Sydney Sweeney is a pretty young lady.

[Missourian]

Leftist snowflakes are easily triggered.

It's Maslow's Hammer, Liberal Edition

When you're seeking perpetual victimhood, every interaction is a new opportunity to find an 'oppressor'.

This is how you win the gold medal in the Woke Olympics!

 

[Frankenstein]

I see...

Has anyone on the far right spoken against the SECDEF's feelings that women shouldn't vote yet?

Figure it out and start a thread!

 

[Frankenstein]

Well, they're made in China. But somehow thats just fine (for the time being). I'm sure the right wing will turn on her eventually.

Why, is she Chinese?

 

[Rawley]

Within the last 48 hours, the US SECDEF apparently re-tweeted/posted a message saying women couldn't vote. I've been busy and haven't seen it but the story is below.

Perhaps you should have seen what he retweeted before your got all outraged about it. Your post confirms the OP's proposition.

 

[Rawley]

My guess is social media blew up over this nothingburger and so it became a fabricated controversy. Which is why I am only vaguely aware of it. I don't use social media, never have. This pile of shit explains why.

I don't think Dem's should be asked to defend the actions of a "small cadre of extremely online lefty posters" any more than I think Repub's should be asked to defend a few right wing morons who shot up a bunch of beer cans. It's bread and circuses for the weak minded.

I assume you don't watch MSNBC either

Opinion | Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad reflects a darker side of pop culture trends

Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling.

www.msnbc.com

Or ABC or CBS or NBC or read the NYTimes or the WaPo.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

TemplarKormac

It's sunk cost. The left has been investing in identity politics for 25 years. This IS who they are now. Everything is racist, everything is sexist, everything is fascist.

This stupidity has to play itself out like the Dutch Tulip Mania...and the identity politics marked hasn't completely imploded yet.

Democrats need to mock this behavior to end it...and they can't, because they NEED these useful idiots that THEY created to vote Democrat now more than ever.

So Democrats will continue to mollycoddle and tacitly suborn this behavior for the sole purpose of not alienating them... because POWER is their only motivation.

You're wrong-headed, but not stupid. You see this as clearly as I do. So why not call it out as clearly?

Because you're one of the mollycoddlers. Be BLUNT! Tell it like it is. This shit is stupid, and if you're pushing it, you're stupid.

they found a way around the problem. Socialism!

The Socialist Surge: DSA’s Bold Plan to Take Over the Democratic Party

DSA's Chicago convention showcases their ambitions and growing influence in the Democratic Party.

townhall.com

 

[mudwhistle]

I still have not bought any jeans or pretty young gals

I have plenty of jeans and jean shirts.

 

[DonGlock26]

How in the world is that political, you might ask? It's because that otherwise benign commericial that she's in sparked YET ANOTHER racially-charged, politically-charged firestorm that originated on the Left. I wish the entire Left would read this piece in Politico today: The Sydney Sweeney Saga Shows Why Republicans Keep Winning -- written by a Democrat and Harris campaign worker.

For the blissfully uninitiated: The actress Sydney Sweeney was the face of a new ad for American Eagle where they say she has “good jeans.” This is obviously a play on “good genes,” which to most people was a reference to how she is good looking, and to a small cadre of extremely online lefty posters and SEO-chasing online media outlets was a reference to Nazism and eugenics. The right made a whole thing about it, accusing Democrats of being out-of-touch scolds, and somehow Democrats have found themselves on the defensive. The episode caused confusion, consternation and a wave of Democrats performatively affirming that yes, they too think Sydney Sweeney is beautiful. Welcome to 2025.

You might be wondering why anybody cares about this. But here’s the thing: The fact that this moment became a thing at all — that a stupid pun could metastasize into a full-blown political moment — says something real about the media ecosystem we’re all trapped in. And it says even more about why Democrats keep losing the culture war, and with it, the narrative war that inevitably shapes who wins elections.

Does the middle class care about this story? Does the working class care about this story? I doubt it.

The Dems are past just dropping the PC/Identity Politics shit and re-focusing on the Middle Class. It should APOLOGIZE for the all horseshit it has unloaded on the American public over the last couple of decades, ADMIT that it has gone too far, and THEN re-focus on the Middle Class.

Democrats hate White people, straight people, and Christian people. It's not a winning strategy, but that's who they are- secular humanist/atheist, cultural Marxists.

 

[Clipper]

How in the world is that political, you might ask? It's because that otherwise benign commericial that she's in sparked YET ANOTHER racially-charged, politically-charged firestorm that originated on the Left. I wish the entire Left would read this piece in Politico today: The Sydney Sweeney Saga Shows Why Republicans Keep Winning -- written by a Democrat and Harris campaign worker.

