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Rational Lib's avatar

I follow a lot of people on the left, my feed is full of them. I've honestly not heard anyone mention Sydney Sweeney since the jeans ad came out like a year ago. We're all focused on ICE murdering people and Trump/Epstein over here.

Tomas Pajaros's avatar

give a thought for reforming the Democratic Party. ICE and "Trump / Epstein" are not going to win 2028.

Frau Katze's avatar

But what’s the point of this article? Nobody is talking about her.

Rational Lib's avatar

Well I agree, they won't win without some sort of better means of driving the narrative like the right has with Fox News, Joe Rogan, and X. But what reforms do you think are needed?

Tomas Pajaros's avatar

top few would be

- articulate a border control policy that isn't fullstop open borders.

- urban education reform plan. a PLAN not just a porkbarrel approach.

have to take on the entrenched far left crews that doom the party nationally.

Rational Lib's avatar

Well they did try a hawkish border policy in 2024: https://truthout.org/articles/kamala-harris-has-gone-from-immigration-reformer-to-border-hawk-whats-next/

But without the aforementioned narrative control nobody heard about it except for leftists who were then disillusioned by it.

A focus on better education policy would be great too, but I'm pessimistic that anyone will pay attention to that in the current attention economy. Again, unless Democrats can figure out how to exercise some sort of control over it.

Tomas Pajaros's avatar

the insistence on uniformity is a hallmark of cults.

everyone must buy-in 100%

and everyone must loudly express the same views

the louder the better

otherwise you will be suspected of not being a true revolutionary

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it's very threating to the powers on the Left, if some of their members exhibit open mindedness or contradictory views on any category of Leftism.

Frau Katze's avatar

Nobody, exactly nobody I know on the left is talking about Sydney Sweeney.

Bruce Berger's avatar

Why do we care what famous people think about politics anyway? Do those people have any better insight than the rest of us? I have never found that to be the case. People need to grow up.

Allan Toh's avatar

As many have pointed out, NOBODY is talking about her. Please, move on.

Steve S's avatar

Left leaning bullying won't influence Sydney Sweeney, she thinks for herself and that is aggravating to the folk on the left who need constant ratification through group think and supportive wealthy famous folk. If anything, they will push her Right into the arms of MAGA.

Robert Mark hoyle's avatar

The left is unhinged

It was a funny commercial about a beautiful woman wearing jeans but the left has to turn it into yet another fabricated crisis. I hate the left.

Jennifer Anderson's avatar

In the time of actual Nazi adherents working in the federal government you cannot simply dismiss an ad like the one they did. The author of this article so easily dismissed the wink and nod as ridiculous which made me do the same to them. There is a wide movement of authoritarianism in this country and you hate the party still fighting for our rights because they pointed out that nazis do nazi shit.

elliott oberman's avatar

I can and see why we need We Need a Sydney Sweeney Ceasefire