Sydney Sweeney Can’t Catch A Break

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Brett Cooper Show

Episode Title: Sydney Sweeney Can’t Catch A Break
Date: May 13, 2026
Host: Brett Cooper

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Brett Cooper reacts to the latest viral outrage surrounding HBO’s Euphoria—particularly focusing on Sydney Sweeney’s character “Cassie” and the show’s depiction of OnlyFans, sex work, and conservative-coded themes. Brett satirically dissects how both the left and right are reading far too much into the show’s fiction, projecting political beliefs onto the characters and debating the show’s moral stance. The episode blends cultural commentary, generational perspective, and gleeful skewering of internet discourse, all while questioning why people are desperate for fictional media to affirm their worldviews.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Viral Euphoria Clip & Online Meltdown

• Brett sets the stage discussing a viral clip from Euphoria's Sunday episode, acknowledging that she doesn't watch the show but feels compelled to address the internet’s intense reaction.
• She describes Euphoria as a show that “becomes the talk of the Internet, the talk of the town square every single time they release an episode” (03:00).
• Brett’s take is less about the show itself and more about the cultural response:

  “This is not a critique on the show, on the actors or anything... This is a reaction to the people who are losing their minds on the Internet about this most recent episode.” (04:10)

2. Show Structure Update & Debate over Sex Work Representation

• The current season sees a five-year time jump; characters are now in their mid-20s and all are involved in various kinds of sex work.

  • Examples: One character manages OnlyFans girls, another manages a strip club, a trans character is a sugar baby, Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) is living a “1950s housewife fantasy” but eventually joins OnlyFans herself.

• Real OnlyFans creators are upset by the depiction, especially the portrayal of extreme fetishes (puppy play, mummification, age play).

• Brett reads from a Hollywood trade article where an OnlyFans model criticizes the show for “ridiculous and cartoonish” depiction and notes certain acts “aren’t even allowed on OnlyFans”, focusing not on ethics but platform rules (08:00):

  “There is just a lot that is ridiculous and cartoonish about it. There is so much that they have her doing that is not even allowed on OnlyFans. And that alone is infuriating.”
  (quoting an OnlyFans creator at 08:25)

• Brett comments on the lack of moral argument from OnlyFans models:

  “What I do find interesting is that she’s not saying that it’s gross, that it’s reprehensible. She’s simply saying it’s not allowed... Like, that’s not very convincing.” (08:40)

3. Real-World Parallels & Cultural Reality

• Brett highlights the irony that Euphoria’s sex work plotlines parallel real-world events, referencing a recent story where an OnlyFans model was convicted after a client died during a fetish session that mirrored a storyline from Euphoria (10:50).

  “So, okay, so in the show... one of the characters, again, they are all sex workers. They get mummified in this weird sex fetish sense. And then just one week ago, an OnlyFans model literally pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter after she did that exact thing for a client with Saran Wrap and he died.”

• She reads a Manhattan Institute critique that summarizes the show’s “unflinching honesty” in depicting a life of unrestrained hedonism and its attendant consequences:

  “It does not directly or moralistically preach restraint, but it shows with unflinching honesty what life without restraint actually does to the people living it.” (11:50)
  (quoting a Manhattan Institute article)

4. Internet Outrage: Right and Left Both Go Too Far

• Brett mocks both left and right for reading too deeply and personally into the show, especially around Sydney Sweeney’s character voicing right-wing, “trad wife” talking points in a podcast scene, leading to viral claims she is “conservative” or “anti-Democrat”.
  • Notable Quote:

    “People, it is a Hollywood show. It is a fictional TV show. This is not Sydney Sweeney we are dealing with here. She is acting… She is literally playing a character. She is reading lines that somebody else wrote for her.” (15:50)

• Both sides are “projecting” and trying to claim the character or the show as validation for their political discourse.
  • Dinesh D’Souza tweets his defense of Sweeney; left-wing Twitter attacks her. (16:40)
• Brett illustrates that the show is actually satirizing the monetization of outrage and the manipulation of echo chambers:

  “Her OnlyFans manager… is telling her to lean more and more into these trad right-wing talking points to get more views and subscribers to get these traditional men to applaud her. And in doing this, they are literally mocking and commenting on the people online who are easily swayed and exploited by random talking points and bad actors.” (17:25)

5. Media Manipulation, Outrage Culture & Satire

• The controversy itself is the satire: the more outrage Sweeney’s character provokes, the more money she earns.
• Entertainment Tonight summarizes the episode’s satire on both “trad wife” culture and progressive meltdown.
  • The show delivers lines such as:

    “Men should be free. They should be able to speak their mind, voice their desires.”
    —while her husband “sits at home waiting for his wife’s newfound income to save him”. (18:59)

  • Maddy (her manager) quips:

    “The angrier these idiots get, the more money you make… the more controversy you stir up, the crazier things you say… the more money they pay you.” (19:35)

6. Hypocrisy & Shifting Standards

• Brett skewers pearl-clutching over the use of the word “retarded” in the show—given the extreme content the audience already tolerates.

