Fox news pulled out the old “rich liberal having a private jet makes them a hypocrite because emissions” nugget they’ve been falling back on since the 2000 election (if not longer, that was the year i started following politics) and now it’s getting astroturfed everywhere. more meaningless culture war shit, basically.
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IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been seeing these memes for days. I’m completely out of the loop on why Taylor Swift and planes are a meme right now, and quite frankly at this point I don’t want anyone to explain it to me. ☕
chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
On top of Fox News pulling the “hypocrite leftist” stuff, there are also leftists like myself that simply don’t like anyone with a private jet. Swift may not be an alt-right troll, but there is no such thing as a billionaire leftist. She’s a capitalist who knows her audience.
chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
while i also feel private jets are bad in general this is a conservative-media-led dogpile meant to smear her as punishment for telling her fans to vote or somesuch. there’s more productive things to do with that drive and energy than parrot literally decades-old Fox News smears. why are we playing their game?
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The Kremlin is pissed that Swift is kind of taking a stand against their candidate for US president. They don’t like it and want to make an example of her to discourage other influential people from standing up for democracy. So, they’re trying to run a smear campaign and apparently this is the best they can come up with.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Okay, so let me explain, Taylor is now a plane. That’s it 👍
Thrashy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I appreciate how quickly this has mutated from a jab about how frequently she flies on her private jet to “Taylor Swift is jet, like if true”
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only explanation anyone should accept. Thank you.