here are some hyper-polluting individuals:
- the Rolling Stones’ Boeing 767 (5,046 tonnes of CO2)
- Lawrence Stroll (1,512 flights)
- Thirty-nine jets linked to 30 Russian oligarchs – (30,701 tonnes of CO2)
relevant quote:
But I will say this, a movement can't get along without a devil, and across the whole political spectrum there is a misogynistic tendency to choose a female devil, whether it's Anita Bryant, Hillary Clinton, Marie Antoinette, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or J.K. Rowling [or Taylor Swift]. And there's always gonna be people who seize on any opportunity to be misogynistic. So I would advise trans people and our allies [or environmentalists] to keep in mind, that J.K. Rowling [Taylor Swift] is not the final boss of transphobia [anti-environmentalism]. She's not our devil. The devil is the Republican Party, the Conservative Party.
—Natalie Wynn (emphasis and bracket text mine)
edit: if you can’t respond to this without using the c*nt expletive it is not helping your case lmao. mods are we okay with this? in any case, please don’t feed the trolls.
edit 2/FAQ: “but why did she threaten legal action against that college kid though?” still shitty, but refer to this comment for a good explanation of the context behind that decision.
She only threatened legal action since those memes started before when her flight movements got the attention of the right in an attempt to make her less credible of a voice speaking out against trump. And knowing how batshit insane trump cultists can be and how she’s basically the single most hated person of his base I’m not surprised that she feared for her security. Those records were public for years but the legal action only happened after someone created that meme and even fox news suddenly cared about plane emissions…
[…] For Swift, this is legitimate fear. I don't know if you've ever experienced actual fear for your life, but it's crippling, and it effects your psyche. To experience that on a daily basis because of an app? You bet your goddamn ass I'm going to talk to my lawyers about what my options are.
sources/timeline for the above:
- mid 2022, the media begins scrutinizing Swift for her flying patterns
- in response, Swift’s jet drops from 19 to just over 2 flights per month
- her flights pick up slightly with the start of her massive Eras tour but still significantly less than pre-July 2022
- December 6, 2023, Swift embroiled in election conspiracy theory, basically making her MAGA’s enemy number one.
- January 30, 2024, Taylor Swift gets rid of one private jet
- February 6, 2024, news outlets first report on the cease and desist.
Remember when Taylor Swift urged her audience to go out and vote? I can't escape the feeling that riffing constantly on her carbon footprint is a retaliation for that. They finally found something about her to latch on to.
The entire campaign started as a chantard response to her vote statement, fully gamergate equivalent. The old meme engines never stopped memeing the entire time.
No, this started because she sent a cease and desist letter to the guy that's tracking her jet and threatened to sue him even though he's done literally nothing wrong.
It was going before that.
emphatically but with understanding, this is not how things started. it might be when you became aware of it but you are getting the timeline out of order by quite a bit.
It's why the memes started.
Or if you want to go back further this started with Elon Musks jet being tracked.
see the original post text, i have updated it with sources which clarify the timeline :)
Respectfully and sincerely, those links show you don't know the timeliness as well as you think you do.
Her jet usage has been a topic of controversy for a while now.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-private-jet-carbon-dioxide-emissions-study-1235120514/
That article is from June 2022.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet
Then ElonJet was around since 2020 and blew up in 2021 when Musk offered the kid some money to take it down.
i don’t really like that you phrased this as an would-be insult, especially as i am very aware of these dates and articles and that they only reinforce my position that taylor swift has been under scrutiny for this long before the Sweeney cease and desist.
thank you for these links, i’ll incorporate them into the post timeline :)
Oh my sweet eternal september child...
Yeah no shit. They're terrified of her, and her influence over young people.
The GOP knows that their only viable strategy is to get fewer people to vote, and the easiest way to do that is to disenfranchise young voters. So they see Taylor as a direct threat to their only means of validly winning an election.
I just don't understand this. In any reasonable conversation, these two things have nothing to do with each other.
Who is reading Swift memes and thinking "Man, I was going to vote, but seeing how much she jets around has really made me not want to anymore."
You all Swifties are as conspiratorial as the QAnon folks.