It is on.
Why are right wing parties obsessed with AI posters? And like HORRIFICALLY BAD AI posters? They're creepy as hell. In my country too, it's just unsettling. I guess it's easier than a photoshoot and allows you to make any obscene shit you want... Or just straight up lie.
I think you already answered your own question there. GenAI makes it really easy to flood a platform with loads of bullshit, and as a consequence make any point seem (at least somewhat) believable
Especially after the GOP literally pulled her into the spotlight over the subject https://newrepublic.com/...
I would have lost that betā¦
why, she endorsed biden in 2020.
Yeah I actually thought she wouldn't ever officially do it unless it was being timed and pre planned to occur just after the debate in order to have maximum impact. Which - I would guess that it was. Not that it's a bad thing.
Anyway I didn't think she would because I'm certain she lost some fans tonight - deciding to step into this race in such a major way. And the cynic in me thought she was more interested in money and wouldn't risk her image. I'm glad I was wrong.
i mean she endorsed biden in 2020, why would kamala be so much different?
Yeah I actually thought she wouldnāt ever officially do it unless it was being timed and pre planned to occur just after the debate in order to have maximum impact.
After the AI image ordeal she released a statement saying "for the safety of her fans" and being mid-tour she wouldn't release a statement until after he tour ended....which coincidentally was after the election.
Maybe she got some blowback because that would be the coward's way out (publicly denounce the orange turd if he lost, or just make it a minor, non-issue if he won), but also being more concerned with the $$ her tour makes by staying out of it.
I'm glad she nutted up and chose a side in this and has some sway with her non-tween rapid fan base. It certainly won't make me atart listening to her music though.
Banking on the following comments from the right, which they use for every artist's endorsement:
They're a has been washed up. Who even is this person? Guess I can cross him/her off my list I don't even know who this person is, what does it matter? This won't move the needle at all They should keep their options out of politics When is the last time this person has been relevant? Of course they would, all actors/actresses/artists are blue
Spin the ol wheel and let's see what we land on.
Don't forget that old standard, "She should shut up and sing!"
They should keep their options out of politics
And the same people who said that are the ones who love kid rock or the other motor city nutball whose concerts are nothing but right wing bs
Good luck calling Taylor Swift a has-been.
I really don't think Trump is gaining any voters at this point.
I bet they'd also say if a pop star is influential on your political opinions, you're a damn moron.
The party who elected a movie star? Surely they'd never be so hypocritical.
Twice... if you count Trump as a movie star.
Reagan is somehow remembered for lowering taxes even, when taxes were actually higher for most people* when he left office.
(*It was a little lower for corporations and the wealthy.)
Well, I'm not sure cameo appearances qualify "movie star."
And maybe they wouldn't be that insightful. Either way, it's a silly notion. We certainly should put weight in the political opinions of pop stars. Queen Latifahs endorsement of Biden is what swayed my vote.
Edit: So... Everyone agrees pop stars political opinions are important? It's ok that Queen Latifahs swayed my vote?
I honestly didn't understand the media timing. It seems like it would be more effective to wait until the bump from the debate was over, then do the swift bump to keep the beat
Oh that's a turnip? I swore it was a carrot
Iām entering
But that's not important right now.
Tim Walz's reaction to Maddow breaking this news
Fixed, sorry bout that
That video is private
So embarrassing for you to publicly admit the owner didnāt grant you permission
/s
It wasnāt the wrong link initially, I believe. I was watching the video on my television last night when it suddenly stopped and went private. I think MSNBC took it down and then put up a new one.
When the most popular musician in the world, a woman who has a vast number of American followers, a woman who got thousands of them to register to vote this year just by saying so, endorses a candidate, it's news.
Those are the sort of numbers that could change a presidential election outcome.
Yeah, this news is so irrelevant that it gathered a lot of buthurt people to go on posts and videos about it to say how much they don't care. Let's be honest, it's not that they don't care, they are bothered by it, they are concerned and afraid.
And right now this is the top post on lemmy. Very irrelevant, right?
Finally. After the ai bs she should have stomped. But I suppose itās hard to pass up the cash though Edit:sorry not sorry swifties
Cash?
endorsing a candidate risks losing fans & sponsors. Billionaires donāt like to risk that
Ohh gotcha thanks
probably maximizing impact doing it when more people are talking about the two candidates. also avoids some potential criticism because she hadn't released her policy plan until about right now. so now you got policies+debate+L+ratio
I take it no one ever told you just how much of a dick you are.
