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[–] 200 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Jordan Sather, a prominent promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, suggested that Swift’s life had been orchestrated as part of a sinister plot to encourage her fans to vote.

There a few other people quoted in there but it's all the same sinister plan they are proposing: The psyop is encouraging people to vote.

Republicans see large voter turnout as a bad thing because they are less popular than they want you to think they are. This is not new, it's just a new target.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Swift’s life had been orchestrated as part of a sinister plot to encourage her fans to vote.

    Reminds me of the time Republicans in some local election had sent out a mailer smearing the Dem candidate. There was a big box on one part of the card, in a large font against a dark background proclaiming that the Dem candidate wanted to "Educate and Transform you!"

    Well, I thought, do your donors know you are campaigning for the Democrat?

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  • [–] 181 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Better headline:

    The Right will believe literally anything except reality because they don't want to accept they're unpopular.

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    [–] 122 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The right is free to have kid Rock or whatever loser they have on their side, do the same things Taylor is doing, if they're so concerned. Except all she's doing is encouraging people to vote, which as we all know is bad for Republicans

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    [–] 102 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Qanon? Not a psyop. Fake electors? Not a psyop. Fake evidence of election fraud? Not a psyop. Inciting insurrection at the capital? Not a psyop.

    Popular woman wants right to healthcare? PSYOP!!!!

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    [–] 86 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh thank god. Republicans are gonna piss off the Swifties.

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    [–] 77 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lazy projection. The Trump campaign was already literally part of Russian PsyOps a decade ago.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The whole article could have just been this:

    it remains unclear how encouraging people to vote can be construed as election interference.

    But one of the weirdest things is how conservatives are totally obsessed with how many people she's dated. One of the tweets in the article says she "runs through men like water." Ok? Even if it were somehow unacceptable to date multiple people throughout the whole of your twenties, god forbid, exactly what in the fuck does it have to do with "election interference."

    I love how every male conservative leader can be married 5 times while paying for abortions for their girlfriends, but regular dating is where they draw the line.

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    [–] 67 points 2 years ago* (15 children)

    It's because the GOP knows that more voters means they lose. Centrists don't exist. There's no middle ground between Ds and Rs anymore.

    No one is 50/50 on Trump.

    VOTE

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    Years back before she had made any definitive statements about politics I think a lot of Republicans just assumed that as a rich, white, country-ish musician she was a right winger who could one day be their ideal Aryan Christofascist princess.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The only Swift conspiracy I believe is that she and the NFL fabricated her relationship with Travis Kelce to cross-pollinate the fan bases.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    The NFL fabricating stories for views / clicks / likes?!?!

    Never!!!

    Cuts to Taylor at a football game

    Cuts to demar Hamlin - tho he did die

    Cuts to Josh Dobbs and his degree

    Cuts to Jackson mahomes

    Etc.

    I firmly believe that the NFL absolutely drives a narrative, creates drama, has the referees keep games close for views and latches on to anything that makes news and drives viewers.

    The games exist to only serve us ads... :/

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    [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This the only political statement I needed to support Swift

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Swift is a force of good, as much as any insanely rich person can be. She alone may end up responsible for tens of thousands of young women registering to vote between now and election day. One of her Instagram posts drove 35,000 voter registrations. Republicans have every reason to fear the Swiftie factor.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah. She's measured with it too. One of the reasons her sway is so strong imo, is she just saved it up for a long time. So when she finally asks a fan "hey could you do this one little thing for me?" it almost feels like "uh, yeah, I've known you my whole life Taylor, of course."

    Which the fan doesn't "know her" per se, but between a musician and a huge fan, it definitely feels like you do. It's a personal relationship, a little different from most other fandoms. Music is just odd that way.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sorry not a swift person but isnt she just saying to her fans, you should register to vote and vote because its importent? Wish psyops was that simple.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Are they upset how so many people could yield so much influence to one person ?

    And they want a dictator.

    I'm so sick of Absolutists. They create monarchies, wealth gaps, and Spanish Inquisitions.

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So, Russian interference was a "hoax" (according to most of the radicalized right wing, the Enlightened Centrists and of course, a lot of the unhelpful left who seem to enjoy being useful idiots), but Taylor Swift is part of the Deep State or something?

    XD XD

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    Lmao, even if it's true the actual complaint here is they're mad the Democrats did it too, only conservatives are allowed to run info ops during elections!

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why the right thinks Taylor Swift is a government PsyOp designed to swing the 2024 election

    Because they're stupid, conspiracy-theory believing fucks.

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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Republicans brains go burrrrrrr

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    [–] [S] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Just when I think conservatives can't get any dumber they always find a way. It's remarkable, really.

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    TIL opinions+ talent + marketing = psyop.

    Is every political campaign a psyop too?

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Democrat party can't even advertise when Biden does a good thing properly. You think they're smart and organised enough to run a sophisticated psyop like that?

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Finally, my tax dollars are doing something useful.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer even claimed that Swift’s entire Eras Tour was nothing more than “a Democrat Party Voter Registration drive

    Yes, because the voter registration drive would only 100% register democrats or people who they know will vote democratic. No republicans/GOP voters could possibly get registered.

    Well now it’s obvious - the only option is for the GOP to buy all of the tickets to Taylor Swift concerts, thus preventing democrats from being able to register to vote.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    The answer is simple, because reality and the truth almost never align with the goals of the right. So they invent these fantastical conspiracies to explain why the world is the way it is.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    While I don't listen to her stuff intentionally, I do enjoy her tunes for the most part that I've heard. I also recognize her talent and influence.

    I think it's really wonderful for her to encourage her fans to register to vote...

    The more people who vote the harder it is to maintain minority rule.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Anything that hinders the GOP is a government PsyOp. Anything that helps the GOP is God's will.

    Delusional fuckers.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Republicans are attacking Swift/Swifties? I need to buy more popcorn!

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fools! How can they not see that Taylor Swift's tour is a secret op to install 5G towers all over the world that will make our penises fall off? Wake up, sheeple!

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because they're running a PsyOp designed to swing the 2024 election to a victory for their dictator?

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