Pressure from famous people really shouldn't be allowed to shape national policy, but man in this case I'm not complaining. Good on them.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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If the policy is let's let it be legal to kill children in hospitals and support genocides we can make exceptions
it's a good way to show popularity. right or wrong.
There's 44,999,700 non-famous people also urging the PM to end UK complicity in Gaza, but that's not going to sell clicks
Some politicians are famous too. Politicians these days don't seem smart and in America especially, we're not electing the smartest bunch. We actually elected a reality TV star. Famous people have a platform and they see what we see also.
Republicans have elected celebrities without political background into the highest office in the country four times
Same with Boris.
The rest come from journalism.
Huh, I thought I followed UK politics pretty closely for a foreigner but I had no idea he had a celebrity background.
He always did the comedy news panels like Have I Got News For You. Built his profile in the media. Not exactly a celebrity, but one of the most known in terms of TV profile.
Boris was a journalist before politics.
Yeah I know, that's what got him started on being a celebrity.
A journalist caught making stuff up shouldn't be called one
Obviously not Reagan as he was leader of SAG-AFTRA, so apart from Trump who were the other three?
Literally hundreds of celebrities from entertainment to sports, and every organisation couldn't shut up about ukraine.
They were sooo involved, concerned and activist.
Easy if it supports 'our side'.
Where are they now?
Bunch of hypocrites.
It was the same with any war.
When it's long over they were always against it.
There is a famous post from, I think the guitar player for rage against the machine where someone calls him out for being just another celebrity that shouldn't have a political opinion. He claps back with his political Science degree. Celebrities are people. They can be extremely intelligent. Marketing/PR reps and talent managers are the clueless ones that have made celebrity synonymous with stupidity.
That's nice to here I always liked Cumberbum