For the blissfully uninitiated: The actress Sydney Sweeney was the face of a new ad for American Eagle where they say she has “good jeans.” This is obviously a play on “good genes,” which to most people was a reference to how she is good looking, and to a small cadre of extremely online lefty posters and SEO-chasing online media outlets was a reference to Nazism and eugenics. The right made a whole thing about it, accusing Democrats of being out-of-touch scolds, and somehow Democrats have found themselves on the defensive. The episode caused confusion, consternation and a wave of Democrats performatively affirming that yes, they too think Sydney Sweeney is beautiful. Welcome to 2025.

You might be wondering why anybody cares about this. But here’s the thing: The fact that this moment became a thing at all — that a stupid pun could metastasize into a full-blown political moment — says something real about the media ecosystem we’re all trapped in. And it says even more about why Democrats keep losing the culture war, and with it, the narrative war that inevitably shapes who wins elections.

Does the middle class care about this story? Does the working class care about this story? I doubt it.

The Dems are past just dropping the PC/Identity Politics shit and re-focusing on the Middle Class. It should APOLOGIZE for the all horseshit it has unloaded on the American public over the last couple of decades, ADMIT that it has gone too far, and THEN re-focus on the Middle Class.

I'm more concerned about the horseshit Trump has unloaded on this country in the past seven months alone.

But go ahead & attack Dems over Sydney Sweeney.

 

[Midnight FM]

Democrats hate White people, straight people, and Christian people. It's not a winning strategy, but that's who they are- secular humanist/atheist, cultural Marxists.

Statistically, I don't think that most Democrats are "secular humanist or atheist". And you haven't defined those terms particularly well.

And I'm not sure what "cultural Marxist" even means either.

 

[Synthaholic]

It's because that otherwise benign commericial that she's in sparked YET ANOTHER racially-charged, politically-charged firestorm that originated on the Left.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Sorry, dude, but this is just factually incorrect. I converted a thread from journalist David Roberts. It's the same old Republican/ FoxNews game.

Page by David Roberts | @volts.wtf

I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational. First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares. Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.

skywriter.blue

I want to do a about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's extremely revealing & educational.​

​

First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.​

​

Let's look at the structure of the episode.​

​

There's a template, which I'm certain American Eagle understands quite well:​

1. release something ambiguously controversial, which yields​

2. a backlash from libs, which yields​

3. a backlash to the backlash from the vast "anti-woke" media, which yields​

4. weeks of coverage & boosted jeans sales.​

​

At this point, everyone understands the template & is using it to their advantage. There are legions of people & institutions out there desperately trying to trigger one of these cycles by being controversial. Cancel me, no, no, cancel me! Over here! Look at me being edgy! No, no, over here!​

​

It's so tired. But there's one key feature of this cycle, as it currently runs, that I want to focus on:​

​

Step No. 2? The lib backlash that drives the whole thing? It doesn't have to be real! You can just make it up!​

​

The thing is, social media is vast. No matter what you say or do, you can find someone out there objecting to it on "woke" grounds. You just need to find two or three random comments, attribute the sentiment to "Democrats," & then demand that a bunch of Dems respond to it.​

​

It's really key to understand this: they don't need actual backlash of any substance or scale to run this cycle. All they need is a few random comments, which they can always find, which means that you can basically run this cycle at will. You don't need libs to play along at all!​

​

That's the skeleton key to understanding this whole episode: there was no lib backlash to the Sweeney ad. There were a few random online comments. That's it. But they ginned that up into a full-fledged, media-dominating news cycle that has been running for weeks now.​

​

What we see is a whole vast media apparatus, a machine, that runs on this ginned-up bullshit. Right-wing outlets coordinate to drive it into the media cycle & then reactionary conservative outlets like the Free Press or Bill f'ing Maher's show take the baton, running with it.​

​

The reactionary centrist take depends on resolutely ignoring the real source of the story & instead pretending that libs, or even more absurdly, Dems are responsible for it being in the news. "Why are Dems talking about Sidney Sweeney instead of egg prices? This is why they lose, etc. etc."​

​

It can't be exaggerated how many grifters out there on the internet, making Insta reels & TikToks, depend on these cycles. They work tirelessly to generate them. I mean seriously, just go search Sweeney: pages & pages & pages of results, dozens, hundreds of people commenting on it. Weeks!​

​

Everyone gets what they want out of it:​

1. The right gets to put Dems on the back foot again, forcing them to address nonsense designed to make them look bad.​

2. The reactionary centrist media machine, awash in old-guy donor money, gets content.​

3. Dem elites & consultants get to shit on the left.​

​

So, to recap: they spun a "lib backlash to Sweeney" up out of basically nothing & it provided weeks of content for the vast network of people & institutions who get money & attention by shitting on the left, convincing the billionaires that the left (not the f'ing fascists) are the real threat.​

 

[Synthaholic]

Why am I spending so much time dissecting this silly & ultimately meaningless episode?

