government can solve if they just choose to. The federal government could do it by just using the money printer but also any broke local government can solve homelessness as a cost cutting measure.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

EXACTLY! FUCKIN' EXACTLY!

[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

costs less

That might be less profitable tho… you think we really care about efficiency?

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

but then how will we justify the giant police departments cities have, and how will we justify their primary function, which is buying off the most violent morons to the side of the capitalists so they don't make trouble?

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

We could solve it overnight but America doesn't want to set the precedent of providing basic needs for its populus when you could charge for the service instead.

[–] Eldritch@hexbear.net 63 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hate her so much. She's also a business owner and landlord. Plus her aryan vibes, I just can't stand it.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago

Plus her aryan vibes, I just can't stand it.

The tacit aryanism of the anglophone world is ridiculous

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

Plus her aryan vibes

No for real she looks like a Nazi propaganda poster

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 57 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Damn, she's getting the "head of state visit" treatment

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago

There's a whole fucking like microeconomy around her tour it's bonkers

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She's as big as the Olympics. That's a little sad.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

More a condemnation of the Olympics than anything.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Can anybody explain how Taylor Swift is so big? I'm normally not one to judge somebody's music taste but god damn she puts out the blandest fucking TV commercial music you can think of. Is the power of being a nepo baby so tremendous?

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean that’s entirely why. She makes largely uncontroversial music, and she’s largely uncontroversial herself. The things that the media focus on are her sex life/relationship which is typical celebrity gossip nonsense, but she parlayed that into an empowerment brand unlike other celebrities which I suppose may resonate with girls and women who hate having people constantly criticizing them for private affairs. Plus, there are only few reasons why people become popular. Either you’re extremely transgressive and controversial, or you’re widely appealing, or both.

Her feud with Kanye was also iconic. But nowadays he’s just dragging it out cause he’s washed while she just subtly references it or talks about it to the media constantly like it’s still relevant lol

[–] pyx@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

someone's gotta fill that lowest common denominator shit out. people love it

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Industry plant, its well-documented

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago

The best song writer of our generation

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fun fact: Taylor Swift's net worth is only slightly less than Edinburgh's annual budget.

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I scrolled through this thread and most of you seem more angry at Taylor Swift than you seem to be at the existence of homeless people

You waste your hate

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

edinburgh was also angry about the existence of homeless people and that was where the problem started in this case

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

The existence of Taylor Swift is almost no different than the existence of any other billionaire. The difference is that she produces something. The inequality remains constant.

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

false. dichotomy.

i'm pretty sure there could be room for both homeless people and music fans in the same city of capitalist greed weren't allowed.

porky watching taylor swift fans and homeless advocates fight each other: capitalist-laugh