Swifties, explain yourselves (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by MaxOS@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Heres my theory:

She endorsed Biden in 2020.
Biden funds the Palestinian genocide.
Taylor Swift is seen talking to her friends, the Hadids, who are Palestinian.
She has not endorsed Biden yet for 2024.

My opinion: She’s talked to Biden’s reps already and said she’ll only endorse him after he stops funding the genocide.

Bias: I am a Swiftie and don’t want to think mother is bad.

[-] odmroz@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

I want to believe.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

Save Genocide Joe, billionaire landleech, you’re our only hope.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

Theres no explaining Swifties

[-] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

The whole unironic "Swiftie" thing among communists is proof that we aren't immune to hero-worship. She was always just mildly progressive lib who makes pretty good music. Just because you cry to her music doesn't mean her opinions are any more correct.

I'd love to see the alt-history Hexbear if our demographics had more Kanye fans.

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

I think we have a decent amount of Kanye fans its just that... you know... everything this past few years. What I would like to see is how would people talk about him if his music quality hadnt dropped some albums ago.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

proof that we aren't immune to hero-worship.

JB-shining-aggro

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Don't think it's a thing among regular communists. I've seen so many even vaguely leftist/liberal people on tiktok call her performative, an industry plant, the epitome of white feminism, silent on Palestine, etc.

[-] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

We literally have a community based on memes of her being communist.

Even if it is "ironic," on the internet anything done ironically is half-serious.

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

By "regular communists" I meant people who don't use this site, I always saw Marxist-Swiftism as a Hexbear quirk

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Yes, because highlighting Trump/GOP weirdness has always worked against them.

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If there's one thing Taylor Swift is good at, it's maintaining her public image, and her and her PR people must know that the Swifties are just as divided as the rest of the country wrt Israel-Palestine. Why would she support Biden when she knows half her fanbase will get upset with this decision? Silence has always worked well for her in the past.

She's since dipped her toes into political issues provided they don't damage her image too badly, but supporting Biden right now, especially when she's at probably the peak of her fame and anything she does will draw massive scrutiny and result in hundreds of thinkpieces and "takes," probably just seems too controversial. Maybe that'll change though when the general gets closer and she can frame her support as "anti-Trump" which is one political position she has embraced in the past.