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cobalt going beige todayTaylor Swift gets over 35,000 new registered voters with single post https://www.abc15.com/taylor-swift-gets-over-35-000-new-registered-voters-with-single-post
Good. Lord. I was away from Mastodon 2 hours and return to find 67 notifications! Whoa! Hey, a “viral post” and it’s not even my original content. Glad to know others are as amazed as I seeing this come up in news. I’ll post a bit later why this is especially funny to me since an hour ago I had a strange encounter at the grocery.
Julie WebgirlI'm telling you, Taylor Swift is how we get ourselves out of the shit-show we're in.
Taylor I'm begging you, wear an #N95! Like... always! Please!
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey@cobalt Wow. She's really pretty. It'll be interesting when she's president.
Flaming Cheeto@cobalt remember about 15 years ago when Kanye was the truth to power SJC and she was thought to be the little white darling beloved by the neo Nazis?
@PizzaDemon Yes I do remember that! Well great to have something so powerful to celebrate. I’m sure there are many types and ages of these new voters but seriously, youth voters rock!
TeflonTrout@cobalt Yep, the kids are alright
Nicole ParsonsI think back to how Kanye West ruined Taylor Swift's first major award ceremony.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/26/20828559/taylor-swift-kanye-west-2009-mtv-vmas-explained
Kanye West turned into an anti-democracy GOP operative, stopping POC from having their vote count in Georgia.
https://people.com/kanye-west-former-publicist-charged-trump-georgia-indictment-7643505
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/07/trump-lawyer-helped-kanye-west-try-get-wisconsins-ballot/3313650001/
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/901534846/heres-how-republicans-are-boosting-kanye-west-s-presidential-campaign
Taylor Swift turned into a pro-voting hero instead, the kind that gets women, POC, and immigrants their chance at voting.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/09/voter-registrations-skyrocket-after-taylor-swift-instagram-post.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/taylor-swift-told-fans-register-vote-vote-35k/story?id=103379385
TransitBiker@cobalt that’s cool, but we shouldn’t need famous people to tell us to participate in our democracy.
TheJen"Shouldn't" and "do" are two completely different things.
Should we need her? No
Do we? Absolutely.