“Everything I don’t like is woke, or a psyop, or liberal, or socialist, or…”
Communist is a classic
Or we could go Victorian and use Anarchist
Might ancient Greek Cynics be the original recipe?
Man I never gave those people much credit, but I’m not sure what’s below giant fucking idiot… DJT maybe?
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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Sometimes I think we should all just turn around and climb back up the trees. Maybe evolve a little more.
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.
douglas adams quotes warm my soul
Agreed. As do Terry Pratchett’s as well.
warm my soul
Teach a man to light a fire and he is warm for a night. Set him on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life…
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Rock climbing is just glorified monkeying around. Safely.
Why is it her fault? Was she their quarterback?
She’s dating a Chiefs player. If you’re an idiot, this means the game must be rigged in their favor.
See it all started when JFK came back from the dead…
ROFL! Holy shit I laughed out loud at this! Thank you. I needed that.
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.
Something is happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear…
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.
Yup. I’m a man in my thirties who has never been anything close to a “Swiftie” but when Midnights dominated the charts I decided to give it a listen and a good chunk of it resonated with me. Not the music itself, though it isn’t bad. Kind of generic modern pop. It’s her lyrics that sell it. I felt a bit like that Danny Devito “I get it” gif from the end of IASIP season 13.
Edit: (That said, I pride myself on being able to find things to appreciate about media I wouldn’t otherwise consume, and so I’m prone to liking things. Your mileage may vary.)
Taylor Swift has been putting out hits for 15 years. It’s definitely more than just tweens at this point.
*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.
She will be 35 in December and could be elected president in 2024.
Well she did dare to encourage her fans to vote! And that’s obviously anti-democratic or something.
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. Like none of this is new or a secret.
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.
I’m bitter about the chiefs too. Also I feel like “the fix is in” and “script” jokes about the NFL have been ruined by people actually believing in something like that. If you joke about it now Poe’s law will kick in, people won’t know you’re joking anymore. And the NFL is certainly not helping the optics by getting all buddy buddy with sports gambling.
I’m OK with the NFL having its popularity chipped away. It’s a destructive sport that’s held a privileged position in the US for too long.
It’d be nice if it was for better reasons, though.
I’m especially annoyed when these billionaire team owners with highly profitable teams get taxpayers to pay for their stadiums.
Now that I think about it, how about we convince them it’s a leftist plot for them to destroy the NFL? We knew they would hate Swift’s involvement, so we fixed the game in her boyfriend’s favor in order for conservatives to turn against football.
She’s obviously a witch /s
She turned me into a newt.
… It got better.
Jokes on you, it’s Newt Gingrich
… it got worse.
they’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one
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.
I hope she kneels on the stage.
So…talk to me like I’m a MAGA moron with less brain cells than teeth and a family tree that doesn’t always fork in all the right places.
What’s the problem here? Seriously. Even if Taylor Swift were personally touring the country, knocking on every single door, and telling people to vote for Biden. So? Isn’t that what their staffers should also be doing so they can get re-elected? So what if she stands on the podium if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl and says that everybody in the stadium and watching at home should vote for Biden?
Like at what point does it cross from the political activism that thousands of people across the country engage in all the time to some kind of “psyop” (side note: This is the stupidest term I have ever heard, by the way), “election interference”, or whatever other term they can come up with to imply what she’s doing is illegal?
Are they scared that Taylor Swift commands a bigger audience than Trump? Are they worried about millions of Swifties marching in lockstep to the ballot box to vote for Biden? Are they really all that concerned because a celebrity who has so far shown absolutely no desire even dip a toe into that political shitstorm might say something that might cause people to vote for Biden?
Are these people seriously getting all worked up over a celebrity who has shown no desire to give political commentary at all simply because she might endorse Biden? Or is this another situation where they’re pre-emptively setting Taylor Swift of all people up as the person to blame if Trump loses? Last time he did this, he said that everything is rigged and that’s the only way he could lose. Is the party really setting up for a round 2 where they blame Taylor fucking Swift?
Because that’s not going to work out for them. Taylor Swift is probably one of the biggest celebrities in the country right now, maybe only rivalled by people like the Rock. And that’s a hell of a maybe. Do they think pissing off a shit-ton of Swifties in red states is going to work? Fucking LOL. Try that and they’ll be lucky if all that happens is a few purple states go blue. Swifties are not going to be abandoning Taylor Swift on the word of Donald fucking Trump.
what is the importance if measuring whether the Nazis hate Tay-Tay ATM?
ELI5
They vote
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!
I want them to start going crazy because Beckham and Messi are getting all the boys to wear pink. Mwahahaha!
It bothers me so much to know how stupid I am and also know there are so many people even stupider than me.
Yeah. I’m dumb. I’m also in the top percentile of intelligence. No bueno.
I mean you can’t be that dumb. You speak French.
Tushy!
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.”
My favorite quote of all time.
*median, but we’ll let it slide, George
It kind of plays into the joke anyway
What’s the difference when talking about people rather than a metric?
Not sure, but in this case it’s a metric about people.
I parse the sentence differently then. The subject is the “average person”, not the “average person’s intelligence”.
Political brain rot being inserted into everything now days, exhausting.
