America is fucking broken :(

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  1. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    I hate what America is becoming.
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  2. Ten Lubak

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    I like what Coke did here, they covered all their bases advertising to just about every group that resides within America in only one commercial and thanks to the mouth breathers are generating even more buzz than they probably intended. Unless they had considered that outcome which makes it all the more brilliant.

    There's a reason that the two most common words on the planet are "ok" and "Coca Cola".
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  3. Archangel

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    Unfortunately that sums up quite a bit of the liberal mindset.
  4. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Well, at least this thread is an interesting object lesson in who understands marketing and who's brainlocked by partisan-think.
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  5. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Because not becoming irrationally angry when he sees non-white people totally means he's embarrassed to be an American.
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  6. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Are you guys smoking from the same crack pipe?
    • Coke puts out an add with people enthusiastically siging about how they love America
    • Liberals (and thoughtful conservatives) say nice ad, bravo!
    • Some conservatives say boo hoo, Coke hates America!
    • Volpone, on seeing that these conservatives are embarrassed that other people can love America, decides that it is the folks who like the patriotic ad who are embarassed
    • Archangel says, "herp, derp."
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  7. T.R

    T.R Don't Care

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    Saw the ad and loved it. Reminded me of the uplifting commercials coke used to do.

    My problems with coke go back to when they started messing with the drink formula.Now THAT is a travesty.
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  8. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Note my preference for Mexican Coke up thread. Corn syrup has ruined American soda :(
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  9. Liet

    Liet Dr. of Horribleness, Ph.D.

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    So, speaking of Super Bowl ads and a broken America, this aired as a Superbowl ad during a local tv commercial break in Savannah, Georgia:

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    Coca Cola got in some stupid hot water recently over an ad campaign in Europe called "Reasons to Believe". There were a few different versions produced. This is the one that showed in Norway, Sweden, Holland and the UK:



    Check out the gay wedding at about the 0:45 mark. It's the wedding of a couple of gay guys in Australia that was also featured in one of the google Zeitgeist videos.

    This is the version that aired in Ireland, France and Denmark:



    Skip to about the 0:38 mark. The two gay guys have now turned into Australian interracial (but straight) youtube couple Jamie and Nikki.

    Yup. You guessed it. The gays raised a fucking stink over it, called coke all the names of the day and generally shoveled vitriol at them for daring not to have the gays in all versions of the ad. Typical. :rolleyes:
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    On the tongue it feels slippery and syrup like because it is syrup where as soda made with real can sugar is just as sweet but has a crisper, cleaner mouth feel.
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    ed629 Morally Inept Banned

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    Interesting, I didn't even catch that. I was looking for something that would have been offensive, didn't see anything other than serving cake without any frosting on it.
  13. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Five words:
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    Iowa Corn Growers
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    If you have any intellectual honesty in you at all you know there are a great many liberals that think Americans should feel guilty for being Americas and that America is cause of most of the worlds problems.

    You can try to be as insulting and mocking as you want, but you and I both know what I'm saying is absolutely true.
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    Well, if you say it's true, I'm sold. :lol:
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  17. Archangel

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    Anyone who has spent any time on the internet knows it's true.

    Hey, if the left is going to constantly judge the right by it's extremists, don't get all butthurt when it's done to you.
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  18. Forbin

    Forbin Do you feel fluffy, punk?

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  19. Amaris

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    You know, it's never a good thing to say "hey, they can act like ignorant, brainless asses, well watch what I can do!"
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    Well it's just stupid watching smacktards act like there isn't a noticeable part of the left that feel Americans should be ashamed for EVERYTHING. I mean look how they love that story about Americans traveling in Europe saying they are Canadian.

    It's actually pathetic watching you all go "nuh-uh", when every single one of us has seen it.

    It would be like a right winger saying there are no rightwingers trying to legislate religeon. It's such an amazingly transparent piece of bullshit you can't believe someone would say it.
  21. Amaris

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    Cite sources, unless it's just your opinion. If it is, say so, but if you have the proper sources, cite them.
  22. tafkats

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    And yet, OK Cola tanked.
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  23. Archangel

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    Reality is my source. Everyone on this forum has seen what I'm talking about.

    So now run along Garamat and say you're right because I'm not going to waste time going over the internet to find sources you will ignore.
  24. Amaris

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    So it's your opinion, then? Come on, now, I'm offering you a chance to back down without looking like a prick. If it's your opinion, say so.
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    "Trying to legislate religion" is an observable action. "Thinking people should be ashamed" is a characterization of another's mental state and therefore not necessarily accurate.

    It's more like saying, "Conservatives hate poor people and want to trash the environment."
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  26. Amaris

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    Exactly. See, with people like Archangel, someone like me could say "I love my country!" and his "proof" that I don't would be that I'm liberal, and since he assumes liberals hate their country, I must be lying, so it reinforces his opinion as "proof" of fact, when it isn't.
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    Since the Reagan Administration, I can remember hearing stories about the State Department advising Americans traveling abroad to claim they're Canadian because of concerns of international terrorism.

    And I don't know of anyone who's claimed to be Canadian (though it certainly could have happened) when they've traveled overseas, but I do know that I often don't tell people (in America, home of the free) that I'm an atheist, not because I'm "ashamed" of being an atheist, but because I don't want to be lectured about how I'm going to a non-existent hell. If I were in Europe and somebody wearing a "Fuck America" T-shirt came up to me and asked me where I was from, I'd probably say "Canada," simply because I've got more important things to do with my time than listen to some asshole rant on about shit that they may or may not know anything about.
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  28. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Hmm, no doubt you think that's true. And I'm sure if you scratch hard enough, you'll find some. But there is a huge difference between wanting America to be a better place, and thinking we should feel guilty. Anyway, fuck you with that shit, because you were talking to me, not liberals writ large.
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  29. Lanzman

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    And now I must destroy you. :brood:
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