Right-wing activist Jack Posobiec and commentator Charlie Kirk both blamed Taylor Swift's political power for electoral losses.
    • Kalkaline @leminal.spaceEnglish
      1713·
      1 year ago

      Smart cookie undersells it dramatically. Taylor Swift is a marketing and possibly a financial genius who has locked herself into the collective consciousness of the country. I used to try to not listen to her music at all, but my daughter and wife absolutely love her, so it’s all I get to listen to around them. She’s had virtually 0 truly bad press surrounding her. You don’t have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.

        • snooggums@kbin.social
          442·
          1 year ago

          She is also an extremely talented musician and entertainer. I am not even a fan, just acknowledging that she has put out solidly constructed music and tours for well over a decade and is clearly far more than just a fad.

      • HenchmanNumber3@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        You don’t have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.

        Actually this is a point of conflict for some of her fans. Some of my friends are swifties and they hate consumerism and high concert prices and collectibles and marketing that incentivize FOMO to spend more money. They jokingly call her their capitalist queen.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        I completely agree except for one small thing:

        She’s had virtually 0 truly bad press surrounding her.

        I’d say her dating a scumbag (the singer from The 1975) generated a fair bit of bad press. But it was usually fans yelling “DUMP THAT SHITHEAD”

      • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
        22·
        1 year ago

        She probably got that from her parents. They made the smart move to buy a farm and legitimize her country status. And I bet it was the parents idea to do country first and than transition to pop. The country genre was an easier market to break into at the time since country fans, back when she was an unknown, were still buying CDs at Walmart and such. So these store would put a larger selection of country music on the shelves than any other genre. Meaning a smaller country artist would get shelve space.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        She’s had virtually 0 truly bad press surrounding her

        Eh, she literally had an album titled reputation because hers was not so great at the time. This was when people were calling her a snake with the whole Kanye thing.

        So, virtually 0 bad press that actually matters, yeah. Good point.

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.eeEnglish
    1955·
    1 year ago

    He fumed in another all-caps post that “THE CHILDLESS, UNMARRIED ABORTION ARMY MOBILIZED BY BARBIE, TAYLOR SWIFT, AND TIKTOK” was “CRUSHING REPUBLICANS AT THE BALLOT BOX.”

    You are goddamn right it is.

    I am inevitable.

      • DokPsy@infosec.pubEnglish
        251·
        1 year ago

        It’s either a very dedicated imposter or the real deal which would mean Margot Robbie is a giant nerd. I choose the latter option but would not be surprised by the former.

        • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.worldEnglish
          26·
          1 year ago

          Margot Robbie is one of the smartest and savviest women in Hollywood, and is definitely one of the most likely celebrities to be using Lemmy and the Federated internet. She’s also clever enough to hide in plain sight, by using her own name, knowing that others will just assume she’s not the real Margot.

            • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              1 year ago

              Next thing you are going to tell me is that I’m actually intentionally leaving contradictory “hints” in my comments to protect my privacy online, or something like that.

          • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            114·
            1 year ago

            It’s not her, I’ve seen them say as much in previous threads. It’s just some sad dude playing pretend.

            Unfortunately, it has seemed to work. It appears as though we’re not much different than reddit after all.

            • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              FWIW I figure I’d verify and these are the closest they get to saying it outright.

              [-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 61 points 1 month ago

              You guys are laughing right now, but as the only real celebrity on Lemmy, identity theft is not a joke! Millions of celebrities would suffer every year!

              Imagine what would happen if some random Internet weirdo uses AI to impersonate me, super serious Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie, and make me say extremely silly things that I would never say in public on the internet? Would you still think impersonating a celebrity is funny?

              MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 62 points 2 months ago

              At least they are not doing the Twitter/X thing where they impersonate celebrities to push crypto… yet.

              Lemmy Silver is the only fake Internet money I endorse.

              MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

              I’ve never seen anyone trying to impersonate me on Lemmy, but if you ever see them, could you tell them to promote my latest movie, now also available on streaming, since I’m still on strike?

              MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

              Erm. You are not planning to impersonate a celebrity to make them say hateful things they would not say, right?

