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Seems someone got the whole thing seriously wrong, but evidently there was a casting call for actors for a Cadillac commercial that was looking for "alt-right" or "neo-nazi" types.
Cadillac caused a stir this week when a casting service put out a request on behalf of the American luxury brand looking to fill the role of an "alt-right (neo-Nazi)" in a new commercial. Cadillac denied it had ever authorized the notice and condemned it, while the casting company took responsibility, saying that it had been issued by mistake. Regardless of who did what, the idea had to have been hatched somewhere and by someone, which reveals something far more troubling than a mere streak of poor taste and even poorer judgement in corporate America: the marketability and mainstreaming of an alt-right population, or those "identified variously with anti-globalist and anti-immigrant stances, cartoon frogs, white nationalists, pick-up artists, anti-Semites, and a rising tide of right-wing populism," as Tablet contributor Jacob Siegel wrote in a profile of Paul Gottfried, the alt-right's "godfather."
Hmm, maybe now that the "alt-right" has become just another marketing demographic, we do not have to worry about them taking over the country? I mean, who buys Cadillacs as a status symbol anymore? Not like they are your father's Oldsmobile. Except that, really, it was your father's Olds. So that brand no longer exists. Are we at the point where we can say, "Brietbart: it's not your grandpa's fascism!"? Except, really, maybe it is?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @02:11PM
And flyover country states vote republican even though the party acts against their best interests. One big difference is that the senators in those blue states support government social programs and subsidies at least call them that. In the red states they have to use code words for subsidies and handouts so that they can pretend they are really some sort of magical small government incentive program or something. The populace states, particularly the coastal states, have subsidized and propped up the "breadbasket" for ever. If the democrats really wanted to turn those states blue, they'd give them exactly what they say they want and stop sending them more money then they send to Washington.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 30 2016, @02:27PM
You created the money transfer conditions, you don't get to bitch about them as well. Give us red states a chance to get out of poverty and we'll take it; destroy all paths to wealth and subsidize poverty and it'll only get worse.
What you fundamentally do not get is when you throw money at something, you get more of it. This is the reason for basically every problem this nation has. Put money where you want something to be, not where it is.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday December 30 2016, @04:12PM
Wow, how about you take some responsibility for your own actions?
So your argument is that Red States are poor because "Democrats"? Did it ever occur to you that the Red States are poor because of the policies implemented by the politicians you voted for?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @10:53PM
Did it ever occur to you that the Red States are poor because of the policies implemented by the politicians you voted for?
"Kansas uber alles!!" All hail Brownback!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:41AM
I think you need to reread. Kansas is poor because Kansas has no industry to speak of. You, however, are the ones who decided to subsidize their poverty. Stop bitching.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:04PM
"Stop bitching"? You are the one bitching about how somehow the politicians that you elected are not responsible for the poor economy in your state.
GROW UP! Take some responsibility for your actions.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:19PM
Was I? I'm pretty sure I wasn't. There's no sense in complaining that water is wet or that politicians are full of shit. Perhaps you should go back and have another read.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday December 31 2016, @03:36PM
I did go back and re-read and, yes, you are trying to place blame on politicians other than the ones you put into power. As, I said, grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your own voting record.
Quite simply, the reason Red States tend to be poor is the policies enacted by their own leaders. Policies that keep people uneducated and poor, while a few people become very rich.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 01 2017, @12:46AM
Right, so if I already said just what you said, I'm bitching but you're being informative? SMFH
My rights don't end where your fear begins.