I wasn’t mad at Sydney Sweeney before — she was just a dumbass ignorant of genetics and making a commercial for money — but now she has lost all benefit of the doubt. She is a registered Republican.
Richard Hanania, who wrote for white supremacist news outlets under a pseudonym before becoming an above-board conservative columnist, took credit for Sweeney’s affiliation.
“It’s been revealed that Sydney Sweeney has been a registered Republican since June 2024, just a few months after I set off the discourse about her being the end of woke,” he wrote on X. “It looks like I memed into reality the biggest Republican celebrity recruit in years.”
I can’t say she was much of a draw for me before, but now I’ll be even more unenthused about her work. I’ll just visualize Jon Voight in her roles.
So much for that claim that Sydney Sweeney has good genes.
She lacks some crucial traits including empathy, common sense, and basic intelligence.
She is a Dark Sider.
Empty.
A pretty shell over a void.
She is unlikely to drag down the collective IQ of CPAC even further. I mean, we know she is able to dress herself.
Incidentally, if you have followed the recent work about paleo-DNA you will know her blue eyes comes from brown-skinned early Europeans.
Sydney Sweeney ad clarification:
https://clickhole.com/addressing-the-backlash-american-eagle-is-clarifying-that-their-sydney-sweeney-ad-was-only-intended-to-make-people-masturbate/
@1 raven
Genes do contribute to intelligence, and I haven’t seen any evidence that Sweeney is particularly intelligent. She is successful due to her looks, and she gets paid to dress up and pretend to be other people. When you are rich and good-looking, quite a few people will say nice things to be around you, and you can get people to say things like this:
I haven’t seen those shows, or any other of her performances, so I won’t comment on the quality or difficulty of her performances.
I recall about a decade ago when another actress, Scarlett Johansson, played in a movie based on the ‘we only use 10% of our brains‘ myth, and managed to convince herself she was a supergenius.
Scarlett Johansson Film Lucy Pushes 10 Percent Brain Myth
You know, there’s that stupid stupid aphorism:
If a man isn’t a (communist/socialist/liberal/slightly progressive/democrat) when he’s twenty, he has no heart. If man is still (that thing) when he is 40, he has no head.
I used to think the kicker was “no head” part but now I’m thinking the “no heart” part is more telling. What is with these heartless young conservatives. I really don’t get them and it’s just so … wrong.
In other words… she’s adequate in her profession. Yawn.
“Lucy” was mildly amusing, mostly because of Morgan Freeman stealing scenes as the befuddled professor meeting a virtual goddess. And said goddess tearing the fabric of reality apart and reassembling it, just to put all the secrets of Life, the Universe, and Everything onto an unusually large custom-built thumb-drive — that was both cool and silly.
PS: I’m guessing that would have been a 42-petabyte thumb drive?
Frank Zappa had this covered in 1973,
We are looking at you Sydney Sweeney.
What we are seeing isn’t the least bit attractive.
From the article cited @4:
As early as the 1890s, William James asserted – reasonably enough and without specifying any amount – that we only utilize a fraction of our intellectual potential.
I don’t think this was meant to be a scientific claim, just a sort of pep-talk urging us all to pursue our full potential and not be limited by social or other constraints. (Given the time, I’m not sure whether William James meant “we” to include Black people.)
The only way the “10%” claim has any meaning is if only 10% of our brain tissue is devoted to all the stuff we call “higher cognition” or “conscious mind” stuff: reading, speaking, learning, remembering, reasoning, enjoying music, deciding what to wear and how to drive to work, etc. etc. The rest of our brains, of course, would be busy 24/7 with other vital functions like managing bodily functions (heart, breathing, digestion, etc.), receiving and organizing sensory input from eyes, ears and the rest of our bodies, and coordinating all of our muscle movements to do what our conscious minds decide to do. And NONE of those parts of our brains can be repurposed to enhance our higher cognition or listen in on all cell-phone calls on Earth simultaneously or whatever — unless we somehow become light-beings and lose all our bodily constraints FIRST.
What this episode reminds me of is that above all else, the conservative is desperate to be considered intelligent. They constantly love to tell anyone who will listen how intelligent they are. It is their main propaganda point, for both recruitment and maintenance. Just listen to Fox News and you’ll probably hear it a dozen times an hour. The stupider their thought, the more likely they are to describe it as brilliant. Their belief that they are more intelligent feeds their belief in IQ mythology, various hierarchies which place them at the top, and their desire for dominance and control. I am amazed at the level of stupidity they manifest in public, shamelessly. Most are just Dunning-Kruger afflicted misfits who’ve learned a few cheap tricks and mass media techniques.
She has all the qualifications necessary to be a member of Trump’s team. Give her time, and she’ll become a MAGA Manson-Mean girl like Bondi, Noem, MTG, Gabbard, Leavitt, ad nauseam.
