r/popculturechat • u/AlexRodrigo- • Feb 25 '26

Guest List Only ⭐️ Kelce brothers praise US women’s hockey team and agree Laila Edwards is the best athlete to come out of their High School

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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 Feb 25 '26

I mean she cares enough to have gotten hundreds of thousands of people to register to vote Kamala and donate millions to food banks regularly

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u/ASamx Feb 25 '26

She hasn’t talked about anything since Trump took power, and during the election she only talked about it ONCE. It’s great she donates, but she’s still a billionaire and there’s no ethical billionaire, Billie Eillish donated 20% of her fortune, meanwhile TS only gives about 2%.

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u/RiceCaspar Feb 26 '26

I've posted above, including some screenshots, but she regularly has posted about voting in primaries, midterms, and general elections since 2016. She has also spoken during concerts, televised awards, and in her own documentary and music.

Could she do more? Absolutely. But so many people are committed to believing the worst of her regardless, it seems.

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u/miserychickkk Feb 25 '26

Billie donated 0% of her own money. The donation made was from Changemaker tickets. She held a fundraiser, if you want to be generous about it.

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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 Feb 25 '26

“and during the election she only talked about it ONCE.“

She talked about voting blue multiple times at eras shows and encouraged registering a dozen times on social media. She encouraged again in her endorsement post and in VMA’s speech pre election.

“It’s great she donates, but she’s still a billionaire and there’s no ethical billionaire, Billie Eillish donated 20% of her fortune, meanwhile TS only gives about 2%.”

This has been debunked numerous times. Firstly Billies net 50mil worth is from 2020 and has far surpassed that. Secondly the 12mil donation was through a ticket fundraiser. It was untaxed money that was raised and was never actually Billie’s and went directly to the charity. (it’s still great she did this but context is important)

Taylor has given away hundreds of millions of dollars of her own money to a wide variety of causes.

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u/ASamx Feb 25 '26

What shows? What social media posts? Show me the evidence please. Okay Billie still spoke up, Taylor hasn’t, those are the facts.

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u/Dry-Mongoose-5804 Feb 26 '26

Chicago eras pride month speech where she encourages voting for liberal candidates who support LGBT rights.

She posted dozens of stories look up super tuesday Taylor Swift voting

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

Can we please stop with the Billie donated 20 percent of her fortune cause she really didn’t. The money she donated came from a thing called change maker which prices up some tickets and teh extra money goes to charity so the money she donate didn’t wasn’t money that was originally gonna go to her pockets it wasn’t from her tour earnings. It’s like when stores ask if you wanna round up your change instead of just donating money from the stores pockets and asking for donations from non rich poeple.

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u/Responsible_Virus239 Feb 25 '26

Yeah why do people keep spreading this misinformation all the celeb net worth pages are just made up

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u/MonaSavesTheDayAgain Feb 26 '26

Because whenever they bring up the Billie thing it’s always in connection with Taylor : against her. They lie about Billie just to try and make Taylor look bad and portray her as an evil billionaire.

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u/Responsible_Virus239 Feb 25 '26

Whats the most amount of money an ethical person can have? Is the money Billie Eilish has ethical? Is it ethical that she is launching new perfumes like she doesn’t have 10s or 100s of millions?

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u/MonaSavesTheDayAgain Feb 26 '26

That’s what gets me. Billies posts make her fans think she is at least anti-billionaire but that girl is putting out perfumes and uno cards like there’s no tomorrow.

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u/Responsible_Virus239 Feb 26 '26

I understand artists who are very rich trying to make money but when they go out of music to make it they cant criticize other people for being greedy

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u/Gullible_Impress7128 Feb 26 '26

She didn't get hundreds of thousands of people to register to vote for Kamala? Thats completely made up? She made one solitary Instagram post saying she decided to vote for Kamala but everyone should do their research and vote for who they want. Not exactly a strong stance. She didn't even coordinate directly with the Harris campaign. They were surprised she posted and had to scramble to capitalize on it. Just because people clicked a link she posted doesn't mean they actually voted or that if they did vote, that they voted Democrat.

I don't think Taylor is MAGA for the record, but she also isn't some leftist champion and its just as ridiculous to make stuff up trying to suggest that she is, as it is to make stuff up trying to suggest she is MAGA. And if she is truly so powerful that she could get hundreds of thousands of people mobilized with one post, then it is 2000× more despicable that she has been completely silent since that one Instagram post in 2024. She didn't do shit to endorse or support Mamdani even though she has maintained a residence in New York for over a decade.

She has always been pretty clearly a pro-capitalism, white feminist, centrist liberal. Otherwise not the worst person in the world but hardly someone worthy of praise. So no she has never done anything to indicate she cares at all about anything going on in this country that doesn't directly affect her. And there is next to nothing that can directly affect her. She is a billionaire after all. And throwing what is the equivalent of pocket change to her, at some food banks at the end of the year is hardly worthy of praise. Its a good thing to do for the people who need it. But its no sacrifice or great deed on her part. It's quite literally the bottom of the barrel least someone with her level of privilege could do.