              I think Tortoise is the best open source model, and ElevenLabs is the best closed source one. But you should always be careful and responsible if you are speaking with someone else’s voice.

        • fiahEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          you keep doing you, we love you

    • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      322·
      1 year ago

      Fascists create enemies out of everyone who isn’t a fascist, then complain how they’re surrounded by enemies.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1341·
      1 year ago

      You know that it’s like super creepy to impersonate a celebrity like that. Get a hobby.

      Edit: And here I thought Lemmy was different. But nope, thoughtless novelty accounts already being deified. This shit isn’t even clever, it’s just a “hot celebrity’s” name. Wow.

      Lazy, uninspired, and just not funny. There’s nothing creative or interesting in making your username “Margot Robbie” and having people fawn all over you. It’s probably a middle aged dude.

      I guess I’m the only one who finds that creepy. I imagine Margot herself probably would too.

      But go ahead and validate some weird fucking dude cosplaying as a celebrity (who, remember, is a real actual person).

      Parasocial weirdos.

      • Mr_Blott@lemmy.worldEnglish
        214·
        1 year ago

        People like you don’t make the world better, just more boring for everyone

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          210·
          1 year ago

          boring

          Yes, nothing sates boredom like *checks notes* seeing a (likely) middle aged man cosplay as a celebrity on lemmy. You know, a real person. Not a character.

          Can you people really not see how fucking creepy that is?

          How is this shit clever or funny or novel in any way? It’s not even an attempt at parody or satire.

          • CrabLord@lemmy.worldEnglish
            73·
            1 year ago

            Do you also get creeped out by biopics? Someone playing someone else who isn’t them? What a terrible crime. At the very worst it’s someone spending their time to entertain us. It’s really not that unusual.

            • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              26·
              1 year ago

              Lol comparing this to biopics… What a fucking joke. A piece of literal art (whether I enjoy it or not), written, rewritten, casted, produced, rewritten again, thousands of people working together to create a film from literally nothing…

              Totally the same thing as a creepy dude making their username “Margot Robbie” like it’s creative or funny… Totally the same thing. Same level of creativity and execution.

              Also, perhaps most importantly, biopics of living people are rarely, if ever, made without that person’s (or their estate’s) permission. They have rights about their image being used. And, if the movie is defamatory, the person can sue.

              This isn’t even apples and oranges. We’re comparing two completely different types and classes of foods.

      • Hylactor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        133·
        1 year ago

        You know that it’s like super creepy to refer to Margot Robie as “just a hot celebrity”?

        And hobby? What the hell do you think this is? It isn’t a damn job. Lemmy is recreational. Vanity accounts are fun and appropriate.

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          29·
          1 year ago

          The point was that it’s lazy, uninspired and just not funny. I guess the standards for humor/novelty are very low around here.

          Like they’re not even creating anything, its not parody or satire or anything. They just made their username Margot Robbie and pretend to be her. Sometimes. And people just fawn over it.

          Frankly, if I were her, that kind of shit would seriously weird me out.

          Bunch of parasocial weirdos.

          • Hylactor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            83·
            1 year ago

            I think there are two concepts that are still eluding you.

            One, Margot Robie is larger than a person, not smaller. She’s not just some pretty women. She’s shorthand for a very complex collection of aesthetics, politics, and voices. She’s an idea, she’s an answer. Using her name is meant more to be evocative rather than convincing.

            Two, we’re all just farting around here, man. We’re sharing star trek memes and complaining about opening noisy food packaging in the middle of the night. Of course it’s lazy? No one is trying to construct the Sistine Chapel.

            If every place you go you’re confronted with disappointment, maybe you’re in the wrong place?

            • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              15·
              1 year ago

              As someone who was as reddit since long before the digg migration, and remembers how it was like. And how lemmy reminds me a bit of it… Forgive me for trying to avoid this place turning into that shit fest. I saw it happen in real time, and it starts with awful shit like this.

              Nothing wrong with a clever novelty account, but fruit is the lowest of the low hanging. Not to get too serious, It brings the entire discourse down. Obviously, I see the comment scores, and I know most of the people here seem to disagree, but I’ve seen this happen. More than once. And they started with good novelty accounts. This shit is insulting to people’s intelligence.

