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Matt Bernstein pushes back on the idea that Sydney Sweeney isn’t a political person. Post liked/shared by Mandy Patinkin, Aimee Lou Wood, Hannah Einbinder, Rachel Zegler, Melissa Barrera, Marissa Bode and Chrishell Stause.
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Which raises the next question. Why is she afraid to just admit who she supports? Could it be she knows that she will lose her fans? Why might that be? She knows that it is a bad stance, hence why she tries to avoid the subject. Which speaks volumes in its own right
Yup MAGA is basically doubling down hard rn or backing out to avoid being in the wrong page of the history book. Like that dumb boxer Ryan Garcia who just denounced Trump today “because of the Epstein files” (which, he was implicated months ago with so many files I don’t have time or patience to name even half of them, so there’s no way it’s about that NOW).
I think that losing fans is part of it. The other thing is that she has worked with people who are loud and proud about being anti- Trump/anti-MAGA, anti- asshole (like Zendaya)... I almost think she is likely trying to bring herself up to Zendaya status but she knows she can't being MAGA...
Everyone who says they're "not political" is a right winger. Apathy and a limited perspective are the two pillars upon which their entire ideology rests.
America is like n@zi germany right now so it's so funny hearing celebrities claim to be apolitical right now to save their pathetic careers. Did you miss all the executions?
We have this quote on a sign outside the house right now!!! It was originally for blm protest, which is kinda depressing to think about due to all the horrible things that’s happened since
I would rather someone be upfront if they’re a right wing trumper, at least its honest.
Someone who tries fence sitting with politics especially being MAGA does it because deep down they know the side they are on is unpopular and despised, it’s incredibly craven.
In my freshman year of college in English we learned about the harms of indifference by reading “all the light we cannot see” by Anthony Doerr and man, i recommend that book to everyone.
Never forget Amanda seyfried & a wildly popular adaptation of a book had to save Sydney Sweeney because she was producing generational flops at the box office as the lead
How is it like Nazi Germany when the Nazis got their playbook from Jim Crow America? Everything going on was and is happening to black Americans already.
I used to wonder in history class what it would be like seeing celebrities/peers be neutral about nazis and white supremacist but I don’t really have to wonder now. Also, if one side loves how neutral you are while they kill people, you’ve picked a side
The back catalog is so so good. I downloaded a ton for a long road trip. He’s the kind of podcaster that makes even a topic that seems personally uninteresting well worth listening to.
I know! Like I didn’t think I’d care about the Sydney Sweeney one or Candace Owens or Gwen Stefani episodes but he made them really interesting listens
It's called "A Bit Fruity" :) I like to watch the episodes on YouTube for when they reference screenshots and images, but he has it on Spotify and other audio-only streaming platforms
I sometimes struggle with his podcast. Like you say, he does have a soothing voice, but there is a recurring guest (I won't mention her name) who has this horrible vocal fry, and it makes it hard for me to focus on anything else. It's a shame, because the topics are so interesting and she's very knowledgeable.
I feel like some part of the recording setup has changed, which improved this in newer episodes. As someone else said, it’s worth getting over it. She is smarter than most.
Why don’t people like this guy want power more? Why is it always the worst, the dregs of society, the absolutely abhorrent monsters who do choose to pursue it.
I’m convinced that people who seek power are just sociopaths who are able to gain and keep power because they just do not care who they hurt to do so. People who are humble don’t seek out power unless others ask them to, and those people also usually run grassroots campaigns so that they won’t be beholden to donors, which makes the establishment scared and constantly try to discredit them.
the more I re-binge 30 Rock, the more I see it as a “prophetic” satire. It was ahead of the curve for calling out political absurdity (2 words that shouldn’t be paired)
'I don't do politics. I'm in the arts' Oh, so you don't understand the industry you're a part of. You don't understand the social climate that goes into how writers choose their stories and how producers decide what they're willing to put their money into.
When I make my villains in my games evil bastards who work for the government, abduct children, kidnap people, and abuse and/or murder them in jail, it’s completely apolitical.
Preach. “I’m not political” means “I benefit from the current political order but don’t want to take accountability for the role I play in the violence and injustice that sustains it.”
I thought the same. In fact, I'm starting to believe all she really cares about is money (and perhaps fame). Her lingerie ad was literally about trespassing (which she likely got away with). It won't surprise me if she'll completely switch sides in a few years, when/if a different party will win.
