Dodgers' Alex Call blasts controversial Sydney Sweeney ad

[u/_HGCenty]

https://www.thebiglead.com/dodgers-alex-call-sydney-sweeney-novig-commercial-soft-porn/

Since the last post about this got deleted because it contained a X screenshot, hopefully this one actually stays for comment.

[u/BalzacTheGreat]

All the sports betting ads, ED ads, pharma ads, the Hegseth fascist military ads, the unhinged political ads, it’s all fucking enough already. 

EDIT: I'm glad we can all agree on something, flairs notwithstanding.

[u/unfortunatebastard → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Man, those war ads are so weird. And we’re playing for it.

[u/PackageDangerous1954 → u/unfortunatebastard]

WARRIOR ETHOS,PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, aka bombing schools and hospitals

[u/FORTY8pak → u/PackageDangerous1954]

Nothing says warrior like having a hair and makeup suite set up in the Pentagon.

[u/grubas → u/FORTY8pak]

And AI/fake as fuck looking backgrounds 

[u/Upset-Dingo-6879 → u/FORTY8pak]

This. That soft bitch is as far from the term "warrior" as you can possibly get. He sure likes to cosplay though.

[u/timeoftheoath117 → u/FORTY8pak]

Its been a while since I worked there, but pretty sure the Pentagon has a makeup store lol. Also a very convenient flower store for the poor dudes working all hours so they can bring flowers home to their wife.

[u/SupahBlah → u/PackageDangerous1954]

KANE LIVES

[u/JortsFanClub → u/SupahBlah]

PEACE THROUGH POWER

[u/Doyometer → u/SupahBlah]

I understood this reference

[u/meerkatmreow → u/PackageDangerous1954]

Is war even worth it without the war crimes?

[u/HonorableJudgeIto → u/PackageDangerous1954]

WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EASTASIA

[u/Bourbonstr8up → u/PackageDangerous1954]

Warrior ethos makes me laugh every time that stupid thing is on.

[u/megacia → u/PackageDangerous1954]

Sigh, take an upvote Yankees fan.

[u/jdbolick → u/unfortunatebastard]

Who is that ad supposed to target? The people who crow about patriotism are too busy at their keyboards to serve.

The people who actually join the military want a job with benefits.

[u/sentry_chad → u/jdbolick]

There’s a fresh batch of 18 year olds every year

[u/jlrc2 → u/sentry_chad]

Those batches are getting smaller every year as well, so the armed forces will need to get an increasingly high percentage of them to sign up if they want to maintain their numbers.

[u/galacticdude7 → u/jlrc2]

It's almost as if something happened 18 years ago that ruined the economy and made people not want to have kids

[u/jlrc2 → u/galacticdude7]

Yeah that was definitely a metaphorical kick in the nuts although it seems like there are other things at play too

[u/HudsonMelvale2910 → u/galacticdude7]

Uhg, my first thought was “What happened in the late 90s?”

[u/pepperouchau → u/jdbolick]

Somehow is even more cringe that the “army of one climb a mountain hoorah” stuff I remember as a kid

[u/tonesloe → u/pepperouchau]

At least those didn't feel like something written for an Ironman movie, that is supposed to be so over the top you know it's fake.

[u/BritzBeef → u/jdbolick]

Reassure the people who are already on their side. It's like how car ads are often actually for people who have already bought the car and meant to help them feel reassured of their purchase decision.

[u/myassholealt → u/BritzBeef]

meant to help them feel reassured of their purchase decision.

So many American manufucturer ads stopped even touting the actual build quality of the car and it's all blah blah, America, Patriot, America, Be Proud, Buy our vehicle cause America.

[u/sculltt → u/myassholealt]

Car ads are almost all emotional appeals, even if they aren't claiming patriotism. There's no logical way to try to convince people to buy a hugely expensive item with massive depreciation that people use on average 4% of the time (and even then, most of that time people hate using it, because it means dealing with/being stuck in traffic.)