              I thought people here were more intelligent and high brow than to find “hurr durr, their username is Margot Robbie, and that’s really funny because she’s a really famous woman known for her looks, not the technical abilities most people on lemmy have! Hahahahaha” just… What? Lazy and boring. Not even hacky because it’s not even comedy.

              Just do better, that’s all.

              Bring the downvotes. Make sure you validate 43 year old Frank, from Boseman, Montana, for being smart and clever enough to come up with such a brilliant idea. I mean, to make your username THAT? Just inspired…

              • Hylactor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                7·
                1 year ago

                My man, it’s just a username. The comments section of a frankly niche social network are not the portents of the apocalypse.

                Also, you roll around insulting people, calling them creepy and lazy, telling them to “do better”. What is it that you bring to the table? Disproportionate outrage? Negativity? “Bring on the down votes” sounds more like vintage bad-times reddit than anything this Margot Robie user has done.

                • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  15·
                  1 year ago

                  Nah, just pointing out the creepiness of it that’s all. The creepiness, and just the lack of creativity involved. This is the kind of shit that makes the internet look bad and creepy to normal people.

                  Honestly, as creepy as “impersonating” a celebrity is, I don’t even completely blame that particular person. It may not have even have been their intention for it to get like this.

                  The stranger part about it all, to me, is the reaction they get when posting literally anything. That’s kind of what skives me out I guess. I’ve seen them posting all over the place, and it’s just weird to see people grovel to an account simply because the username is the name of a celebrity. And they want to believe.

                  Lots of people think it’s really her, and I’ve seen some weird shit… I dunno man, just doesn’t add anything of value imo, so I felt like pointing it out at the time.

      • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Lemme, like the rest of the internet, is pretty ass. There’s not much that can be done at this point. I try to step back and just view it as a way to understand human nature when given total freedom and anonymity

    • ZeroCool@feddit.chOPEnglish
      1063·
      1 year ago

      Yep, if “more people voting” makes you furious then you just might be reaching the level of mustache-twirling cartoon villainy.

      Don’t want to keep losing elections, conservatives? Adopt better policies. Nominate qualified candidates. And for fuck sake kick out the god damn nazis.

      • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
        481·
        1 year ago

        I would be interested to hear that they officially adopted any policies at all, it seems to be, “elect more of us so there are more of us so we can continue to try to elect more of us” the last person from the right wing I heard try to push a policy while running for office died 5 years ago

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1461·
    1 year ago

    GOP for the last 40 years: destroys the climate, job market, economy, education, and healthcare

    “Did Taylor Swift do this?”

    • Kiosade@lemmy.caEnglish
      201·
      1 year ago

      Knowing THOSE idiots, they’d probably just be like “yeah, so what?”

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        They very much are. They openly gerrymander and openly wonder why the Democrats don’t. They interviewed the guy that started it and he’s literally confused why it wasn’t done by the Democrats.

  • Captain_Patchy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1262·
    1 year ago

    Well, after all it couldn’t POSSIBLY their horrific policies, or their proud racism, or thier proud nationalism, or their hate for the LGBTQIA+, or their stance of abortion, or birth control, or wanting to outlaw divorce, or them wanting to leave people starving in the streets.
    No, it must be some other thing causing their losses.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        93·
        1 year ago

        always remember: the cruelty is the point.

        Apologies for being straightforward, but emotional hyperbole like this does not help anything.

        Did you ever just stop to consider that in their belief system they believe that a child in a womb is a living being, and not just a clump of cells, and that they see it as murder to abort it?

        Not saying that’s true or not, just that’s how they see it. And if you want to change their minds, you need to attack that philosophy, and not just brand them as cruel persons to be shunned/destroyed.

        Finally, I get you’re going to want to just attack me personally for calling you out on the hyperbole, but please, consider the words I’ve said here. I’m not just saying that for my own gratification, but hopefully to help you help change the world.

