• Coca Cola's 'America the Beautiful' Super Bowl commercial stirs anger
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So has this [I]actually[/I] caused national outrage or is it a small but vocal group as usual?
[QUOTE=lolz3;43778605]Oh how wrong you are. People just impulse buy cheap shit and do not look for it. The only things in my house that was not made in USA is the silverware (Taiwan) Drinking glasses (France) Television (Japan) Bookshelf (Canada) Replica Colt .45 Peacemaker (Spain) Replica Volcanic 10 (Spain) Replica Colt Pocket Pistol (Spain) Replica 'Potato Masher' Grenade (Spain) Authentic Chemical Gas Mask (Russia) Authentic German WWII Paratrooper boot knife (Germany) Everything else in my house was made in USA. If I can not find a certian item made in USA I do all research I can to find the best next in line for quality and price. If it's $65 for France glasses but $15 for China glasses, I'm paying for the ones in France. Edit: Looks like I'm dumb for purchasing quality items instead of cheap quantity items.[/QUOTE] Was anything inside what you're posting from, including your modem, made in the USA?
[QUOTE=demoguy08;43781389]So has this [I]actually[/I] caused national outrage or is it a small but vocal group as usual?[/QUOTE] It's just a small, loud as shit group. Personally I didn't even recognize the tune until "From sea to shining sea", and it'd been bugging me the whole time because I knew I heard it fucking [b]somewhere[/b]
[QUOTE=demoguy08;43781389]So has this [I]actually[/I] caused national outrage or is it a small but vocal group as usual?[/QUOTE] Nobody I know even talked about this commercial all day. People were too focused on the game itself.
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;43778140]Oh god, this is gold, I love when morons do this shit.[/QUOTE] Wow it's so funny that people in my country that can vote are racist ha ha
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;43781134]People who hate immigration remind me of a political cartoon from 1893: [img]http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/marchandslides.bak/5023.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] It's amazing how relevant that is, even today.
holy shit, only Americans would get offended by this ad.
I think it's cute that some americans think they're an ethnicity now.
Coca-cola really doesn't care about politics, just what is politically popular to push their product into the said culture. They're not going to squash their market by promoting that only white people drink their sugary crap filled shit.
[QUOTE=Vasili;43782288]They're not going to squash their market by promoting that only white people drink their sugary crap filled shit.[/QUOTE] Yeah but its bloody delicious.
[QUOTE=meatwad253;43780872][thumb]http://i.imgur.com/IXyOAI1.jpg[/thumb]who is this guy?...[/QUOTE] Apparently he works for Fox.
Because, as we all know, Our Fair Lady Liberty's famous inscription reads: bring me your wealthy English-speaking Caucasians.
The ad made me want to move to America. The comments made me reconsider.
"GOD DAMMIT WHY CANT WE JUST BE ALL WHITE, ANGLO-SAXON ENGLISH SPEAKERS???"
What's wrong with my people.
[QUOTE=EnlightenDead;43781366]even still 29 percent of the people in the "deep south" is hardly a large group of republicans[/QUOTE] I disagree, in a situation where the question is "Do you think that interracial marriage should be legal or illegal?", and 29% say it should be illegal, and another 17% are "not sure" that is a pretty large population of republicans. It should be blatantly obvious to anyone that two consenting people should have every right to marry no matter what the color of their skin is.
I found this ad distasteful, but because it's nationalistic, self-congratulatory and has nothing to do with their stupid product. They are tapping into people's nationalistic tendencies for their own economic gain. Not the first or last to do so, but that doesn't make it ethical. But of course, leave it to bigots to criticize the commercial for all the wrong things.
