The “thank you for your attention to this matter” era is pretty funny
I swear to god, literally no one on planet earth is able to be normal about Sydney Sweeney.
back in the day greeks would kill each other over conventionally attractive women. it a post-woke world, the best we can do is post through it.
The most annoying part of all this is other companies will see the hubbub around jeans and decide that making obnoxious dog whistle ads is the way to go because no advertising executive has a functioning brain and they all infinitely copy each other, wringing every bit of value out of a concept. Oh, Wendy’s Twitter is being rude to people and it gets engagement? Better make sure Milwaukee Tools also claps back at the haters now
So glad I didn’t get seriously into Twitter. Sounds exhausting
Dunkin Donuts already did
pedophiles don’t get to have opinions on how adult women look
yeah! they should keep their opinions to beauty pageants!
wait
Im now a Republican since im hot. Sorry hexbear it was nice while it lasted
Yeah, I’m a hot republican too
Usan politics is a form of brain damage.
It’s impossible to read this and not feel your mind shrink. I know what the words mean but there’s no sense to be found.
I ain’t reading that and neither should anyone else
not to be rude, but i think almost literally everyone commenting in this thread is misinterpreting this use of the word “hot.” for a while now, trump has been back on using that in its older slang sense, as in “so hot right now.” he talks about the way women look a lot, but this isn’t one of those times.
I’m actually not convinced it even matters what he really meant — like he’s probably still just as wrong both ways
i find it generally useful to at least understand what someone’s trying to say when figuring out their intentions. and it’s so odd that he’s trying to make saying things are “hot” a thing again. like he’s saying amerikkka is the hottest country.
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”Folks, we have the hottest Country, the fires are burning very Hot!
I wonder if Trump’s getting a little sleepy himself now that he’s almost 80
trump is brandonizing at an alarming clip
The weather is so hot right now
I don’t think those meanings of hot are disentwined as you suggest. Hot (popular) and Hot (sexy) are semantically related and in the context of talking about women a misogynist is definitely referring to how they look, if also to how popular/profitable they are.
But we have the context of him talking about other things, such as America itself, being hot, so I think he really does mean it in the popular sense.
Hot sexy and Hot popular are not opposite, in fact they are kissing, sloppy style, squishing boobs together, etc.“Attractive” is a synonym to both, before we even get into how played out sexuality is in marketing terminology. But I want to emphasize that an old pig like Trump only covets beauty in women, it’s impossible to suggest he’d actually not mean it that way with his well established record of misogynistic language and acts
I’m not saying Trump’s not a terrible misogynist. He has a record of countless things I’d need to put a CW for. That’s not what I’m saying.
What I am saying is that we have very explicit context for a contrary interpretation in this case, because him being a terrible misogynist does not logically validate that every single thing he says must have been intended according to the most misogynistic interpretation, in the presence of competing evidence.
ps you said “etc” instead of “and so on”
It isn’t contrary! I explained it with a meme reference but ‘hot off the shelves’ and sexy hot are closely related in meaning and overlap significantly. Sexy commercials for products unrelated to sex don’t make sense in a context where popularity and marketability is alienated from sexual desires. And Trump is marinated in marketing culture, he lives to make himself and his supporters “hot” in both meanings
It was a very accurate representation of Zizek, because it was more oriented toward sounding clever than advancing understanding. Your argument is just not philologically sound, because his intended meaning (whatever cute literary criticism you can offer about freudian slips) still was not about sexual attractiveness but brand value. He wasn’t saying people want to fuck Tulsi Gabbard, he wasn’t saying people want to fuck America, and he’s using the same parlance here.
you’re so tied up on statements having exclusive meaning, it is not a ‘slip’, he intentionally links popularity to sexual desire. And yes, he absolutely means people want to fuck Gabbard, himself and his supporters as proxies for ‘America’.
you aren’t going to appreciate how sexually charged fascist anxieties are if you analyze their language in such a stiff definitional way. He could have chosen different language to arrive at your sterile meanings.
His “thank you for your attention to this matter” sign off drives me crazy. Its the last line every every bullshit threat from a landlord. It makes me sick anytime i see it
He’s a shit ass slumlord, he’s probably had that printed onto millions of eviction letters.
Please just die
Read this but imagine he’s saying it like an announcer from the 40s using a trans Atlantic voice.
They transed the Atlantic! When will woke stop???
Tit they really referze all their foized ant unfoized gonzonands?
Did they really reverse all their voiced and unvoiced consonants?
“Go get 'em Sydney” Definitely has a update from the front lines of WWII ring to it, doesn’t it?
Yeah that’s what did it for me
Sorta reminds me of this Simpsons bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuHQxIC7rY
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The pants are “flying of the shelves”, is this some kind of interpretive dance number?
“being Republican is what you want to be” sounds too reddit-like for this to have been written by Trump.
(Sideshow Bob voice) You secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!
“being Republican is what you want to be”
Modern fascism is getting really blatant about the esoteric egoism. Pretty soon MAGA people will be embracing full solipsism and walking off cliffs believing that they can fly because they are the fulcrum around which the universe turns.
And I’ll be watching while snapping pictures for my kids and grandkids saying “neat!”.
Does he think the beer company is called Bud Lite?
No, and the people who he’s writing to don’t know what an Anheuser-Busch is. What it means is “remember that thing you were angry at? think about how angry you were again”.
ive seen people proudly boycott bud lite by switching to busch lite
That’s probably why the “boycott” in spring 2023 only made a brief flicker on the stock price of AB InBev.
Well the core of what he is saying is that “hotness” is socially constructed. It is contingent on one’s context, how they act within its constraints, and the tides of history, rather than being some essential innate attribute.
In other words: Sydney Sweeney’s genes are adequate for survival, apparently, and we can’t say much more.
