#a DISTRESSINGLY large portion of MY taxes goes to funding them and i hate it

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Taylor in a photograph with the monarchy and her republican bf (also funny with the og meaning of republican)

I mean I'm not surprised but I am like girl really. Standards

Wait, Travis is a republican? Didn’t he endorse the covid vaccine and support BLM? In my admittedly limited European leftist layman’s understanding of American politics, that would surely make him a centrist at most, but I may be missing something - frankly I don’t care all that much about him.

Taylor though… The unfortunate reality is, Taylor is her own person with her own moral code, which likely to be very different than yours or mine by virtue of her being an insanely wealthy cishet white woman. Of course she's not gonna see an issue with normalising royals as if they're just regular celebrities. She's not one of the many people whose tax money funds the BRF's unearned privilege, and she sure as hell isn't one of the countless people who've suffered and continue to suffer under that family's legacy, is she?

At this point I don't really expect much from her in terms of political action. That’s not to say I no longer wish she would advocate more actively for progressive causes or to please rethink her private jet usage. Of course I want that! Let’s not stop calling her out and talking about how she could do better! All I’m saying here is, being so invested in her ability to live up to the leftist moral standard that I felt personally betrayed when she failed to do so was unhealthy for me. I decided when the MH thing happened to stop being so emotionally invested in Taylor’s politics, and I’m taking this as confirmation that that was the right choice for me.