  • Memorable Reddit Quote:

    “Middle aged man having anal sex with a teenage transsexual is one thing, but I draw the line at naughty words.” (20:05)

• Brett mocks Reddit threads over “Republican-coded” themes, listing (with sarcasm) the supposed right-wing dog whistles: anti-California comments, anti-woke coded jokes, pro-capitalism lines, mentions of the happiness of Christian homeschoolers, etc. (21:20)

7. Final Perspective: Let Fiction Be Fiction

• Brett’s closing sentiment urges listeners to stop seeking political affirmation from fictional media and to recognize Euphoria as cultural satire that “holds up a mirror” to everyone’s obsessions.

  “Caring that much about the values behind it is just embarrassing, honestly.” (22:00)

  • The only thing Brett finds truly disturbing: Sydney Sweeney’s alleged relationship with Scooter Braun—jokingly noting, “this might actually be my line in the sand.” (22:15)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

03:00 — On why Euphoria sparks discourse:

“Every time they release an episode, it becomes the talk of the Internet, the talk of the town square…”

08:40 — On OnlyFans outrage:

“She’s not saying that it’s gross, that it’s reprehensible. She’s simply saying it’s not allowed... That’s not very convincing.”

10:50 — On show mirroring real events:

“An OnlyFans model literally pled guilty... after she did that exact thing for a client with Saran Wrap and he died.”

11:50 — Quoting Manhattan Institute:

“It shows with unflinching honesty what life without restraint actually does to the people living it.”

15:50 — On the character/actress confusion:

“People, it is a Hollywood show. It is a fictional TV show. This is not Sydney Sweeney we are dealing with here. She is acting.”

17:25 — On satire within the show:

“They are literally mocking and commenting on the people online who are easily swayed and exploited by random talking points and bad actors.”

19:35 — On rage-bait and profit:

“The angrier these idiots get, the more money you make, the more controversy you stir up, the crazier things you say... the more money they pay you.”

20:05 — Reddit’s line in the sand:

“Middle aged man having anal sex with a teenage transsexual is one thing, but I draw the line at naughty words.”

22:00 — On seeking affirmation from fiction:

“Caring that much about the values behind it is just embarrassing, honestly.”

22:15 — On Sweeney’s alleged dating life:

“Sydney, you triggering OnlyFans girls, the right and the left… But this might actually be my line in the sand. Scooter Braun. Just kidding. Date whoever you want. But maybe not.”

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Important Discussion Timestamps

• [03:00] – Brett frames her approach: not a Euphoria review, but analysis of society’s reaction
• [05:00] – Recap of Euphoria’s time jump and new season structure
• [07:30] – Detailed rundown of OnlyFans outrage and the depiction of sex work
• [10:50] – Connections between show storylines and real-world events
• [13:30] – Scene breakdown: Sydney Sweeney’s character says “I’m not retarded” (sparking online debate)
• [15:50] – Dissection of the left/right overreaction to Sweeney’s in-character statements
• [17:25] – Analysis of the show’s deliberate satire of outrage culture
• [19:35] – Entertainment Tonight summary on Cassie’s arc and meta-commentary
• [20:05] – The hypocrisy of fans rejecting “naughty words” over extreme content
• [21:20] – Breakdown of “Republican-coded” accusations on Reddit
• [22:00] – Brett’s concluding perspective on the futility of demanding affirmation from fiction

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Tone & Language

• Brett’s tone is acerbic and irreverent, blending sarcasm, cultural critique, and generational skepticism.
• She uses direct language, occasionally quoting offensive or controversial terms in the context of discussing the show’s content and the outrage it has caused.
• The approach is humorous, critical, and unfiltered, reflecting her playful but pointed style.

