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‘Mastermind’ Taylor Swift drives hoards of fans to voter registration site
(www.independent.co.uk)
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They're not going to vote for Republicans I hope. I don't really follow Swift but I assume she's not, like, a deeply horrible person.
Generally speaking, because Republicans are a minority, the more people that show up to vote, the worse it is for Republicans. That's why they work so hard to suppress voters. Anything that gets more people to vote is good for Dems even if you're not asking people how they're going to vote.
https://www.insider.com/timeline-of-taylor-swifts-politics-2018-10
Tldr; yeah they're not going to be voting Republican.
Shit man, I'll make the dumb, easy comment. But I really do mean it: That fuckin' whips ass
Unless she follows it up with a message about "remember to schedule some time on election day to vote" a few days before election day and another message on actual election day to remind people to go out and vote that day, all she has done is increased the available voters not the successful 2024 voters.
It's rarely that the job won't let you vote, it's that people can't afford to take the time off needed to vote.
Remember, the GOP has spent decades working to disenfranchise voters, and one of the many tactics they use is closing polling stations in areas likely to vote against them, making in-person voting an ardious, hours-long process.
Who do you sue when the lines at the polling stations are 8 hours long?
Which is all why early voting is so important.
We have an election coming up here in Canada, in Manitoba specifically.
The early vote window opens Saturday for a week, followed by the voting day. You get 3 hours off to vote, I've instructed everyone working on my projects to coordinate so we're not all gone at once. Polls open 8-8.
Even our piece of shit conservatives push for early voting. It's just a better way.
Where I am in the US we have about three solid weeks of in person early voting, and anyone can request a mail-in ballot, which they can either send through the mail, or deliver in person, or discard and vote in person (in case your abusive spouse tries to vote for you by mail). We've made quite a lot of progress in the past decade
Marianne Williamson should try to spend some time with Taylor Swift, getting Taylor fans to see her policy positions would maybe pressure the DNC to have a debate with Biden going against her and that idiot RK jr
The whole reason she's doing this is because she saw that Trump was an awful president and she needs to do her part lmao
She released a whole anti Trump/Republicans song a while back called Only The Young:
And the big bad man and his big bad clan Their hands are stained with red Oh, how quickly, they forget They aren't gonna help us Too busy helping themselves
Only artists who don't become successful can promote good messages
/s
I'm just glad people are getting involved in the voting process. Let them vote how they choose. This is good for us all.
She made an anthem to gay people at one point so chances of them voting republican are slim lol.
Lemmy's favorite billionaire, I'd warrant.
Well given that her fans skew young and female, why would they? The Republican party is just 3 world-ending death cults in a trenchcoat and their staunchest supporters openly brag about abusing and oppressing women.
Fuck I'm going to laugh if Taylor Swift takes their guns though.
Her entire fan base are racist conservatives