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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 161 points 2 years ago

*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!!

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 88 points 2 years ago

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. 😂

[-] PrettyLights@lemmy.world 70 points 2 years ago

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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[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

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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[-] Syndic@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Well she did dare to encourage her fans to vote! And that's obviously anti-democratic or something.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 120 points 2 years ago

These people are unhinged.

[-] don@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

🌍👨‍🚀🔫🧑🏻‍🚀always have been.

[-] rynzcycle@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago
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[-] Masterblaster@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

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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[-] the_q@lemmy.world 119 points 2 years ago

It bothers me so much to know how stupid I am and also know there are so many people even stupider than me.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Think for a moment how stupid the average person is...Then realise that half the population is dumber than that. - George Carlin

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

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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[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 79 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Everything I don't like is woke, or a psyop, or SJW, or liberal, or socialist, or..."

[-] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago
[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Or we could go Victorian and use Anarchist

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[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 34 points 2 years ago

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!

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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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[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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?

[-] butterflyattack@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

MAGA has chosen the wrong boogeyman this time.

[-] Case@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 2 years ago

I didn't expect the revolution to be led by tween pop fans, but I remember middle school.

Vicious.

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[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Why is it her fault? Was she their quarterback?

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

See it all started when JFK came back from the dead...

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[-] signor@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

Political brain rot being inserted into everything now days, exhausting.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I hope she continues to make all the things happen that pisses them off.

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

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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[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

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?

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[-] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wish mainstream outlets would stop propagating this nonsense as news. Stop giving them a platform.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Sometimes I think we should all just turn around and climb back up the trees. Maybe evolve a little more.

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

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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[-] bacon_saber@fedia.io 15 points 2 years ago

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

[-] BobVersionFour@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Pentagon humor or secret signal to the swifties? /s

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[-] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Anything that further divides Conservatives is something I welcome. Especially when they do it to themselves.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

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.

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