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reece(:
08-10-2018, 12:39 AM
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taylorswiftI’m writing this post about the upcoming midterm elections on November 6th, in which I’ll be voting in the state of Tennessee. In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now. I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country. I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.
I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love. Running for Senate in the state of Tennessee is a woman named Marsha Blackburn. As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn. Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me. She voted against equal pay for women. She voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape. She believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples. She also believes they should not have the right to marry. These are not MY Tennessee values. I will be voting for Phil Bredesen for Senate and Jim Cooper for House of Representatives. Please, please educate yourself on the candidates running in your state and vote based on who most closely represents your values. For a lot of us, we may never find a candidate or party with whom we agree 100% on every issue, but we have to vote anyway.
So many intelligent, thoughtful, self-possessed people have turned 18 in the past two years and now have the right and privilege to make their vote count. But first you need to register, which is quick and easy to do. October 9th is the LAST DAY to register to vote in the state of TN. Go to vote.org and you can find all the info. Happy Voting!
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reece(:
08-10-2018, 12:43 AM
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Smithy
08-10-2018, 07:15 AM
Taylor > Kanye
CONFIRMED
Elliot
08-10-2018, 08:59 AM
I know next to nothing on American politics so it was like reading Spanish but we love a human rights legend :clap1:
Jarrod
08-10-2018, 09:24 AM
Queen :clap2:
arista
08-10-2018, 10:03 AM
Getting Political
bad for her total fans.
Wizard.
08-10-2018, 10:19 AM
Queen of snatching money then letting her views be known :clap1:
..Taylor..:lovedup:...pfffffft to Marsha Blackburn though...
Getting Political
bad for her total fans.
Everyone has an acceptability threshold that once breached forces you into action. Taylor has reached that point. The fact that she has millions of followers will no doubt force Donny into making some derogatory comment about her as he always does.
GoldHeart
08-10-2018, 01:46 PM
Well when they have someone like Trump in the white House! :umm2:,I think it would make everyone air their views . Even the ones not interested in politics ! . There's alot of uncertainty in America , here in the UK we're in a messy situation as well with BREXIT :facepalm: .
Nicky91
08-10-2018, 01:57 PM
Taylor having better political views than Kanye and Trump wow
President Taylor Swift hmmm sounds pretty good, like if Trump can become president, Taylor should at least have a chance at becoming that either, at least she would be more serious than Trump, but then again anyone can be a more serious president than him i think, and also someone who is less nasty on twitter
arista
08-10-2018, 04:53 PM
Taylor having better political views than Kanye and Trump wow
President Taylor Swift hmmm sounds pretty good, like if Trump can become president, Taylor should at least have a chance at becoming that either, at least she would be more serious than Trump, but then again anyone can be a more serious president than him i think, and also someone who is less nasty on twitter
She has not got the Energy for that job
JoshBB
08-10-2018, 04:55 PM
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I'm living for the right-wingers getting angry about this too lmfaooo
Nicky91
08-10-2018, 05:01 PM
She has not got the Energy for that job
no, sadly not
i can see her doing something else in business, maybe having her own record chart company
JoshBB
08-10-2018, 05:11 PM
honestly Trump/Reagan have collectively shown that we don't need any more entertainment ppl as president lmao
montblanc
08-10-2018, 06:06 PM
took her long enough to clock her horrific fan base
Mystic Mock
08-10-2018, 06:38 PM
I didn't expect her to air opinions tbh, she normally comes off as quite a plastic person normally.
Respect to her though.:laugh:
The haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.
GoldHeart
08-10-2018, 06:48 PM
I didn't expect her to air opinions tbh, she normally comes off as quite a plastic person normally.
Respect to her though.:laugh:
What you really mean is she just sings about ex boyfriend's :shrug: :laugh:
Marsh.
08-10-2018, 06:58 PM
The polaroid aesthetic is not over?
Robodog
08-10-2018, 07:09 PM
i liked her song 'superman's bum'
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armand.kay
08-10-2018, 07:45 PM
poor sis has been made out to be the young republican mascot when she was an ally the whole time
If only Kanye did what he's told to do and didn't think for himself, he'd be a darling of the media too.
If only Kanye did what he's told to do and didn't think for himself, he'd be a darling of the media too.
Meh..i don't think that either is a darling to the media...people will vote ..hopefully with their own valid opinion
For what i's worth i think anyone with an ounce of copon can see that this poor lad is troubled..He said so himself....I am pissed off to see Ivanka and jared smile with glee at his meltdown...and a smug look look as if to say "yeah we have shown the world we have black's on our side" SAD
Meh..i don't think that either is a darling to the media...people will vote ..hopefully with their own valid opinion
For what i's worth i think anyone with an ounce of copon can see that this poor lad is troubled..He said so himself....I am pissed off to see Ivanka and jared smile with glee at his meltdown...and a smug look look as if to say "yeah we have shown the world we have black's on our side" SAD
I do agree that people here will vote whoever they feel they will vote for (I posted a study alluding to this in another thread (http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=349325)). That has been my view for some time now, that the extremes we are are overblown compared to the rest of the populace who just get on by getting by.
I disagree that the media doesn't have darlings. Most of our media is left-leaning and subsequently, have joined forces to push along the party front. That's not a secret. In Hollywood, it's not a good thing to come out as a conservative. It will cause those people to lose work. However, if they come out as left-leaning, then you gain notoriety, you become an renewed icon in a sense... if they're just a basic progressive, they don't get awarded as many points, but they do get a space on the Arc everyone is building for the coming technicolor tsunami... so there's that.