[u/myassholealt → u/sculltt]

Maybe I'm in the minority then, cause back in the day they used to provide info like crash test ratings and other data from tests or award categories. It wasn't exclusively the patriotism angle. Even some of the pickup truck ads don't even advertise how much weight in can tow. It's just 30 seconds telling us in multiple ways to be a patriot by buying their product.

[u/Asshole_Poet → u/jdbolick]

We keep the middle class poor and college expensive so we can sucker in kids who want to escape the cycle. If some of them die, fuck it!

[u/PostIronicPosadist → u/jdbolick]

incels mostly.

[u/tokengaymusiccritic → u/jdbolick]

It's just as much intended to reassert the social norm of troop worship and the image of "America (and the GOP) = strong"

[u/jdbolick → u/tokengaymusiccritic]

But the people this actually will work on already feel that way because they're beer bellied LARPers who put Punisher logos on their lifted pick-ups. Those guys aren't signing up for anything but diabetes.

[u/deathinmidjuly → u/jdbolick]

Those people are immensely important to this regime.

You have people at home that would aggressively shut down any questioning of what the hell our military is doing.

Keeps red towns red and keeps regular people from understanding that you can condemn your government while still being patriotic.

Sorry for the rant.

[u/NewAccountSamePerson → u/jdbolick]

My toddler thinks the vehicles in it are cool

[u/darkhorse21980 → u/jdbolick]

But do they really want to enlist when they could get stuck indefinitely on a rusting aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean?

[u/travers329 → u/jdbolick]

And a whole lot of them have been offline since Ukraine hit those Russian data centers. What a strange coincidence! Like mentions of Fauci dropping off by like 60% at the same time on Twitter.

[u/HighKing_of_Festivus → u/jdbolick]

People who think it's badass to send other people to war

[u/Icy_Suspect_3735 → u/jdbolick]

The von Bismarcks

[u/FopFillyFoneBone → u/jdbolick]

My wife and I are both veterans from long ago, we both got out 24 years ago. Just yesterday we were talking about the current state of the military and its leadership and my wife says to me, "Who the hell would join the military today?"

I imagine those ads are completely useless and targeted at people who already know they want to join the military, ad or no ad.

[u/Burto72 → u/unfortunatebastard]

The fact that there is a war.gov website is kind of disturbing.

[u/grubas → u/Burto72]

The entire ad is Fascist.  It's not fascist coded it's not fascist winking.  It's literally what you'd expect a character to turn on the TV to illustrate that this is a fascist government.

[u/lot183 → u/grubas]

I mean they are live streaming an execution. All the hallmarks

[u/grubas → u/lot183]

Live execution by firing squad of a dude who is in a wheelchair.  

Even the fucking British in 1916 thought people wouldn't like that!

[u/OrangeCrusher22 → u/grubas]

Would you like to know more?

[u/RogueModron → u/Burto72]

I still kind of can't believe that it's now called the War Department.

[u/karawec403 → u/RogueModron]

Legally it’s not. Congress named it DoD, only Congress can change it. War is just the current administration’s preferred pronouns.

[u/Opening-Bandicoot859 → u/RogueModron]

For most of our history, it's been called the war department.

[u/RogueModron → u/Opening-Bandicoot859]

I understand that.

Regardless, I still kind of can't believe that it's now called the War Department.

[u/VarRalapo → u/Burto72]

Everything about your country in 2026 is disturbing.

[u/ThreeEyesWhitePerson → u/Burto72]

From the regime that supposedly was against forever wars.

[u/draw2discard2 → u/Burto72]

Truth in advertising. I like this a lot better than calling it "defense" while doing more or less the same shit.

[u/sentry_chad → u/Burto72]

Why is that disturbing? 

Edit: why downvoted for asking such a vanilla question? 

[u/Hobbies-R-Happiness → u/sentry_chad]

Because we shouldn’t seek out war…

[u/sentry_chad → u/Hobbies-R-Happiness]

I don’t see how that follows? Bulk of the resources are spent on preparation/defense/deterrence of war

[u/photomike → u/sentry_chad]

Huh, maybe they should change the name to the Department of Defense then

[u/sentry_chad → u/photomike]

dank red herring. Thankfully was able to find a genuine articulate answer from someone 

[u/angryjew → u/sentry_chad]

Defense? Would it be defense if I sat in your yard & prevented you from bringing groceries home & then shot at you when you tried to get past me? When was the last time the US actually defended itself from aggression vs being the aggressor.