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;43779964][I]"We don't need a Nazi Party in the United States. They need to be eliminated."[/I] -A Nazi No, no it doesn't actually. [editline]4 February 2013[/editline] Your excessive tolerance of unjustified beliefs like those which are held by neo-Nazis peddling their intolerance and blind hatred is not admirable, it's fucking stupid because it's precisely what enables them in the first place (and, therefore, besides being fucking stupid, is also quite hilarious at the same time because of how counterproductive it is). I'm definitely giving Facepunch too much credit here though in assuming that most people here will be able to understand how a proper society should work on this kind of a fundamental level. So let me make it simple for you all, as I have before: You don't fight intolerance with tolerance, you fight it with your own unrestricted intolerance of intolerance.[/QUOTE] I find your statement to be hypocritical. You wouldn't happen to be a member of the Antifa? It all reminds me of some liberal people I've spoken to, who believed that homophobia, transphobia, racism, etcetera should be outlawed, and that people who held those opinions should acquire mental-therapy and/or jailtime, for the sake of them wanting to live in a "Liberal, fascist-free, and individual-freedom embracing society", while not realizing that the society they wanted was the actually "fascistic" one, with the small exception that it happened to go hand-in-hand with their own subjective opinions and morals.
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;43779964][i]"We don't need a Nazi Party in the United States. They need to be eliminated."[/i] -A Nazi No, no it doesn't actually. [editline]4 February 2013[/editline] Your excessive tolerance of unjustified beliefs like those which are held by neo-Nazis peddling their intolerance and blind hatred is not admirable, it's fucking stupid because it's precisely what enables them in the first place (and, therefore, besides being fucking stupid, is also quite hilarious at the same time because of how counterproductive it is). I'm definitely giving Facepunch too much credit here though in assuming that most people here will be able to understand how a proper society should work on this kind of a fundamental level. So let me make it simple for you all, as I have before: You don't fight intolerance with tolerance, you fight it with your own unrestricted intolerance of intolerance.[/QUOTE] [b]Wow[/b] okay. On whose authority should we determine on who's an awful person? What's an awful belief? Last time I checked, the last bunch of people that determined who's an awful person and what's an awful belief were these guys. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Destroy_the_old_world_Cultural_Revolution_poster.png[/img] Why the Hell are people so intent on trying to suppress on what they think is 'awful' instead of letting it be?
Thats definitely not the "last time" Africa has some shit going on right now.
[QUOTE=Rixxz2;43784398]I find your statement to be hypocritical. You wouldn't happen to be a member of the Antifa?[/QUOTE] It's hypocritical but necessary to protect the rights of others. Something they wouldn't approve of. In my opinion, protecting the rights of those being oppressed from oppressors goes over the rights of the oppressors.
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;43780554]mind throwin out the details of your machine? I'm really curious now[/QUOTE] It was $3,500 just for the fans and cooling system for the graphics cards.
They don't even speak in proper english, do they? It's some bastardization of the real British english, AFAIK... Maybe America should create it's own language so all those tumblr freaks can fuck right off into their own little Americon-speaking community.
[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;43784682]They don't even speak in proper english, do they? It's some bastardization of the real British english, AFAIK... Maybe America should create it's own language so all those tumblr freaks can fuck right off into their own little Americon-speaking community.[/QUOTE] Piss off Argentina is gonna remain a third world shithole for a while pal
[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;43784682]They don't even speak in proper english, do they? It's some bastardization of the real British english, AFAIK... Maybe America should create it's own language so all those tumblr freaks can fuck right off into their own little Americon-speaking community.[/QUOTE] Its called slang.
[QUOTE=lolz3;43784609]It was $3,500 just for the fans and cooling system for the graphics cards.[/QUOTE] have you considered the possibility that paying $3,500 for an excuse to stroke your boner to the stars and stripes is neither a wise nor necessary investment [editline]4th February[/editline] fyi you don't need to pay that much money to perform autofellatio and think of apple pies and amish people
[QUOTE=lolz3;43784609]It was $3,500 just for the fans and cooling system for the graphics cards.[/QUOTE] Complete and utter bollocks. Where did you buy these supposed items from?
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;43778794]i really don't understand why people say this[/QUOTE] It depends - the US doesn't have an explicitly defined official language. But it may have an implicitly defined one depending if laws about english exist. For instance if federal laws mandate that all children must be thought english in schools, then the US actually has an official language albeit implicitly defined.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;43784899]It depends - the US doesn't have an explicitly defined official language. But it may have an implicitly defined one depending if laws about english exist. For instance if federal laws mandate that all children must be thought english in schools, then the US actually has an official language albeit implicitly defined.[/QUOTE] however on a state level over half the country has english as the official language
Please tell me this is when we can finally start the cleansing. Just track down everyone who made these tweets and shoot 'em in the head. It'll be a net positive, I promise.
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