Desi Lydic did a piece on Syd recently. Actually it was more a piece on Meghan Kelly. It interleaved cuts of Meghan slut shaming Syd for “showing her vagina” on the one hand and on the other hand Meghan saying how wonderful Syd is and how sick she (Meghan) is of people criticizing beautiful blond, blue eyed people. Meghan’s angle changes at the whim of the Fox News honchos.
Ed Peters, 10:
As you point out, conservatives, especially as seen on Fox on many podcasts, are indeed stupid. They’re intelligent enough, the problem is that they’re stupid. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Check out what Dietrich Bonhoeffer has to say in his Theory of Stupidity. (Btw, he was hanged by the Nazis just a month before WW2 in Europe ended. How stupid and evil is that?)
https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%20Stupidity.pdf
@woozy #5
Who knew you needed “high emotional intelligence and sophisticated character comprehension” to show your boobs?
No thanks, there are many more rewarding vices to waste my brain cells on.
He gives it away with the claim that this starlet de jour is “The end of woke.” . I haven’t seen any of her work, but I’m sure the maga toadies want public discourse focused on anything but Epstein.
I see a Fox News lackey is claiming that the starlet is being criticized for being blue eyed and blonde. Her hair isn’t even blonde, but no matter, since the criticism is for accepting a paycheck for appearing in advertising that smacks of eugenics and Nazis. The magats desperately want a Taylor Swift type of girl who doesn’t despise them.
I don’t care one way or the other.
We have so many major problems facing us these days that a celebrity’s party affiliation isn’t even on the list of things to worry about.
Oh.
I didn’t know that.
OTOH, I didn’t really care either.
I barely know who she is and have never and will never see any of her movies.
So much for that, her natural hair color is dark brown.
What else is an artifact, meaning human made?
I’m afraid to even Google it.
She could have had multiple cosmetic surgery procedures.
You can even order blue eyes these days. (Not recommended.)
Seriously, don’t try this at home.
Your blue eyes will be literally useless if you end up going blind.
beholder @17:
No kidding. Thanks for your (small, but noticeable) contribution to them! Could you fuck off now?
This is all pretty typical of Nazis.
They rarely live up to their own claimed superior traits.
The most obvious one is that they are usually of low intelligence.
Joseph Goebbels was short at 5 feet 5 inches and killed all 6 of his children at the end of the war.
Hitler was of average height with brown hair.
Goering was way overweight.
Sydney Sweeney is just following in the long tradition of white supremacists who aren’t superior in any way.
Trump Deletes and Reposts Tweet About Sydney Sweeney Several Times
As presidential as ever.
@19 Rob
Aww, I feel seen! 😊
Do you have any evidence in support of that claim?
No.
Sweet Jesus BOYS give it a fcking rest. And yeah, from the level of vitriol the posts it a safe bet that commentators are clearly men.
Sweeny is pro-choice, an LGBTQ+ ally and has defended trans rights in public. She is the kind of Republican that Party needs a whole lot more of. And who knows why she is a registered R. It all comes down to checking off a box.
Look, the ad is awful and she should fire her publicist but to paint her as a Trumpanzee is lazy & stupid
@laurian
I count one inappropriate comment from larpar @14, and a nasty quote and some blatant lies from Meghan Kelly at Fox News @12.
No, we aren’t blaming her publicist. Nobody forced her to make such a disgusting commercial or register as a fascist magat. (The GOP died when it turned on Liz Cheney and threw its support behind these foul magats and their leader)
It is entirely just for her to receive flak for her actions. Profiting from thinly veiled hate speech, regardless of any PR stunts, tells you quite a bit about someone’s character.
Her half-closed eyes do look sultry, but they also look vapid.
Idaho panhandle. She’s at best conflicted.
@17. Trump enabler & bad faith troll beholder :
You don’t care about rising racism, the return to popularity of fucking eugenics and nazi ideology being dog-whistled or dog -foghorned even here? No, of course, you don’t you did after all in effect vote for Trump and argue against the ONLY alternative to Trump. Clearly issues like racism & Fascism are no concern or priority of yours.
Yes – thanks at least in part to you and your assistance to putting Trump back in the White House this time as outright unchecked de facto dictator.
For fucks sake you disingenuous, wilful ignorami; its not just her affiliation we are talking about here it is her support and call for fucking eugenics and Trumpist fascism. But of course you, beholder, are quite happy with those having enabled them so well last year aren’t you?
@pilgham : “Idaho panhandle. She’s at best conflicted.”
Huh? Why? Don’t understand that – please can you elaborate?
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FWIW. I hadn’t herad of Sydney before this ad. On checking wiki I did find that :
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Sweeney#Early_life
So that might perhaps indicate she’s more intelligent than many here assume perhaps? It also notes she comes from a religious family quite possibly educating and raising her to be a Repug – not that its really any excuse with #24 Tethys niling it in their last line there.
She sounds like a successful actress. Ok.
She’s probably rich. Ok.
She’s a Republican. Ok.
