They make Apple products and it's weird to pick the NBA when basketball is actually huge growing in China. I have no idea wtf a sydney sweeney is or why china should be jealous.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

She just some actor I have no idea why her fame is somehow better than people being able to afford housing, but that's capitalist logic for you

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because capitalists reduce people to commodities, so because "Booba! Awooga! Awooga!" and comically large blondes, Sydney Sweeney is no longer a person, but a thing to be bought and sold.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

comically large blondes

This phrasing makes me think of a 9 foot tall blonde woman and that is indeed comical

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

The new season of Euphoria has a bit where she turns into a kaiju and is a giant that terrorizes LA. Very much an "author's barely disguised fetish."

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

She has the FREEDOM to make millions and the FREEDOM to spend those millions on a house on a Florida beach that will be underwater in 5 years

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Yao Ming started off in the Shanghai Sharks before joining the Rockets.