I think we would agree on a lot. Even our disagreement here - a weak endorsement vs a non-endorsement - isn’t that far off from one another.

You’re initial point was that she is a musician so nobody should care what she thinks, a straight up ad hominem, and now your whining about as hominems? I might be quite proficient at ad hominems, but your proficiency with hypocrisy puts mine to shame.

I can’t tell if you are actually this clueless or just disingenuous.

She can not vote at all, vote for someone else on the ballot, or write in whoever she wants. There is no forcing here. Certainly she was not forced to announce her decision. You seem to keep ignoring that second part. Your attempt to paint her actions here as “forced like a gun was to her head” is actually as cringe a you claimed my argument is.

And I couldn’t care less if this artist endorses Harris. I had never even heard of her before this and probably wouldn’t have heard about this endorsement if it weren’t for it making it here on lemmy. Your attempts to project your “taking sides” is your issue alone and not mine. I’m not the one who has, not once but twice, tried to paint her position as equivalent to having a gun to her head. You’re the one who feels compelled to make objectively ridiculous arguments in order to defend your position.

Funny, you have now moved the goal posts from “forced” to “she feels pressured” without a single admission that you used the wrong word.

Look, I recognize that it’s a weak endorsement, I’m not pretending it is something it’s not. But, by definition, it’s an endorsement; she publicly stated who she is voting for, revealing that she thinks the best way to cast her vote at this point is for harris. You just don’t want to accept the definition of word of “endorsement” and now “forced.” Endorsement doesn’t mean you’re over the moon ecstatic about the candidate. Plenty of right wings and conservatives have endorsed Harris, not because they agree with her policies but that they recognize what a disaster trump is for the country.

All it means is that you publicly show your support for a candidate…which she literally did by publicly saying she would vote for Harris.

So wait, are you suggesting that she is forced to vote and forced to announce who she is voting for? I don’t follow your response.

And if and when it gets passed, the conservative scotus, which has constantly ruled in favor of states rights being nearly unlimited and that precedent or other writings about the cotus don’t count, will buck both these trends and vote that this violates the cotus based on some obscure writing by some founding father.

I know, I wouldn’t have it any other way. The only reason you think that’s some kind of dig is because you are hung up about being a nobody yourself.

Being forced into making a choice you don’t like, and voicing a public approval of someone’s candidacy?

? We don’t have mandatory voting, she isn’t forced to vote at all. Additionally, she isn’t forced to publicly say who she is voting for. I see the distinction when it comes to being forced to do something, the question I have now is if you understand the word forced because it doesn’t appear that way.

You asked me what I was implying, I told you nothing, then pointed to my explicit point.

The difference between you and I is that I’m not a nobody hypocritically telling other people to not try and publicly defend their beliefs.

It doesn’t. It’s almost like you are wilfully ignorant about thinking critically.

Just so I’m clear:

She is neither being forced to vote for anyone, nor forced to let us know who she voted for. So, no, you’re not clear about it at all.

That’s a lame take. Unless you personally are running, you’re not going to agree with everything a candidate says.

That seems to be almost the exact opposite of saying you have to agree with all of the policies of the left.

Nothing, I explicitly said “we should be as skeptical of that which supports our beliefs as we are of that which contradicts it.” I don’t know how I could have made it more clear.

What does voting for someone do if not show support for them? In a democracy it’s the ultimate form of support.

And I never said they did.

She is telling the world that she thinks Harris is the best choice to vote for in this election. It’s 100% an endorsement. Literally by definition. People seem to be confusing endorsing someone to marrying yourself to all of their views.

Don’t be so proud of your ignorance. Just look it up.

I’ve literally never heard anything even remotely close to this. Can you point me to someone who has said something that would make this an even remotely fair assessment?