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Summary Takeaway

Brett Cooper dissects how Euphoria*—and, by extension, all cultural touchstones—becomes a mirror for contemporary internet culture and political projection. She humorously urges listeners to step back, recognize satire and fiction for what they are, and stop seeking or insisting on affirmation and validation from entertainment. The real controversy, she jokes, is not what happens onscreen but how fervently everyone online needs TV characters to align with their real-life politics.

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I'm not. Oh, no? Well, in case you're like me and you do not watch the show, that clip that has been going viral for the last 48 hours over on X is from this Sunday's episode of HBO's Euphoria. And you might be thinking, okay, Brett, you have said before that you do not watch the show. You just said it again. Why are we talking about this vulgar, depraved piece of television? I mean, the left is mad because now they think that euphoria is conservative coded. Conservatives are now saying, we love Euphoria. We love Sydney Sweeney. We're gonna. Who lives with this clip. The hoes on Onlyfans have also jumped in. They're pissed off with how they're being portrayed on the show. And Sam Levinson. Sam Levinson, who is the freak of a director, is sitting back in his Hollywood mega mansion laughing at everybody online because everybody is falling for his very obvious rage bait. But not me. I'm not falling for it. Because the only thing I am actually outraged over is the real life Sydney Sweeney's choice in men. Obviously, we're gonna talk about that too. But before we dive into this entire story and all the discourse, if you guys are in Tennessee, in the greater Nashville area, I'm doing another show with Zany's. May 19th come out. It's so super fun. I tell stories. We do like a live version of the show. We make fun of the craziest things on the Internet. It's a great time. Again next week, May 19, at Zany's, if you're in Nashville. All right, so euphoria, just in general, it becomes the talk of the Internet, the talk of the town square. Every Single time they release an episode. Like I said, this is not a TV show that I watch. Now, to be frank, I really don't watch a lot of television. But I remember watching the first ever episode of euphoria in 2019. The first season, all of my friends in LA were talking about it. Everybody wanted to be on this cool new HBO show. I was like, great. You know, teenagers in high school. It's all cool and colorful. Let's watch it. I remember being absolutely flabbergasted. I was like, okay, no crossing the line. This is really grotesque. It's very vulgar. And quite frankly, it was just not for me. So this is not a critique on the show, on the actors or anything. Again, because I don't watch it. So I have no place in saying any of that more. So this is a reaction to the people who are losing their minds on the Internet about this most recent episode. So all of this has to do, obviously, with Sydney Sweeney, the most controversial woman in Hollywood, it seems. So it has to do with her character on the show because it's her. So again, like I said, everybody is already gonna be nitpicking. These are the people in our society who still think that she is a Nazi because she did a jeans commercial and talked about her good genes. So already they are predisposed to be upset with her. But anyway, I had my producer fill me in because she watches the show. Shame, shame, shame. And you guys might remember this. We actually talked about it back in 2024, I think it was on comment section. But they did this time jump after they had taken a really long hiatus between the last two seasons to make the show less risky and less edgy. So Pop Base posted at the time, season three of Euphoria will have a time jump that moves the storyline away from high school and into early adulthood, which we are seeing now. The characters will be older to make the show's edgy theme of sex and drugs less risky. So everybody was, like, losing their mind, being like, this is so inappropriate. This is crazy. So they said, all right, we'll just do a time jump. My thought is you should have considered that before you made a bunch of high school characters drug and sex addicted. Just saying. So anyway, like I was saying, just to get everybody on the same page, the show has now jumped five years in the future. That is what the current season is revolving around. And essentially now all these characters are in their mid-20s. Every single character ends up in some form of sex work. So, for example, one character. This is off my producer by the way, one character is an agent repping OnlyFans girls. Another is working for a man that owns a strip club and is managing the girls. The trans girl in the show is now a sugar baby. And Sydney Sweeney's character, Cassie, is engaged and living in the suburbs in some kind of like 1960s housewife fantasy world. But she did always want to to be an OnlyFans model. Like that's a through line with her character. So her fiance, whose name is Nate, in the show, he forbids it. Cause again, they're like living this housewife fantasy. But when she learns that this character, her fiance, is in a mountain of debt, that he's not actually as successful as he led her to believe, she decides to take matters into her own hands to help her family. She's the virtuous wife, I guess. And she decides to do onlyfans anyway because obviously that's what she's always wanted to do. The fiance, once he realizes how much money she's making, how successful she's become, he gets on board. And so from there, their picture perfect 1960s housewife, suburban Trad family falls apart. So now TL Dr. Or too raunchy, didn't watch is what I would say. You are all caught up. We are on the same page here. So Sidney's character is being an onlyfans model in this current season. That's what they were talking about in Sunday's episode. And in the show they have her doing just really insane stuff. I mean, she's doing all of this weird fetish play, puppy play, age play. There are other characters that are doing similar things. Like another character is doing something called mummification and all of this. Guys, listen. It is really, really pissing off the real OnlyFans models. Because apparently all of that euphoria is covering is just a step too far. It is too fetishy, it is too cartoonish. This was a real article in one of the Hollywood trades. The headline reads, Sydney Sweeney's euphoria Sex Worker is really pissing off OnlyFans models. And then listen to this. The show's depiction of OnlyFans models via Cassie, I.e. sydney's character, has, however, rankled real life OnlyFans creators who already find themselves subject to