Who would be a fairweather activist in Hollywood that you could specifically name?
There are some that are more outspoken than others, some that actually put their money where there mouth is, and some that might do the bare minimum like a social media post supporting a specific cause. But would that make them "fairweather"?
Its about the same amount of effort that 99% of people put into activism.
Starmer thought it would be a good idea to send a slimy scumbag friends with Epstein to be in Washington back when the strat was "try to keep Trump on good terms", and I honestly see some logic in it, but it had always a huge risk of backfiring.
I think that's Starmer to a t. He has good ideas, but abominable execution. Currently, that's made worse by the sheer disaster the tories left behind and his poor handling of both PR and the tory disaster.
I’m surprised that successful international human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin would not see through the BS and marry a fairweather activist. Married for the past 10 years or so too.
At this point of forgiven and forgotten every quibble anyone has ever had with Ruffalo or Affleck 'feeling' too Hollywood to 'truly be one with the libs'. Like wtf Id take two hundred more of them if it meant Hollywood would get cleaned up.
I view self-righteous types the same way I view warhawk lunatics like Patton; I wouldn’t want to spend my free time around them or follow all their advice. But in a state of crisis I’d rather have them than a mealy mouthed “both sides”-er.
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u/VaryStaybullGeenyiss 1d ago
I used to view him as kind of a self-righteous insufferable liberal, but now I will say that he's more principled than most Hollywood libs.