[u/sentry_chad → u/angryjew]

Red herring, bad faith. Thankfully found one articulate redditor willing to answer a simple question 

[u/penguinopph → u/sentry_chad]

Bulk of the resources are spent on preparation/defense/deterrence of war

Then why did they change the name from Department of Defense to Department of War?

[u/40_Is_Not_Old → u/penguinopph]

Because the insecure manchild running that department thought it sounds "tough".

Seriously, almost every single thing Hegseth does is the actions of a deeply insecure individual, who makes policy based on performative toughness.

[u/Opening-Bandicoot859 → u/penguinopph]

It hasn't officially changed. It was the war department until after WWII, when it was renamed DOD.

[u/penguinopph → u/Opening-Bandicoot859]

Well, the commercial straight up says "Paid for by the Department of War" on it.

[u/Opening-Bandicoot859 → u/penguinopph]

I understand, but officially, it's still the DOD. Changing it officially would require an act of Congress.

[u/sentry_chad → u/penguinopph]

Red herring, not the point under discussion. Thankfully I found one commenter that was able to articulate an actual response 

[u/Galxloni2 → u/sentry_chad]

i dont think you know what red herring means. you keep using it wrong

[u/sentry_chad → u/Galxloni2]

Then explain why it's wrong (you can't)

[u/Galxloni2 → u/sentry_chad]

They aren't changing the point or distracting from the discussion. The point was why the name department of war was bad. Your argument was that they defend against war and these people are making the point that department of defense fits that way better. It's entirely the point of the discussion. You just dont like the response

[u/Burto72 → u/sentry_chad]

Because it gives the impression that we are a country that is seeking to go to war. When a new soldier enlists in the armed forces, I'd prefer they do it with the intention and mindset of defending our country (aka the Department of Defense), as opposed to seeking out war against others.

[u/sentry_chad → u/Burto72]

Fair enough. That’s not my interpretation , but I see what you’re saying here

[u/IndycarFan65 → u/sentry_chad]

Then what is your interpretation?

[u/sentry_chad → u/IndycarFan65]

To me it's just descriptive, it's the department dealing with war related activities

[u/maxweb1 → u/unfortunatebastard]

fucking disgusting and more than a few obvious nazi nods

[u/renee_gade → u/maxweb1]

never thought the term would be neutered to the point it strikes zero emotion. thanks kids.

(my bad. those commercials are definitely akin to racial extermination propaganda. the term is as strong as ever.)

[u/wazzledudes → u/renee_gade]

Sounds like more of a you problem

[u/Call555JackChop → u/unfortunatebastard]

https://giphy.com/gifs/JtrlqX5gCiixG

[u/D_Simmons → u/unfortunatebastard]

Why are the Braves playing for ads?

[u/Chance_Ad2503 → u/unfortunatebastard]

I think they’re AI

[u/RobutNotRobot → u/unfortunatebastard]

Even the 80s satire movies like Robocop couldn't have come up with something that dumb.

[u/Far_Cry_2173 → u/unfortunatebastard]

As someone living in MA, they straight up don’t even waste their money showing them here. I’ve seen them online but not once on TV 

[u/hbailey311 → u/unfortunatebastard]

funny how it says something about peace and then it shows “war.gov” at the end.

[u/Kidspud → u/unfortunatebastard]

The bald eagle looks like it's posing for a thirst trap to send to potential mates

[u/Gloomy-Historian761 → u/unfortunatebastard]

I’m as American as they come, but the War.Gov ads make me want to slit my wrists. Imagine WWII vets watching that Nazi propaganda.

[u/murdochthesungod → u/unfortunatebastard]

Not nearly as weird as the HIV prep ones

[u/EggsDontLieAtNight → u/murdochthesungod]

You choose to be this hateful, and that is sad.