enough mockery and scorn due to their life of work. Now, unfortunately, I really don't have a lot of sympathy, but that's a topic for another episode. Now, to be fair, what I will say is that I do understand one point that these people are trying to make. Because the thing that a lot of people are actually really pressed about is the show's depiction of age play or Cassie dressing up as a baby for her OnlyFans stuff. So one OnlyFans girl said, There is just a lot that is ridiculous and cartoonish about it. There is so much that they have her doing that is not even allowed on OnlyFans. And that alone is infuriating. The age play stuff where she's dressed up as a baby in a diaper, for example. Credit card processors have very strict rules you have to abide by, and the rules are getting stricter all the time. Now. What I do find interesting about this quote is that she's not saying that it's gross, that it's reprehensible. She's simply saying it's not allowed. So why would you do that? Rather than saying, this is so grotesque. I am embarrassed by this. This is awful. We push back against these allegations. She's just saying the credit card processors won't allow it. Like, that's not very convincing. Anyway. Another one said, in the climate we're in, that they dressed her up as a baby to make pornographic OnlyFans content was beyond troubling and again, serves to perpetrate the stereotypes that sex workers have no moral compass and that they will do anything for for money. And then there's always this untrue stigma that somehow sex work is synonymous with sex trafficking and abuse. Maybe it's because the rates of sex trafficking and abuse within the pornographic porn world sex work community is insane. It's a very real thing. Anyway, she goes on and says, and they just said, let's make a joke of it. That is so funny, but I am not laughing. Now. Here's the thing. I understand that a lot of these girls, these creators, that they don't do that, that they don't cross that line with age play, whatever it is. But we also know that other people do that. It might be more common than anybody actually wants to admit. We live in a climate where journalists in mainstream publications have supported child sex robots to help minor attracted persons, AKA pedophiles. We have singers like Olivia Rodrigo. This is in a more tame but cultural sense. Like she's on stage on her tour right now wearing what looks like a baby bubble onesie while singing about sex on stage. There are people every day getting arrested for having child porn on their computers. Like, it's grotesque, it's dark, it's infuriating. But that also is the world that we live in. So love it or hate it, they are not portraying something that is so out there. That's crazy. That is incomprehensible. That would never be involved in this sex work industry. That doesn't exist. No, they are portraying something that unfortunately does exist. It might not exist on your OnlyFans page, but it certainly does exist in the world of porn. And you do also have to admit the irony of the girl saying that, you know, she feels like the show is portraying her as if she's willing to do anything for money. Like, girl, you still are on OnlyFans. Just saying. Anyway, what I actually think is happening is that maybe possibly crazy idea, but I think that maybe the storyline is just hitting a little too close to home for some of these people. I mean, listen to this. So this was actually posted by one of my old bosses at fee, which is the foundation of economic education, John. He said the timing of this Variety article is peak irony. OnlyFans models angry about how they're depicted on Euphoria HBO, including a surgeon who enjoys mummifying. So that's one of the characters on the show. It's a fetish. And then he goes on and he says that that piece was dropped days after an OnlyFans model was convicted in the filmed suffocation of a client that she wrapped in Saran Wrap. So, okay, so in the show, one of the characters, again, they are all sex workers. So this is not Sydney Sweeney's character. This is a different character. They get mummified in this weird sex fetish sense. And then just one week ago, an OnlyFans model literally pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter after she did that exact thing for a client with Saran Wrap and he died. So, no, this is not, again, it's not off base. This is not cartoonish, maybe, possibly it's actually a little bit realistic. Now, there was a great line in a Manhattan Institute article about this entire controversy, and I think it fits right in here. So the author wrote, sam Levinson's Euphoria is doing something similar and in some ways doing it more brazenly. The show is not conservative in its tone or its aesthetics. It is loudly offensive. It's hypersexual. It is soaked in rave like neon. Its characters are drug addicts, sex workers, and deeply damage young people doing deeply stupid things to themselves and each other. It does not directly or moralistically preach restraint, but it shows with unflinching honesty what life without restraint actually does to the people living it. And honestly, if you can look past the sometimes shocking, actually always shocking vulgarity, of the show, then I would say that that is probably a worthwhile message to explore and take away from the show. And so maybe that is what these triggered OnlyFans models are taking away from it. Maybe the mirror was held up in front of their faces and it's just a bit uncomfortable for the people out there who will do anything now, you know who else will do anything for money? All of those other big cell phone carriers. But not Pure Talk, which is why I love them. Now. Paying 70 or 80 or even $90 a month to Big Wireless for limited data is genuinely insanity. 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Like, if a man today were to say that he wants a girlfriend that can cook or clean, you might as well be screaming the N word. Okay, well, you sound like a Democrat. I'm not retarded. All right, so essentially in this clip, Sydney Sweeney's character is on a podcast that Trisha Paytas. She has a little bit of a cameo in the show. She's interviewing Cassie Sidney's character. And in this moment, Cassie is talking about men getting shamed because they say that they want a traditional woman. And then somebody off camera says, you sound like a Democratic, replies, I'm not retarded. And so now the entire Internet is debating whether that means that her character is a liberal or a Democrat. Because obviously in 2026, that is going to make or break whether you can watch a show, whether conservatives jump in and try to claim ownership, whether liberals cancel it. It is a whole thing. For example, over on Blue sky, they were really taking this moment seriously.

