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  1. I'm just gonna do a photodump. More pics will come over the next couple days, still a lot being set up here in Birmingham.
    3 points
  2. The above pics are some of my favorite pieces here. Such a good capturing of childhood imagination of fantasy, Zelda meets Enid blyton meets Tolkien and More
    3 points
  3. Order is kinda fucked up but I don't think it matters...
    2 points
  4. Chicken Maryland, the dish and the cut (sold in the deli at woolies, have a few in the freezer right now) rock. Lungbuster ride, one of my home brews (a Pilsner citra SMaSH summer ale) and my hops garden.
    2 points
  5. Shit made me laugh. I'm not happy with politicians, but currently I was at least entertained. I'd like Trump to lock/block her out of her office like George Costanza. I also had the recent thought that Ann Coulter vs Nancy Pelosi would be a dope fight to see.
    1 point
  6. Yea you never see tampon ads where they act like cranky bitches
    1 point
  7. My first thoughts were, this seemed like a bad move on their part considering it's a mens brand. So att the very least, there has to be a small percentage of rapists, professional sexual harassers, and wife beaters who may take offense at this attack on their lifestyle exposing them to revenue loss. Jokes aside, there's an even more significant number of non-raping, otherwise well behaved customers that may also choose to grow beards now, or switch brands, I'll return to that later. From a marketing perspective, I assume the powers that be in Gillet concluded this commercial would drive increased brand loyalty to a broader audience. As far as brand strategy goes, this is clearly a gamble. On one hand It's already accomplished mass exposure to a very broad audience, for a fraction of what it would cost if they paid for this level of publicity. I mean who's actually seen this commercial outside of the discussions like this, sparked by going viral from it's controversy. For the most part though, I assume the majority of their customer base will identify with the virtues signaled here, and are in agreement with the social narrative this dog whistle portrays. With that said, because this is tied to social politics some will choose to be offended by this. The reason I use the word "choose"' is they're probably not engaging in any other "male toxicity" themselves, so the commercial doesn't attack them directly. Yet some will consider this commercial an attack against them based on the obvious progressive dog whistles. It's PC enough to not blatantly paint men as a group in a bad light just for being men. The commercial never made a single controversial statement within it's context, but: • What if it only focused in the exact same way on minority men • What if there was a maxi pad commercial that pointed out the societal ills women tend to commit more. There would be instant negative backlash, so I get the obvious hypocrisy, and logical inconsistency involved here. Criticisms are aimed at a group of people which happens to be men, and yet somehow this is acceptable to people who normally champion the virtues of being politically correct. That's an idea worth examining, but to me, being triggered by this commercial is misguided, and an example of social conservitives trending towards the same unproductive tactics used (somewhat successfully) by progressives. With that said, I personally lean towards building, and maintaining a free society where groups of people like entire genders, religious groups, or nationalities can be criticized, and examined openly. We don't need one set of rules for one group, and a separate set of rules for the other. One of the reasons I laugh so hard at the N-word pass memes, it's hilarious because it explores this idea . This over zealous enforcement of politically correct speech is incompatible with a free society IMO. I'm not impressed by people who get instantly offended by beliefs outside of their narrative. The right adopting that "I'm offended" tactic to fight fire with fire is almost like a hypocrisy to the 2nd power, ironically being used in some cases to point out the original hypocrisy. I just don't think it leads to any productive discussion. Sure, technically it's against their own rules to single out a group for criticism, and so on, but that doesn't offend me personally. I feel no one is above criticism, and in a truly free society we should be free to express ideas that might be offensive to others.
    1 point
  8. its like stand up comics today "clapter" is what its called...where you say something in line with whatever the "IT" agenda is today and instead of it being funny, people clap with agreement this some old bullshit
    1 point
  9. I do not think it will have the same impact as this work from nearly 50 years ago speaking to another cultural awareness and desire for equity.
    1 point
  10. I agree with the fact these companies are doing this to leverage huge ad campaigns for relatively low costs, generating massive exposure over night. I do think this, if even on a subconscious level immune to polling, plays an affect role on the consumer. It talks about the gender narratives in our society, which are real, the ad is mad clunky but i fucks with it they did a good job. Its interesting to me because its openly addressing the zeitgeist. No matter what, there will always be at least 49% of people that have a issue with fuck all. Shit now Im speculating on the motives of the media and a razor company, which is hq right down the street, what have we all become. Good weigh in.
    1 point
  11. Name a country that has 320 million people in which this works. There are some exceptions that show socialism working okay, but without exception its been countries with comparatively small populations and generally with comparatively abundant natural resources (which lead to stronger exports and therefore economies). And again, that's not to get into the actual legality of it. We have a constitution that explicitly defines the scope of our government, as well as the rights of its people. No doubt that free market capitalism is imperfect as is man himself, but it's made the USA the nation that is and there is something to be said about that. Kudos to those willing to help their fellow man. In fact, I'd argue that the USA as a whole has done quite a bit in that regard, but you can't force that upon someone. Taxes are theft no matter how you qualify it. It's taking the success of one mans labor and redistributing it to another under the threat of violence. You don't pay taxes, you get fined. You don't pay the fine, you lose your freedom. You resist, and you're met with violence. Plain and simple.
    1 point
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