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          1 year ago

          If this were the case why do they consistently vote against government support birth control, pregnancy support programs, maternity leave, and aid programs to mothers? Be a bit like vegans demanding tax breaks for the beef industry or doctors wanting cigarette machines in middle schools.

          If I thought it was murder I would definitely be doing what I could to make murder happen less often. And I know this because when I was a theist I leaned towards it being more restrictive and still supported government programs.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            51·
            1 year ago

            If this were the case why do they consistently vote against government support birth control, pregnancy support programs, maternity leave, and aid programs to mothers?

            Again, it comes down to their belief systems, “be fruitful and multiply”, etc., etc.

            If I thought it was murder I would definitely be doing what I could to make murder happen less often.

            I’m just repeating what I’ve heard from conservatives I spoke to directly as well as conservatives who spoke out loud on TV and other media.

            And I know this because when I was a theist I leaned towards it being more restrictive and still supported government programs.

            IMO I don’t think they’re really thinking about government programs when they’re trying to protect unborn life (as they put it). From someone on the outside looking in, it seems more of an emotional decision that they’re making, versus a logical one.

            • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              1 year ago

              I have no problems with emotional decisions. I have a problem that they inconsistent. If you really really think that there should be more babies and abortion was murder you should also support massive infusions of government cash to protect those babies. Which they never do.

              I agree that you heard them say that but just because someone is talking doesn’t mean they are being truthful. Again, I was on the other side of this issue and I remember what I believed. My parents had 5 kids, I have 11 cousins. I have always known that raising kids was difficult and the government should provide help.

              • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                I agree that you heard them say that but just because someone is talking doesn’t mean they are being truthful.

                That could be said about anyone at any time about anything. To me that’s just hand waving away somebody else’s opinion so you don’t have to deal with it, and it’s not valid.

                I can tell you I have some personal friends who are conservatives (as well those are liberal minded), and I’ve heard the same kind of comments from them as I described here, and I believe what they’re saying. Would be strangely weird for all my conservative friends to be coordination lying on something that doesn’t really require lying.

                You know, you could go and ask them yourself, instead of just assuming that they’re lying and manipulating. Homo-sapiens are never that straightforward.

              • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                I agree that you heard them say that but just because someone is talking doesn’t mean they are being truthful.

                Just a clarification, it was many people saying that over multiple decades in multiple instances on multiple media.

                I personally have multiple friends who are conservative, from different families.

                I point that out just to make the point that I don’t think they all were being untruthful, and IMO I think they all (or vast majority of) were being truthful to their belief system.

                • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  31·
                  1 year ago

                  Are people telling the truth if there are a lot of them? Are people telling the truth if they say the same thing a decade apart in time? Or are people telling the truth about what they believe when they show a consistent resoned opinion that has all the basic objections to it understood?

                  I know people who make solid arguments for and against gun control and they all have a well thought out set of reasons and can usually deal with standard objections. I don’t see this at all with the forced birth crowd.

            • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              If this were the case why do they consistently vote against government support birth control, pregnancy support programs, maternity leave, and aid programs to mothers?

              My guess would be because they don’t want to spend money on other people, or at least other people that are not inside of “their” group.

              That and the inefficiency (in their minds) of government programs and how their hard-earned tax money is spent.

              Finally as far as maternity leave goes, they don’t want to pay workers and not get work out of them, though I’m not sure that’s a conservative only philosophy, or more like a Capitalism one.

        • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I reject the premise that being pro-life is about a moral conviction regarding the sanctity of life. If that is in fact the moral underpinning that informs the pro-life position, then we would expect to see a similar consistency with regard to all other issues relating to the protection of human life, but we don’t.

          What it’s really about is controlling women and maintaining a hierarchy by ensuring that sex without reproductive consequences is impossible.

          Pro-lifers tell themselves that it’s about the sanctity of life because by the rules of cognitive dissonance they have to rationalize a way to see themselves as the good guys, but again, all of that is belied by the fact that they don’t seem to believe in the primacy of human life in any other context.

          Unfortunately, this kind of cognitive trick is a very human and very common thing. We all do it to one extent or another.

    • UnspecificGravityEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Sadly, while abortion is a losing issue for them, their racist politicians are often winning in the same ballots that abortion is being protected on. Conservative women will protect their right to abortions but still happily vote for racism at the same time.

      That’s what these guys are missing. They are losing on abortion because enough Republicans care more about their own rights than about racism. Lucky for them, the ballot measures mean they don’t have to choose. They can protect abortion back home and keep on sending fascists to Washington.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I’d love to see the Republican party outlaw divorce. Over half of them will be prissy 10 years on being stuck with a wife they hate

  • switches@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    1 year ago

    Kirk continued: “All the Swifties want is swift abortion. That’s what they want. It’s 100%.”

    i’m fucking crying how do you say this shit and look yourself in the mirror after

  • g0nz0li0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    109·
    1 year ago

    “Taylor Swift is going to come out in the presidential election and she is going to mobilize her fans,” Kirk warned his viewers on Wednesday, adding, “And we’re going to be like, ‘Oh wow, where did all these young, female voters come from?’ We better have a plan for that.”

    Kirk acknowledging a) the party does not attempt to represent young women and b) the current plan is that they hopefully just don’t vote.

    • SuperDuper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      791·
      1 year ago

      No, the current plan is not that “they hopefully just don’t vote.” The plan is to actively prevent them from voting through various forms of suppression. They’re not just sit around waiting to see what happens.

      • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        TBH, actively trying to suppress voters isn’t even the worst of it. The next step is making sure that it doesn’t even matter if they do.

        You know, like they already do. Source: Am in Ohio. There are already public statements from officials that they are trying to dilute/overrule/ignore the results of our vote to legalize abortion and weed. And that’s even outside things like gerrymandering.

        • SuperDuper@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          1 year ago

          That’s the whole point of their independent state legislature theory. They argue that the state legislature can simply declare their own election results if they don’t like the voters’ results and that nobody, not the executive nor the courts, can challenge them. They are literally arguing that we should dismantle democracy altogether and somehow people are still “bOtH sIdEs”-ing.

          • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            The point of The Great American Experiment was to use votes rather than bullets to select a leader.

        • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          17·
          1 year ago

          It’s astonishing that their first thought is to oppose it by any means necessary when it passed with +14%.

          Like dude, you’re just self sabotaging yourself and your party. This is just going to happen again and again until you accept it.

          • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yup. Issue 1 was abortion, issue 2 was weed. Both passed with about 57% support. Weed was ever so slightly more popular than abortion, but only a tiny bit

            • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I mean I know it was on the ballot, but did the republicans says they wanted to ignore that part too?

  • duckCityComplex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1021·
    1 year ago

    This quote from Posobiec is amazing:

    “Republicans still haven’t internalized that the Left promotes abortion as a pro-feminism issue. They aren’t voting to kill babies, they’re voting bc of feminist movies like Barbie and pop stars like Taylor Swift influencing an army of voters,” Posobiec wrote.

    If they are surprised about the connection between the abortion issue and women’s rights… wow. Are they really racking their brains to figure out why “killing babies” is a popular position? How stupid are these people?

    • trafficnab@lemmy.caEnglish
      681·
      1 year ago

      “If all these damn people would stop VOTING we might be able to get some of our ‘highly popular’ policy through”

      • Daft_ish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        311·
        1 year ago

        Whats your highly popular policy?

        “Well you see, it’s based on this simple philosophy, fuck the poor.”

        • NeedsMoreCoffee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I never understand why so many people who are measurably disadvantaged by their platform will vote for it. Oh right, it’s because drag queens are the real enemy.

          • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            If the working class is too busy fighting amongst themselves, the rich can continue profiteering by looting everything.

            From Immortal Technique’s Poverty of Philosophy.

            Many of us are in the same boat and it’s sinking, while these bougie motherfuckers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we’re all in, we’re gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole

            The hate and the fear of violence that many non-White communities or those the LGBT community or any other marginalized is genuine. We need to protect those in targeted communities while trying to get people to understand that the only real enemy, is the rich.

            To paraphrase Beau of the Fifth Column, you have more in common with the average Chinese or Saudi or Russian or South African or Peruvian then you do with the rich in your own country.