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In response to you sound like a Democrat. Sidney's character responded, I'm not retarded. Sidney did nothing wrong. It's like, all right, we're now bringing in the MAGA brigade to defend Sidney Sweeney and her character. That's not real. On Euphoria, somebody else commented and said, just when I think that this chick can't get any hotter. And I'm just like, I'm reading all of these comments and I want to tear out my hair because I'm like, people, it is a Hollywood show. It is a fictional TV show. This is not Sydney Sweeney we are dealing with here. She is acting. Maybe Sydney Sweeney in real life is right wing. Maybe she's not. I always hear conflicting things about her politics. I actually like that. I really don't know where she stands on politics, but she is literally playing a character. She is reading lines that somebody else wrote for her. I mean, unless something comes out and she like ad libbed this and added this in, maybe then we can have a different conversation. But Sam Levinson put this script in front of her and said, read these lines, which she did. And that is what you guys are responding to. And so what I want to say to the Internet at large, for the love of God, stop being so consumed by winning in politics or the culture war that you just become dumb and that everything is some kind of win or loss for your side and right wing Twitter talking to you people specifically like I'm sorry to break it to you, but this was actually not a win for you. Because if you look at this episode, this storyline in a broader context, it actually looks really bad. Like the whole shtick of this episode and what Sydney Sweeney's character is doing is that her onlyfans manager that's essentially like pimping her out is telling her to lean more and more into these trad right wing talking points to get more views and subscribers to get these traditional men to applaud her. And in doing this they are literally mocking and commenting on the people online who are easily swayed and exploited by random talking points and bad actors. Which you know, I would say is another relevant takeaway from this show. So maybe I should start watching Euphoria because it seems like there is a lot to learn here. Anyway, Entertainment Tonight wrote about this and provided even more context, saying in this episode, a montage of Cassie's media appearances sees the blonde bombshell leaning into the trad wife tropes in hopes of courting even more male subscribers. At one point she tells a pair of hosts that she feels like American men have been treated like second class citizens. While in the past men used to be hunters and gatherers and protectors, now they're being forced to walk around on their tippy toes. It's not natural, she adds in another interview, that men should be free. They should be able to speak their mind, voice their desires. All while her own husband, Nate, that's the character, sits at home waiting for his wife's newfound income to save him from a deep self imposed financial burden. And then they wrote later, while reaping the financial benefits of Cassie's online explosion, Maddy, that is her OnlyFans manager, her pimp, offers a pointed observation. You know what's funny? She asks Cassie. The angrier these idiots get, the more money you make, the more controversy you stir up, the crazier things you say, saying retarded, talking about trad wife, whatever, the more money they pay you. I mean again, I really don't like the show. I was never able to get into it. But that right there is honestly kind of brilliant. It is highlighting this one culture war fueled outrage culture and the people who will say or do anything to profit off of both sides. So as Sidney and her character have both the left and the right fighting over her, the sex workers are triggered while other progressives are now triggered because she in the show said the word retarded. Like somebody said, I was really upset that she said the R word. After everything that has taken place on this deranged show. Like for example, let's just take a look at the IMDb Parents Guide. We're just going to scroll through this here. Severe nudity, torture porn, several characters are raped, there are shootings and stabbings, drug abuse, all involving teenagers, high school students. But yeah, man, oh retarded that is. That just took it a step too far. I'm really upset that this really raunchy, vulgar HBO show uttered the word retarded. I mean give me a frickin break. Somebody on