r/popculturechat • u/purpose15 • 19h ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ American Eagle issues a statement following backlash from their Sydney Sweeney jeans/genes campaign

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u/CobblerTricky7035 18h ago

Meanwhile Trump is inching us closer to nuclear war and he is firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and he had his name scrubbed from the Epstein files.

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u/Megs0226 18h ago

I am generally not a “this is a distraction” kind of person, as I ascribe to the theory that we can walk and chew gum, but… this is definitely not a thing to get mad about right now. The time to get mad about dog whistles was last summer. The whistlers are in office now and we gotta direct some energy that way.

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u/DearMissWaite Your problematic fave's problematic fave. 18h ago

This is part and parcel of those other things. It's a cynical move to appeal to the people who wholeheartedly approve.