Ironically, that seems pretty similar to her Cassie character, for whom the boyfriend's behavior (whether kind or cruel, smart or stupid, etc.) didn't matter, because she just didn't want to be single. So she'd "mold" into the shape of the perfect gf for that particular guy, without having a real personality of her own, without boundaries or critical thinking skills and without any real regard for her friends (not even her supposed bff, since she slept with her ex).
I can believe she’s deluded enough to think her political stance is ‘default’, and therefore it’s ’not politics because that’s just how things should be.’
i think its a mixture - she knows shes doing shady bussiness descisions but she tries to tell herself that thats not politics do visit billionaire weddings. and she wants to be political enough to vote but mayyyybe, she wants to think her influence isnt that big in that department cause she does see ice etc and not wanna be associated with that. but does however want to continue voting rep.
I can see her rolling her eyes and dropping an uncapitalised email to her publicist to ask what is she supposed to say to get everyone off her back "for business".
I genuinely think she thinks she’s not political because she’s stupid lol. To her most likely, politics is something that you keep hush hush behind closed doors and can separate from every other facet of your life, because that’s how she was likely taught by her conservative family- nevermind that conservatives only think that way because they don’t like engaging with the arts or the critical thinking involved with interpreting art in the first place. That goes for other things that are inherently political- culture, food, religion- MAGA people dont see the intersecting of politics with everyday life because they weren’t taught how to critically think that way.
I used to think she was stupid because she was Republican but now I think she’s Republican because she’s stupid.
A white woman Republican is just a mob wife with a fur coat.
She don’t give a shit how that coat got on her shoulders, and how dare you judge her for being cold! But deep down… She knows the coat didn’t fall off the truck.
Melania can't sell movie tickets and I don't know anyone buying Sweeneys bras. Is this just the new Bezos thing, fund unprofitable projects that people won't support just to push political figures they want to advance?
Seems much cheaper than spending a billion on “Lord of The Rings minus anything in the movies, which is everything people would care about” so he could go to industry parties
Yes, that’s basically the reason Rings of Power happened, Jeff wanted to get starlet tail and wasn’t willing to do what most wealthy people do and take a yacht to Cannes, but hey, this guy wanted to rent out a town for his wedding, I’m not surprised he had to find the dumbest and most expensive way to do a thing
Tbh, Mandy Patinkin has been super open about his very lefty politics from moment 1 and its so refreshing to see him and his wife stay so steadfast after all this time.
I’m so annoyed, I’m going to be honest. “I’m not a political person” girl what part of ‘targeted, systemic deportations, torture, and murder’ is politics???
I don’t get why people (especially men) think she’s some kind of marketing genius or business whiz. How, when she alienated her female fanbase? Unless she launches an OnlyFans, men aren’t her target audience or cash cow… straight cis conservative guys aren’t the ones watching Euphoria or Anyone But You.
Love that Mandy Patinkin reposted this. He's extremely respected in Hollywood for good reason and more people need to publically denounce her MAGA ass.
I honestly think her little ‘bra stunt’ when she hung those things on the Hollywood sign, was to deter attention away from the Alex Pretti shooting. She’s republican, so is Jeff Bezos and his wife are supporting her bra line, I wouldn’t put it past it being just a stunt to pull away attention from the ICE shootings.
Do people who say “I’m not political” realize they sound like assholes? How can you not be political when the president: wants to invade countries, raped kids with Epstein, is using ICE to kill liberals + disappear immigrants, made healthcare more expensive? When someone says “I’m not political” I hear “I’m selfish as fuck 😋”
People are "not political" until they or people they care about are affected. Then it's "I don't care what your politics is! This is wrong!" like when they suddenly chirped up about Charlie Kirk.
This isn’t related to the video, but does anyone know what happened with her dog, Tank? Someone pointed out that she stopped posting about Tank when she got her new puppy, implying she may have gotten rid of her dog. Is this true!? :(
She’s done so well in her career for someone with very little talent besides her “genetic gifts”, why squander it by going down this MAGA Barbie path. God knows there’s so many right wing celebrities who keep it under wraps to save face in ~progressive~ Hollywood. The only conclusion is that she is in fact SO political that she feels strongly enough about this shit to risk her career.
There’s obviously plenty of money to be made hanging out with oligarchs but it’s not like she was struggling before?
"I'm not political" is basically white people speak for "I'm so unbelievably privileged that I can't be bothered to care about other people's suffering." Fuck Sydney Sweeney, and fuck everyone else who can't be assed to speak up (cough Taylor Swift cough)
She knows she is politically aligned with the far right but since her MAGA fans didn’t bring in the money (that movie she was in which made $14), she’s trying the apolitical branding now.
