Chappell Roan Clarifies Her Stance on the 2024 Election

[swissbeauty23]

Chappell Roan clarifies her stance on the 2024 Presidential Election in new video.
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- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 25, 2024

This comes after the singer recently received lots of backlash for saying "there’s problems on both sides" and "“I have so many issues with our government in every way. There are so many things

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[imnotasquirrel]

lmfao oh boy let's see how this post goes

istg i'm not even a chappell stan - her "i don't care about the fame~" shtick always made me roll my eyes even before the VMAs snafu - but all the ppl attacking her in bad faith have me in the trenches lol. i saw ppl on twitter (a lot of swifties tbqh!) accusing her of being a centrist or even being closet maga. lmfao.

way too many people also seem to equate endorsement with voting, which might be a failure of our educational system, idk. insert that pancakes vs waffles meme here. someone said in the other post that she already said she was voting for kamala, so clearly she thinks that one side is demonstrably worse, although ia she could have been more articulate with her "both sides" comment. not that i disagree that both sides ARE bad, but at this point it has become a centrist dogwhistle so better to just stay away from that phrasing altogether. (still dumb as fuck to accuse her of being centrist though.)

[mammary_glands]

last post let me know ontd is truly filled with some of the dumbest bitches on earth

[imnotasquirrel]

It's (not really) funny, but I'll see people on reddit, ontd, etc. "concede" that Kamala "isn't perfect," which is such a crazy understatement it's offensive. Talk about mealy mouthed milquetoast equivocating bullshit. And then they'll excoriate Chappell for...being inarticulate with how she says things. I guess enabling genocide warrants tepid/gentle criticism more than (inarticulately) criticizing genocide enablers does lol.

And just as another disclaimer bc the last post taught me that ONTD is incapable of discernment, I am going to vote for Kamala. I live in a fucking swing state, you don't have to tell me that Trump is worse. But I'm not going to begrudge someone from California if they feel differently (as long as they don't vote for Jill Stein lmfao).

(chappell, girl, get yourself a PR agent though, stat.)

[mammary_glands]

you don't have to reflexively defend yourself, dork. this just gave me the ick so bad omg...

[imnotasquirrel]

shut up, it's late and I don't want to deal with the neolibs who can't read!

[inandoutofgrace]

they can’t read or just love to pop off with shitty opinions 😒

[kebedes]

I've missed most of this discourse, but the disproportionate anger is what gets me.
Committing genocide? Hey, nobody's perfect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Criticizing someone who's committing genocide and pledged to continue to do so? What a fucking idiot. Don't you know the other guy will do the thing that our candidate will also do, except he won't even pretend to feel bad about it?

[imnotasquirrel]

yep, dems will at least have empathy! empathy that manifests itself in ways such as gleefully telling muslim/palestinian/arab voters that they deserve to be deported if trump wins!

[vanilla_09]

In the context of all the other nonsense and incoherent statements like ¨people from the coasts are kinda priviledged¨ or whatever and being very open to criticizing Kamala but wanting to keep the peace with her hypothetical probably very real maga family members and social circle, but then yes trans rights, but both sides are bad, she's the poster child for centrism. 🤷🏾‍♀️ But idk, y'all seem to think that at 26 y/o, she's too young to have nuanced, well formed thoughts.

[imnotasquirrel]

she's only the poster child for centrism if you have a literacy problem

[vanilla_09]

Lol y'all have no idea what you're talking about and just throw around the word literacy when to make yourselves feel better. Good luck out there.

[mammary_glands]

Speaking of people throwing around words, what did you mean by "she's the poster child for centrism" when she's the leftist with values to reflect that and the person you're voting for is a war hawk endorsed by Bush era war criminals and torture advocates?

[vanilla_09]

Do you not understand that political ideals vary according to the issue at hand, and that lip service is one hell of a drug as she demonstrates in this video? How can someone call themselves a leftist without having the courage to confront their closest family members on very important issues closer to home, while being applauded for their advocacy against genocide? A centrist or would a hypocrite make that more palatable for you? Y’all are making Palestine/Palestinians as some kind of brownie point as though your average person isn’t also in some shitty deal. Do you think the average citizen, especially marginalized wants to participate in a genocidal regime? This is what I mean when I say that you internet twitter fingers don't understand anything and think you have empathy and nuance but don't. Log off.

[mammary_glands]

It's interesting to me that the people who are the most defensive about smearing Chappell Roan for refusing to officially endorse a candidate are also the ones loudly projecting onto others. You don't actually know what anyone here does in their personal life. But this profile fits because one would have to go into their imagination in order to believe that Chappell Roan is a centrist or, as others have said, a right-wing shill and secret Trump supporter. There's no material evidence to support any of these smears. Rather, the evidence is that she's deeply principled and well informed on a range of progressive issues and is walking the walk in every aspect of her politics.

[imnotasquirrel]

But this profile fits because one would have to go into their imagination in order to believe that Chappell Roan is a centrist

gotta think it's a way for people who are insecure about their own political beliefs to feel more virtuous. you see, it's not that chappell is more progressive than they are, it's that she's just a goddamn centrist!

anyone else see that old pewresearch political affiliation poll that made the rounds last week? basically someone in the khive was having a BSOD meltdown when the poll told them that they were ambivalent right, not the progressive (or even liberal) hero they thought they were lmfao. and it was a shitty poll that leaned right to begin with!

[mammary_glands]

A lot of KHivers realized they were shitlibs that day 😭

"you see, it's not that chappell is more progressive than they are, it's that she's just a goddamn centrist!"

This is the cognitive dissonance that makes me giggle in horror, because if this is the context we're analyzing people's politics in, what do you mean Chappell is the centrist and somehow you're not?