Was that midterms? I know she doesn’t get political, but I think she was just telling her fans to make sure they go out and vote. More voters scares certain political parties. That’s my best guess anyway.
Not just more voters. More “wrong” voters. Like young, black, and young black voters.
That’s what I don’t like about her. She’s just in it for the money, and she’s a vapid mo-fo with nothing much to say. Just like her detractors.
Has it really come to a point where public political discourse is some dumb fuck against some other dumb fuck?
Before you say it was always like that, think it over, because it is not true.
Edit: sigh… and the plebs just keep running the propaganda machine’s errands by doing exactly what it tells them to.
Women’s bodies are literally on the line here and you come with some misogynistic bullshit like that???
You need to take a long hard look at yourself there,sir.
I did, I took a 45 year hard look and I think you’re a hammer seeing everything as nails. I hate what she represents, a media cabal pitting idiots against each other to distract from what is really going on. Not that she’s a woman. Would you say I’m bigoted against deluded rednecks too?
Edit: crickets and downvotes. Seems there is no debating some people, they just “know” they’re right.
I’m guessing you’re not getting many replies because you’re not forming a coherent argument.
Your first comment was against Taylor Swift expressing the view that her fans should go out and vote. Your second comment is against “what she represents” which you left undefined other than the media cabal which is a separate issue and outside of her control.
Remember when the crazies were considered alt right instead of mainstream right?
The Overton Window is a fairly popular concept on Lemmy, and I haven’t the faintest idea why.
It’s easy to see why the Overton Window holds such appeal. For one thing, it offers a universal theory of change in an age of polarization and fracture. While Trump and the UK Independence Party pull right, and Sanders and Corbyn pull left, Overton’s concept suggests that the mechanism of change is the same. For another thing, it has the virtue of simplicity: Overton did little more than repackage the basic negotiating principle that if you ask for a lot, you will likely get more than if you ask for a little. And although the window offers a theory of change, its central element—the window itself—actually describes the norm from which reality has deviated. Zeynep Tufekci worries in The New York Times that Trump “voices truths outside the Overton Window,” while the British writer Sam Leith speculates that Corbyn may have positioned his party “dangerously far from the centre of the Overton Window.” The window serves as shorthand for the erstwhile consensus. Viewing politics through the Overton Window reinforces liberal notions about the moderate center, even as that center ground erodes.
For conservatives, by contrast, the Overton Window has always been about strategy. Though Overton himself never committed his most influential idea to paper, his Mackinac Center colleague Joe Lehman continued his work after Overton’s death in 2003 at age 43. Lehman not only coined the term “Overton Window,” he weaponized it, setting up training sessions on the concept for other right-leaning think tankers. The term filtered into the conservative blogosphere in 2006, when Josh Trevino enthused about the window as a tool for the right. “Step by step, ideas that were once radical or unthinkable—homeschooling, tuition tax credits, and vouchers—have moved into normal public discourse,” Trevino declared. “The conscious decision to shift the Overton Window is yielding its results.”
The concept did not reach a wider audience, however, until Glenn Beck cast Overton’s ideas as the bogeyman in his 2010 best-seller, The Overton Window. The villain of Beck’s tale is Arthur Gardner, an aging PR guru who plots to use the Overton Window to foist his own objectives (“criminalize dissent,” “reinforce dependence and collectivism”) on an unsuspecting and gullible public. In his afterword, Beck urges readers to watch out for manipulation in their own lives and to set their own priorities.
While Beck shared Overton’s libertarian ideology, he was wary of the window as a strategy for change, imagining a totalitarian left that could hijack it. Its elitist overtones also stuck in his craw: An early champion of the Tea Party, Beck preferred to extol the power of the American people, whereas Overton largely sought to influence policy-making from the top down by “educating lawmakers and the public.” At one point in his novel, Beck takes a veiled swipe at the somewhat otherworldly Mackinac Center, which was founded on an island in Lake Huron: Arthur Gardner’s son boasts that his father “stole the concept” of the Overton Window “from a think tank in the Midwest.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/138003/flaws-overton-window-theory
Well I’ll be damned
It’s even more embarrassing, though. The full-time pundits and career politicians pitching a hissy fit right now aren’t alt-right incels. Whining about Taylor Swift is a coordinated strategy.
It’s not the most useful distinction when the full-time pundits and career politicians in question are taking their cues from the alt-right incels. Certainly still an embarrassment though. This is not how the GOP (re?)gains its credibility among the sane.
They should be courting her not bitching about her. If she said in concert that she would be verry disappointed in anyone that didn’t vote x. It would be difficult to derail that swatch of engaged people.
Taylor Swift dressed as Hulk Hogan: “listen up all my Swifty-maniacs, I want you to smash the Fash and punch Nazis, oh and PS: fuck MAGA to death!”
That’s a whole new Era for her next tour… :P
I didn’t know that I need this, but I need this so much.
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The onion is getring out of things to publish.
But yeah something that a couple of years appears to be insane now is a reality with the snowflake conservatives
The Overton window being incrementally pushed.
Mike Drucker
2018 was FIVE years ago?
Almost 6 my friend.
Remember the freaky guy who sued Swift for not performing one of his songs? That’s what conservatives sound like lately about her.
Why was she on the radar 5 years ago?
I think that’s when she endorsed some Tennessee Dems.
Right? I never heard about her until last year.
Wait seriously, like not at all? If so I can only assume you live out of the US or literally under a rock if you do live in the US.
Sarcasm is dead.
Or I just don’t know who you are or what your intent/context was over text on the Internet. Seeing as I’m not the only one a little confused/taken in by your sarcasm it might not have been the greatest punchline.
You’ve never heard of Taylor Swift until last year?
Do you know who Madonna or Michael Jackson are?I’ve heard of Pree Madonna but I don’t know what she’s famous for
Sarcasm is dead.
Funny sarcasm is far from dead.
It’s a shame they are all so fucking vapid.
I agree with the good call. Can’t say I’m as fascinated by her receiving more attention than half the NFL teams, tho
Why would you be fascinated by that? She’s probably been more famous than all of the NFL combined for more than a decade. Why wouldn’t she get more attention than them?
I don’t like professional sports or T Swift.
Gun to my head, I would pick T Swift.
This isn’t even about preference, though. Most people would recognize Taylor Swift before they’d recognize any NFL players, even if they hate her music.
Unless that NFL player was also a famous murderer.
All fair points. Just adding my own comment to the previous one.
