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Taylor Swift Drove Nearly 338K People to Vote.gov With Kamala Harris Endorsement Post
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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?
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This is simultaneously wonderful and depressing.
My first vote might have been because of free coffee at Starbucks for I Voted stickers. In other words, it can always be dumber ;p
Ha, that's pretty good! Thanks for the perspective.
I've voted in every election for which I've been eligible, so I wonder if some of my votes were just to keep the streak alive even if only subconsciously.
I mean, some of them are like that. I've voted every time since, and I maybe my proudest, silliest vote was for Obama in the primary. I was, what, 20, and just really not that into Hillary mostly because she scapegoated video games. Obama ended up being a very good choice, but that reason was definitely immature young adult brain. (Vibe probably mattered, too, now that I think of it).
Honestly, dissing video games was not the best reason to get me to vote against her but like, you know how rare it is for as young person to vote in a primary? Small things like that can matter.
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Right there with ya. The fact that this is a thing in our society is just... I'll take it, but yikes. Glad she didn't endorse trump I guess.
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Whatever your opinion of her/Swifties, this is ultimately good news.
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"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.
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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.
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.
Talor Swift endorsing Kamala.
What the swifties hear: Would you kindly vote for Kamala?
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