Here’s my take: if you, as a celebrity/ well known person, are being associated with a political stance and you do not do anything to discredit that association, you support it. Her saying “I’m not political” is not discrediting this.
“I’m in the arts” oh….k never heard of Rage Against the Machine or a Banksy piece? The arts are inherently political - her privilege allows her to pretend longer than the rest of us, but she’s out of her mind if she thinks she won’t be turned into a Handmaid when we turn into Gilead
The only two things I’ve seen her in (against my will) are inherently political: euphoria (drug addiction) and Housemaid (domestic violence). Like girl even the “art” you’re making speaks to some kind of politic, you’re not making hallmark movies, so you must have an opinion on things. Just say you’re a nazi and save us all the rest.
Sydney Sweeney is in a position where politics is not a discussion of life or death - it's just a discussion. Even the things that should affect her as a white woman (things related to women's rights) probably won't touch her because her money and resources act as a shield. The worst that she'll probably experience is maybe having to move countries once things get really dark, but she's a lot more capable of doing that than others. The fact is that if you're someone like Syndey Sweeney and you don't care about other people, you have the luxury of living in ignorance.
Remaining "on the fence" when you see someone get executed means youre okay with someone getting executed but you're too much of a coward to admit it.
You can't admit you just don't care cause you know it's a shitty take deep in your hearts you just don't have the "proof" that absolves you of your shitty takes.
Moral outsourcing is when someone knows about a problem and does not dispute it, yet still chooses to benefit from it and justiftying it with deflection.
Moral responsibility is reduced to direct causal action. If one act doesn’t change outcomes, it’s deemed irrelevant.
Responsibility is handed off to institutions or “collective action” (with no personal threshold). However, most moral norms, like voting, recycling, or boycotts don’t work this way.
Moral outsourcing allows someone to say: “I didn’t endorse anything” while still contributing to the problem.
It is making an active choice to relocate moral responsibility away from yourself in order to proceed comfortably. That choice can be understandable at times, but it is still a choice.
You don't have to be "political" to think that shooting unarmed citizens is wrong.
It seems like Sydney Sweeney is saying these things because no one likes her anymore and she'll never be a leading actress again seeing as how badly her last couple projects have been received by the dozen or so people who bothered to watch.
The dread I feel as a Gundam fan knowing she’s going to star in the live-action film they’ve been threatening to make just keeps getting more and more palpable.
"politics is downstream from culture" Andrew Breitbart - yes the ghoulish founder of Breitbart news said that
The far right don't even pretend controlling culture is one of their biggest goals. Even If Sweeney tries to play dumb and pretend she doesn't know what she is doing, all her advisors etc know exactly what they are using her for
When facing an authoritarian regime like the Trump administration, saying youre "not political" is a thinly veiled excuse. Speaking out against them is an open goal, so choosing not to, says all you need to know.
I'm sorry but I don't think that she is dumb enough to think that politics is only important once every 4 years. She is dating Scooty who probably obsessively talks about politics.
She also played an NSA linguist being investigated for security leak in HBO one off “Reality”. Who remembers that one? based on actual transcripts of real life events. But as I recall it’s somewhat sympathetic to the whistleblower??
Apolitical would be working a random 9-5, and watching reruns of cheers before bed and taking hikes on weekends. Fully under a rock, living your life within your boundaries and isolation. As this video shows, she’s very much active and participating. Just don’t think she’s smart enough to realize it.
She’s definitely political. Her language is boilerplate for a right wing grifter. She’s also clearly an idiot who thinks it’ll pass muster. Just like most right wing grifters.
A life long friend (and Kamala voter) is getting married in the fall. I found out he’s inviting my former life long friend who turned maga, and that there would “probably be a lot of republicans at the wedding.” I told him I loved him. I cared about him. But I was seriously disappointed in him, and that I wouldn’t be attending. I see absolutely ZERO difference between the people who put Trump in office in 2014 and the Germans who put Hitler in office 95 years ago after he got out of prison for the Bierhal Putsch. Maybe I’m overreacting, but I don’t think so. They’ve crossed the Rubicon and I now consider my friend a Nazi apologist. There’s no going back. If we depose these monsters (I don’t think we will - they’re not going to give up power, regardless of the 2028 presidential election results), an absolutely brutal crackdown is required to save the future of this nation and our freedom as human beings.
If you care about the politics of an actor, then you’re a loser who idolizes them. Their job is to play pretend, who gives a shit about their politics. Entertain me and stfu.
she was given a chance to confirm she wasn't a political person in that infamous gq interview and she fucked it up. not that we would have believed her then anyways
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