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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: 1, Troll) by Serial_Priest on Friday December 30 2016, @02:52PM
Keep thinking that those who disagree with you are "the darkest of evil" or "insane" and 2020 will be an even easier win for us than 2016 was. Why hate those who dissent from your orthodoxies? Be a decent person for once in your life.
(Score: 3, Touché) by linuxrocks123 on Friday December 30 2016, @07:27PM
You didn't win easily: you got lucky. Even with your luck, you only won because the votes of the people who voted for you counted more due to some anachronistic features of the system.
Think on that: you rolled a 20, and you could still only just barely win because the system was rigged in your favor. Same thing happened in 2000. The last time your party won a presidential election for real with a non-incumbent candidate was 1988.
Your support is literally dying off, and long-term demographics are against you big time. You're circling the drain; you're just at the far part of your orbit around it right now. Enjoy it while it lasts, because it won't last long.
Just try not to start a nuclear war or something for the people who will have to clean up after you, plz k thx.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @02:43AM
What the fuck? Are you completely retarded? Was it not HRC that promised to annihilate Iran and start a war with Russia?
Yes it was -- go back and check.
Was it not HRC funded by the Saudi's who deny women their rights, slaughter civilians in the Yemen and fund ISIS?
You're a complete and utter cunt eh?