So Iāll help you out here ā youāre a dick. You might want to see someone about that.
Or donāt and continue being a dick on useless social media platforms where literally nothing matters just so you can feel smug and righteous within the confines of your inferiority complex.
It's ok I'd be just as excited if you endorsed her.
She stated that since someone on Truth Social posted an AI-generated image of her endorsing Trump she felt she must set the record straight.
She wrote why sheās voting for Kamala. She then encouraged her fans to research the candidates and decide for themselves which one best represented their own viewpoints.
I did like her reminder that if youāre a new voter you do need to register first!
But at no point did she tell anyone who to vote forā¦
More so helps motivate people to vote who otherwise migh not have done so
Iāve never like actually voted before but Taylor wouldnāt talk about it if it werenāt important
Then they do their research (well they did, they read her post) and tap her story to get registered. She follows it up with another post around Election Day and they go vote.
(No offense Swifties, just using one example. We canāt all be highly politically active, high-information citizens. Those who are will have gaps elsewhere in their lives instead.)
That "get registered" is one of the things I don't understand why hasn't been changed. In Spain you can vote the moment you are 18. No need to register anywhere. The only register that need to be updated is "where you live", so you go vote to your nearest location.
She commands one of the most loyal fan followings in existence. It's like, moving the needle percentages large and loyal, and also, disproportionately in places like GA, NC, FL, where it's still tough going for Kamala.
She got thousands of her fans to register to vote not long ago. I'm guessing they'll vote for who she wants whether she tells them to or not.
I find it hard to believe but according to a fan of hers I once talked to, they would vote for a rabid raccoon if she endorsed it.
https://youtu.be/DAp-9N2VR_o?si=po7kgETj0dbowZL9 By all means, vote for a rabid raccoon.
Probably not, but I'm sure some people are really gonna go, "I wasn't going to bother voting, but Taylor said I should vote for Kamala."
At this point, this is a game of turnout.
What's the propaganda?
Correct. Propaganda doesn't need to be unfactual. Using a celebrity figure to promote a certain party or ideology because idiots with no music taste love to worship this "musician" is propaganda... whether we like the party she advocates for or not.
GOP made it newsworthy https://newrepublic.com/...
Fuck off Dick Cheney
For those of us who don't celebrity worship, this isn't news. Anyone paying attention knows she leans left. Why anyone cares what a billionaire has to say is beyond me; there's no such thing as a moral billionaire. That said, if you care about democracy, vote.
Besides her being perhaps the most popular musician on the planet with a rabid fanbase that will do pretty much anything she tells them to, there's also the fact that Trump tried to ride her coattails by posting an AI slop poster claiming she was endorsing him, basically forcing her hand here.
But make no mistake. Maybe this won't affect you or me, but there are a lot of young women who are going to look at Harris much more fondly because she got Taylor's endorsement.
She is practically royalty, so her endorsement matters. (To some people)
She had kept her mouth shut right up until the Republicans co-opted her visage for a poorly generate AI endorsement.
On that alone itās not a surprise sheās endorsed Harris, her hand was forced.
I don't understand why people like you are pretending you don't know who she is when she's one of the biggest celebrities in the world with a giant fan base that does whatever she asks of them.
I get it, you're too good to listen to her music or whatever. I'm not even a fan of hers and I can recognize this as significant.
I'm sorry, but this is like saying you don't know who Elvis is in the late 1950s. Of course you won't know who she is if you refuse to find out who famous musicians are. She's so popular that her fans literally cause earthquakes just by dancing at the same time.
She was mobbed by so many fans at an airport in Tokyo that she caused flight delays:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...
Like I said, I'm not a fan. I know what exactly one Taylor Swift song sounds like and it's only because I was paid to do a parody of it many years ago.
But I'm also not ignorant of global pop culture.
"Wannabe musician" - that's a laugh.
This woman sings, dances, plays guitar and piano at her concerts for, like, three hours straight for sold out crowds all over the world where you have to get into a lottery to even buy tickets, but sure, she's not a musician. Give me a break.
The reason why her endorsement makes news is because she has 200M followers on social media, so whether you like it or not if she takes a stance one way or the other there will be people who listen.
"Wannabe musician"
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