Reddit said middle aged man having anal sex with a teenage transsexual is one thing, but I draw the line at naughty words. Like exactly. You can hate the word. That's totally fine if you don't want to say it. If you have a problem with it, everybody has their own personal take on it. That is totally. But clutching your pearls at this point in time with euphoria, with everything that has happened on that show that you have watched on your screens is simply ridiculous. You are bored. You are looking for something to be outraged about. Go touch grass. I promise you you will be happier. You certainly will be a lot happier than the people who are spreading allegations that euphoria is now Republican coded. Like there are now entire Reddit threads dedicated to people breaking this down. And I just want you to hear what they say is Republican coded about euphoria. So like one person says there is broad anti California culture, apparently that is conservative to be anti California. They say everyone coming out to California is vapid fake pandemic era California imagery is used as a social decay backdrop. That's because if you are a common sense person, you know that there was social decay during the pandemic. Number two, direct anti California governance and policy. Nate and Jake's repeated complaints about how hard and costly it is to build a California. That's just common sense. Even if you are a progressive, you know that. You know that it is difficult. His ideological complaints. Too much red tape, too many rules, too much cost. Anti business environment. Oh gosh, we can't have that. We can't have them talking about that. Number four, this guy writes various anti woke coded comments. One character is described as working around a room full of blue haired zillennials who do the Gen Z finger clap. Number five, the Christian Texas family is anti modern liberal. One character muses that the homeschool teens with zero Internet access are the happiest people she's ever met. Yeah, probably because they are. Because you people are sex addicted and drug addicted. So guaranteed, the Christian homeschool teens who do not have access to TikTok are happier. But you're posting about this on Reddit so I doubt you would understand that traditional religious unplugged life is healthier than the opposite of modern liberal culture is spiritually empty. Correct. Number six, his last example is Mattie's comment of I believe in capitalism. It's so obvious it's a right wing dog whistle. Oh my gosh guys, it's so scary having to watch a fictional TV show and hear political tropes that do not affirm your beliefs. Oh dear Redditor, how will you ever survive this atrocity? Sorry if I have no sympathy whatsoever. It just makes me laugh. Now I'm sorry to inform all of the people who are losing their minds over this, but I just think that the creator, Sam Levinson, the creator of the show, that he just, just does not care. It is well established that the man is a weirdo. He is a master rage baiter and honestly, I think that he is critiquing everyone in society. He is holding up the mirror to our entire culture right now. Whether that is the Trad LARPing E girls and the trad men who subscribe to them. The onlyfans girls who sell their Vaginas Online for $3 a month subscriptions, yet they preach empowerment and feminism or just in general, all of the people who live with no moral compass and later have to face the consequences in their life from the outside looking in as somebody who does not have her panties and a bunch about all of it. That is what I'm seeing. And so my general take on all of this is that it is a fictional TV show. It is a TV show. Watch it, don't watch it, I don't care. You shouldn't care. But do not parade around desperately requiring that this fictional TV show affirms your political identity so that you feel all warm and fuzzy and can post about it and maybe get a thousand likes. It is a vulgar sex and drug fueled show. Caring that much about the values behind it is just embarrassing, honestly. And actually the only thing that really disturbs me about this entire situation is the real life off camera. Sydney Sweeney and her terrible taste in men because she is dating Scooter freaking Braun Like Sidney, I I defended you against the Nazi allegations. You triggering OnlyFans girls the right and the left. But this might actually be my line in the sand. Scooter Braun Just kidding. Date whoever you want. But I'll. But maybe not.

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