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Sydney Sweeney’s voter registration emerges amid uproar over controversial American Eagle jeans ad (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Actor has been registered in Florida with one of the two main parties since June 2024, according to public voting records

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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago (8 children)

No one that I know fucking gives a shit about this ad or who she’s registered with. Especially not any left leaning people. All the “outrage” is another manufactured culture war.

Reminder that Trump is in the Epstein files and admitted Epstein “stole” an underage employee from Mar a Lago.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Especially not any left leaning people. All the “outrage” is another manufactured culture war.

Who even sees commercials anymore?

We're past the point where the right responds to actual outrage. They literally manufactured this to be outrage, maybe even to distract from the fact that trump raped kids with Epstein.

The owners are the Schottensteins, and they've been pro-trump from the beginning:

During the 2016 presidential election, Corey and Brian Schottenstein served as presidential electors for the state of Ohio at the request of the Trump campaign. Corey is a Managing Partner at Schottenstein Real Estate Group, which sold a $49 million Palm Beach home down the street from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.

Members of the Mar-a-Lago Club themselves, the Schottenstein family has vacationed in Palm Beach for years and knows Trump personally. Brian, the President of SRE, got married to former Ohio Senate President Stan Aronoff’s granddaughter, Toria Aronoff, at Mar-a-Lago in December.

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-ohio-art-world-financiers-backing-j-d-vance-and-other-trump-republicans/

The ad is full of racist dog whistles, and every one of them is intentional.

But no one sees ads anymore, so there was no outrage.

So the right just pretended there was outrage, likely to distract from the fact that Epsteinand trump raped kids together.

Quick edit:

Given the connections, wealth, and all the problematic shit AE had with their teen employees...

It would be implausible that a couple of the Schottensteins are on the same list.

Manufacturing distractions could very well be the price to get their names redacted too

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

The US TV ad market will be worth around $57 billion this year and generate around $800bn in trade, so vast numbers of people watch advertising. It isn’t for funsies.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io -1 points 1 month ago

Keep trying to justify your job, marketingboy. AI coming for you just like the rest of us.

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