Because, friends, hear me: this is the template for the last 10 years of US politics. This is the US politics in a nutshell. This is how it all works.

The whole "woke" hysteria & backlash? "Cancel culture"? It was all this! The controversy over bahn mi in the college cafeteria. The HR guidance that instructed people to say "pregnant people." The trans girl who wanted to swim on the HS team.

These are not things Dems chose to talk about!

The template is, the right drives this dumb shit into the conversation, the reactionary centrists take the baton and push it into mainstream media, and then everyone asks, "why are Dems focusing on this stuff?"

They aren't, you credulous ******* dipshits! They didn't do this!

If you are asking "why are Dems talking about Sweeney instead of egg prices?" you are either a) an absolutely hopeless mark for grifters, or b) one of those grifters.

For "Sweeney," substitute any one of the dozens of culture-war fights over the last decade. The right wants these, not the left.

This all seems quite obvious to me -- it's the same goddamn cycle running over & over again -- but what baffles & infuriates me is how many Dems, even Dems of good faith, fall for it. "Yes, we suck, yes, we're focused on silly woke stuff, yes, shit on us more." Get a ******* spine.

Anyway, to summarize/conclude: this silly Sweeney cycle, wherein a largely imaginary lib backlash leads to weeks of everyone shitting on Dems, is the entire last decade of US politics in miniature. Dems are forced to answer for any & every rando that anyone can find online ...

... while Republicans are never, ever forced to answer for the fact that their ranks are ridden with open nazis, racists, sexual predators, and thugs.

There's a machine, funded by billionaires, running this scam over & over again. Maybe stop taking the bait. </fin>

 

[Moonglow]

I have plenty of jeans and jean shirts.

All you need is a young gal to show you how to live.

 

[theHawk]

The Dems are past just dropping the PC/Identity Politics shit and re-focusing on the Middle Class. It should APOLOGIZE for the all horseshit it has unloaded on the American public over the last couple of decades, ADMIT that it has gone too far, and THEN re-focus on the Middle Class

Poor Mac, he really wants the Dems to go back to pretending they are moderate.

That ship has sailed. They have been driven so insane all they know is doubling down on stupid.

Now go back to joining their choir and scream about how fascist and bigoted everyone is for not accepting and promoting leftwing politics.

 

[CowboyTed]

So you think it's stupid and anyone pushing this identity politics idiocy is a moronic imbecile...yes?

You're the one these dipshits will listen to, not me.

The answer isn't that absolute...

In this case it is clearly overreaching...

But when someone is beating the shit out of black guy at a traffic stop because he is black.
OR
Hispanic US Citizens getting arrested by ICE without probable cause...

Hey, that is different...

The ad was a bit stupid but better things to worry about...

I would be asking more how the President of the US was described as the best friend of a pedophile sex monster and has two women saying the President sexually assaulted or raped them in Epstein's company...
Now that is worth looking at...

 

[mudwhistle]

All you need is a young gal to show you how to live.

I found a 56 year old gal.

Compared to me she's young.

I'm used to being the young one.

 

[struth]

I'm more concerned about the horseshit Trump has unloaded on this country in the past seven months alone.

But go ahead & attack Dems over Sydney Sweeney.

Seeing how concerned the left is over Sweeney sort of makes me realize why you all have a 19 percent approval rating

 

[CowboyTed]

Now, watch and laugh as clowns like CowboyTed claim MSNBC has nothing to do with the Democrat party.

So you don't have any senior Democrat...

You have a TV channel looking for ratings...

 

[CowboyTed]

Seeing how concerned the left is over Sweeney sort of makes me realize why you all have a 19 percent approval rating

Who from the Democrats commented about this?

 

[yidnar]

His point was that Democrats should apologize for the actions of what he admits are a "small cadre" of "far left" people. Yeah...it was silly.

Ummm no. Was pointing out how the right wing makes everything a battle for the nation's soul and how silly it is that so many people buy into the outrage.

Did Bud Light make you gay?

your party claiming that the POTUS is a NAZI is ok though right ?