These things follow on from one another. It isn’t surprising when someone with money is a Republican because that’s the party that makes the biggest show of protecting their interests. Is it at the expense of the rest of us? Yes, of course it is. Are they parasites? Yes, of course they are. But I think that’s probably a whole lot easier to overlook if you’re rich. And most of your friends are rich. And all your neighbors are rich. Most of my coworkers I’ve met while working in IT believe conservative fairy tales about poor people and they’re nowhere near as well off as a successful actress.
I don’t know Sydney Sweeney’s story and I don’t find her interesting enough to look it up. Nor am I suggesting that she has no way to know that Republicans are harming a whole lot of other people to protect the interests of people like her. But I don’t find it odd that people who are probably rich are Republicans.
What I do find very strange is when a bunch of rural gomers think they’ve finally found the one billionaire, who’s been a millionaire since he was a toddler, who finally really gets them and their struggles. A billionaire who finally really cares about them even while he’s spewing hatred and vitriol about a whole lot of other people. A billionaire who’s definitely going to protect their interests over his own and all the people he knows because he’s definitely been rich for over three quarters of a century by doing just that. A billionaire who definitely respects them while he’s pushing economic ideas that suggest he doesn’t understand basic addition and subtraction… or maybe hopes they don’t.
@21. Reginald Selkirk : “Trump Deletes and Reposts Tweet About Sydney Sweeney Several Times. As presidential as ever.”
The demented Pedo-POTUS sur esedns alot of time thinking about young women conventionally considered sexually attractive doesn’t he? Seems desperate to be wanted by them and just so sleazilly creepy.
A lot of his MAGAt worshippers also seem very obsessed indeed with young women and not in arespectful or nice or good way either. As #16 Tethys has also earlier noted.
@ ^ Trump ..sure spends a lot of time ..
The ad is shitty but the end result of all this attention is that American Eagle’s stock is soaring, so they got rewarded for it and you can bet your ass that more companies will try to follow this trend. hbomberguy’s “Woke Brands” video from 7 years ago is a must watch if you have not seen it. It’s all calculated fucking advertisement. The only victory condition is inattention.
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‘She sounds like a successful actress. Ok.’
Not so sure about that. An actor, really.
If the designated driver is female, does one have a driveress?
(Are women bodyguards bodyguardesses? ;)
‘The ad is shitty but the end result of all this attention is that American Eagle’s stock is soaring […]’
Heh. It’s that bad, eh? :)
@18 Raven
It might be simpler to get touched by the Night King to get blue eyes.
Ok so she is Idaho adjacent, which is a red flag, and allegedly registered as Repug in Florida of all places. That last part is quite common here. This stupid idea of a commercial did some genocentric shit and referenced good genes in context of her blue eyes and blonde hair. I think the ad deserves criticism and Sweeney too for being OK with it. Why not just stick with the tire smoking Shelby and call it a day?
But I cringe at takes calling it a Nazi dog whistle. Yeah there’s some very vague awkward allusion to positive eugenics if you want to code it that way, but ignore the actual history of eugenics that took place in the US well before AND after the Third Reich and non-Nazi US eugenics was into sterilization (negative eugenics) as were the Nazis. The Nazis also referenced bacillus, other pathogenic metaphors or parasites taking it to another level, which I did not glean from the ad. Even IF the ad could be taken as white supremacist, the Nazis had no monopoly on that either. Was the ad encouraging blonde haired blue eyed people to breed like crazy or hinting at replacement theory? All I saw was something about eye color and good genes, which is cringy enough without dragging the Third Reich or neo-nazi offshoots into it.
It is good to have a lightning rod for anti-MAGA anger I guess. Her best role yet?
And is Sweeney even aware of who Richard Hanania is?
And to put this into perspective there were those Calvin Klein ads. Not the very creepy ones with Brooke Shields babbling on about evolution. The ones with Mark Wahlberg, who had done some actual violent racist stuff. He’s a beloved actor now seemingly repentant of his hideous past acts. I still watch some of his movies. Sweeney hasn’t done actual hate crimes that I know of. I’ll probably be long dead by the time Sweeney has such retrospective regret for not an actual hate crime.
Hemidactylus, I myself was not even aware of who Richard Hanania is. Now I am.
Also, cf. https://www.vox.com/culture/371632/raunch-republicans-sydney-sweeney-hawk-tuah-girl
(Archetype invocation!)
hemidactylus
Your criticism of the Nazi comparison leaves out the fact that the blue eyed blond Aryan branch of eugenics is the entire reason people are rightfully calling out AE and their spokesblonde.
We understand it’s a publicity stunt, but since the orange fuhrer is in fact disappearing non-blonde blue eyed people into concentration camps and building alligator Alcatraz, the comparison is spot on.
Whinging that the US and other countries also had a eugenics problem is irrelevant.
Nobody else started a World War and attempted to Genocide the Jewish people based on their faulty belief in the superiority of genes for blue eyes.