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Addressing the backlash: American Eagle is clarifying that their Sydney Sweeney ad was only intended to make people masturbate (clickhole.com)

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American Eagle is in full-on crisis mode after their “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign was met by swift public backlash as critics accused the ad of invoking eugenics. Today, the clothing company finally put out a statement explaining the campaign’s original aim: American Eagle is clarifying that their Sydney Sweeney ad was only intended to make people masturbate. [...]

Context: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/why-sydney-sweeney-s-good-jeans-campaign-is-being-compared-to-nazism-20250729-p5mikz.html

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well, it's only four coincidences on this one incident during the second rise of fascism.

Hey, what's the symbol of empire btw?

Some kind of raptor iirc. A hawk? No that's not right.

https://roman.mythologyworldwide.com/the-symbolism-of-the-roman-eagle-in-mythology/amp/

Huh, that's five weird little coinkydinks! Six if you know the founders of America specifically patterned themselves on Roman institutions, thus choosing an American Eagle as a national symbol!

(Honestly it almost certainly actually is but at this point the pile is funny to point out by itself)

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lol! What are you even talking about? What "coincidence" are you even trying to highlight? That the US has always tried to associate itself with the Roman Empire? Ummm, yeah. That's not a coincidence. They did that quite intentionally. And almost two hundred years before the Nazis came around.

This is like talking to a numerologist. You can just keep moving numbers around and making up new meanings for every pattern. It will always show you whatever you want to see.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

We're numerologists and you're a gaslighter.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

Oh no, stupid people have found Lemmy

This is Blaze's fault