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Is Taylor Swift's New Album Bad Enough To Trigger Class Consciousness? (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] Sas@beehaw.org 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What tf even is this headline

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You’re engaging, which means it worked. Welcome to current day “journalism”.

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 8 points 8 months ago

I'm engaging with a lemmy post but i didn't click the article because of the title

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

On an unrelated note, shes had so much cheek filler put in that she looks like a squirrel preparing for winter

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Idk why but her eyes always feel too far apart for my brain. It's like an uncanny valley type of thing.

[–] m3t00@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

feel like my parents, watching kids screaming at the Beatles

[+] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

yes, because let's be awakened by the, checks notes, woman who was born into disgusting amounts of wealth and prosperity.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Neither of you should be commenting when you clearly didn't read the article.

The album makes it clear what an out of touch billionaire she is and even her fans are mad about it. Literally nothing to do with her leading anything, it's about the negative reactions from everyone else.

Goddamn, it's like you didn't even read the headline

[+] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ahh the swifty-simps came out to play

just because you call yourself out doesn't absolve you from any wrongdoing.

tell me, what programs has she made that she doesn't directly benefit from?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What I said about her was in no way positive so I'm guessing you're just a troll

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it's almost like the cognitive dissonance is so deep you can't even understand.

let me break it down for you;

she's rich and part of the wealth problem.
just because she calls herself out doesn't mean she's not still part of the problem.
just because you call her out as part of the problem doesn't mean she's still not part of the problem.

you attempted to disqualify my position by calling out her calling out her behavior as commendable. if that's not what you did, then why say anything at all if you agree with me?

if anyone is a troll here, it's you.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Holy shit dude, no I did not

I am saying she's an out of touch billionaire

I am saying her fans are waking up to the truth

I said nothing good about Taylor Swift here

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And Friedrich Engels was bourgeoisie and part of the owner class. Still he contributed a lot to socialist ideas, especially by financing Karl Marx and later after Marx death editing his writing to produce the later parts of Das Kapital.

Now I'm not saying that Swift is like Engels, but letting the birth circumstances dictate the opinion about somebody is not what leftists should do, it's the enemies way of acting. Judge somebody by their acts, not their birth.