Alyssa Milano didn't have so much going for her before this. Ever since #metoo, she's become a model of sorts and is in the headlines frqeuently now. I don't know Swift's reasons for coming out of the political closet, but it doesn't really matter... the media are treating us a goddess for doing so. And most celebrities are suckers for chances to gain more public adulation... it can be quite addicting that feeling, I'm sure, of being well-accepted and even "united" among their similarly adored peers.
We have to remember the publishers in the media favor good versus evil story-lines... "the man" versus the underdog storylines. This has always been true, because we as human-beings can connect easily on an emotional to these narratives, and so it sells product. 2018 is basically this very old selling tactic, but turn it up a few notches.
Conversely, a lot of pundits make money off this too, as it's very easy to rally people to your side in the base when you can convince them the other side is in it for purely nefarious reasoning and that they're the "brave heroes". This has become our politics. Those same folk will say Trump is trash, but then they are all emulating him with his demagoguery because they see how highly effective it is. Industry and celebrity folk have realized how much politics is a cash cow atm. It works hand-in-hand with ideals of empowerment that have been the record playing out of pop-culture for at least the past decade... and pop-culture works very closely with consumer behavior, so yes... the financial motives unfortunately play a large role in the type of media we see/consume.
Anyway, our "news" isn't really news anymore... it has become much more Hollywood-esk, the grandiose behavior, the adulation, the hoards of sycophants... it is all there magnified ten-fold... but it's because in the US, Hollywood is the closest thing to a "dynasty" we will ever have. Many newsfolk want to be loved, adored and respected like those they have always admired in California... so it's really inevitable that both industries would eventually merge imo. The American culture is very individualist society with a smattering of well-ingrained rebelliousness and becoming a celebrity activist is the highest pinnacle of individualism... respected for just being you... not for being a member of the team or a civilized society.
Kanye is operating in a world different from us. I do think there's other things going on there, but business-wise he could see it as cashing in on that exhausted majority. The crowd who just want to see some kind of compromise and unification reemerge after all this.
He & Trump have both enjoyed a life of luxury incomparable to what most average people can probably wrap their heads around. Both I think were bit by the celebrity bug in quite a substantial way. The collection of average plebs who are there to serve to reinforce their individuality, their unique-ness (celebrity) and entertain their every whim. So I guess his ego sees bigger opportunities to grow that crowd beyond where it was prior. I suspect that's more what it is really about, his self-image being larger than life... Trump too wasn't satisfied, clearly, or he wouldn't have gone through all the trouble to run otherwise.
It is somewhat timely that both Kanye & Taylor are going through a political coming out around the same time. His dragon energy maybe... or maybe just dragging in general...
Northern Monkey
13-10-2018, 06:53 AM
Not a good idea for pop stars to get political.She could potentially alienate a portion of her fanbase.
Not a good idea for pop stars to get political.She could potentially alienate a portion of her fanbase.
The dems got a massive spike in new members and donations so she achieved her goal, and it won't affect her ability to sell songs one bit.
The dems got a massive spike in new members and donations so she achieved her goal, and it won't affect her ability to sell songs one bit.
That's how it should be really. It's her right to support whomever she wants. She's not calling for violence, she's encouraging her fans to exercise their individual right to vote...
Crimson Dynamo
13-10-2018, 07:45 PM
Oh she went for record sales and the kidz bought it
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Oh she went for record sales and the kidz bought it
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Well actually, no, their parents probably bought them... :smug: ... mmm, Capitalism...
James
13-10-2018, 11:27 PM
The dems got a massive spike in new members and donations so she achieved her goal, and it won't affect her ability to sell songs one bit.
I doubt pop star endorsements make much difference to voting.
I remember Ariana Grande asking fans on social media to vote for her brother in the Celebrity Big Brother final, and he promptly came sixth out of six with about 3% of the vote.
I doubt pop star endorsements make much difference to voting.
I remember Ariana Grande asking fans on social media to vote for her brother in the Celebrity Big Brother final, and he promptly came sixth out of six with about 3% of the vote.
According to Vote.org, a non-partisan group that seeks to boost turnout in elections, there was a spike in voter registration after Swift’s post, which mentioned the website. By midday on Tuesday – less than 48 hours after Swift’s post – more than 169,000 new people had registered to vote, Kamari Guthrie, director of communications for Vote.org, told the Washington Post.
By comparison, Vote.org added only 56,669 new voters during the whole of August.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/12/taylor-swift-democrats-midterm-election-celebrity-political-endorsements
DouglasS
14-10-2018, 08:54 AM
Looks like she has had a big impact then
James
14-10-2018, 09:14 AM
https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/taylor-swift-voter-registration-instagram-fact-check.html
:think: I'm sceptical it translates into many more actual votes. Do people think that the Republicans and Trump are going to get more votes because of Kanye West?
There was some comment after the 2016 election that celebrity endorsements actually damaged Hillary's chances, because the celebrity backing just ended up highlighting the cultural divide.
https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/taylor-swift-voter-registration-instagram-fact-check.html
:think: I'm sceptical it translates into many more actual votes. Do people think that the Republicans and Trump are going to get more votes because of Kanye West?
There was some comment after the 2016 election that celebrity endorsements actually damaged Hillary's chances, because the celebrity backing just ended up highlighting the cultural divide.
for all we know, 90% of the registrations could have been republican voters determined to go against her :laugh:
However it turns out she has at least encouraged people to exercise their democratic rights
for all we know, 90% of the registrations could have been republican voters determined to go against her :laugh:
However it turns out she has at least encouraged people to exercise their democratic rights
..yeah I think that’s the influence celebrities can have...to possibly reduce voting apathy in realising their vote does make a difference....enough otherwise non votes will make a difference...
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