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    882·
    1 year ago

    It couldn’t possibly be because of a heinously corrupt and out of touch platform that promises to hurt some people and help nobody, could it?

    No. It’s the Swifties who are to blame. Encouraging people to vote is liberal bias!

    • NeedsMoreCoffee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      1 year ago

      These are the people who see libraries, universities etc as liberal machines.

      If education hurts your platform…

      • hydrospanner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        1 year ago

        Yeah that’s one of the most telling things about the American conservative platform these days.

        Anti education because education undermines their position.

        Rely on the electoral college to get their candidate in office because they can’t win the popular vote.

        Fight rabidly to preserve their gerrymandered districts because that’s the only way they can cling to power.

        Invent and perpetuate lies and conspiracies because they need a distraction to keep their base afraid.

        …not saying the other side doesn’t use some pages out of that playbook as well, but for the GOP, that’s their whole book.

    • creamed_eels@toast.oooEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      Those regressive bitches don’t want to come for Swifties, they will bury them 😂

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    721·
    1 year ago

    Or, now hear me out here, maybe it’s just the fact that people have noticed that they overtly hate women and are nuttier than squirrel shit.

    • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.netEnglish
      202·
      1 year ago

      If I had a penny for every time in the past day or so I read “nuttier than squirrel …” I would have two pennies, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

      • Spendrill@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        There used to be a tv advert for a chocolate bar called Topic. You can watch it here. Memes in those days used to travel by word of mouth but kids up and down the country were encouraged by older brothers and sisters to yell ‘Squirrel shit’ in answer to the sung prompt, “What has a hazelnut in every bite?”

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    68·
    1 year ago

    My conservative neighbor is convinced in a conspiracy theory that TSwifty dating Travis Kelce is a scheme to get people to get the COVID vaccine. I wish I was joking, but he’s 100% serious.

    • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      1 year ago

      I still don’t understand how these magats and conservative conspiracy theorists can think Covid was some deep state attempt at thought control when Trump was the one who takes all the credit for the vaccine

      • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        Reich-wingers have no trouble believing in contradictory things, it’s like 1984’s doublethink.

        If a leftist talks about vaccines they’re a bad thing and have microchips in them to sterilize you or something.

        If their Führer says the vaccines only happened thanks to him the vaccines are the best thing ever and will even cure homosexuality

    • Thrashy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Even less credible than the Chiefs fan I know who has theorized that she’s scheming to break his heart at some point during the playoffs in order to cost the team a Superbowl run.

      I don’t think he’s serious, but I’m not 100% sure about it.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        Buckle up. Here’s his theory.

        1. COVID is a fake disease.

        2. The vaccine is part of some sinister government plot (to do what, only be knows).

        3. Kelce was in a commercial promoting the vaccine, obviously he’s working closely with the government for nefarious purposes.

        4. Kelce isn’t popular with young women. Enter T Swifty.

        5. Rather than simply have Tay Tay star in her own vaccine commercials, the government decided to have her date Kelce and therefore increase his popularity with her fanbase, therefore making them get the vaccine.

        6. ???

        • Marin_Rider@aussie.zoneEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          originally the cookers where saying we were all supposed to drop dead in 18 months. then they changed it to 2 years. now I hear them saying 5 year plan to depoluate the earth. why a sinister organisation would kill all the compliant people and keep the stupid trouble makers around is anyone’s guess.

          also, anytime some dies of literally anything, they jump up and down and blame the vaccine. one time I saw them doing this and the family came out to note the deceased was unvaxxed lol.

          • ZeroTemp@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            The problem with all these conspiracy nuts is that they can never answer one simple question. Why the theatrics? If what you say is true it would be incredibly expensive, require vast amounts of resources, and strict compliance like nothing the world has seen before. If this is all about “controlling us”, and the deep state/shadow government is as powerful as they claim whats with the theater? Wouldn’t it be easier, faster, and cheaper to just send in the Shadow government military forces to drag us all into the streets and say comply or die?

          • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.netEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I’m pretty sure whenever it comes out that the deceased was unvaxxed it becomes part of the deep state conspiracy to silence dissenters