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posted by on Friday December 30 2016, @09:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the will-provide-tattoos-for-right-applicant dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:39AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:39AM (#447817) Homepage Journal

    Lemme splain. No, is too much, lemme sum up.

    Libertarians are opposed to theft. Charity is a fine thing but charity is voluntary. Robbing citizens at gunpoint and giving what they have earned to someone else is not charity; it is organized crime wherein the criminals are the ones receiving the money and their lower ranked thugs are the ones collecting it.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:17PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:17PM (#447901) Homepage Journal

    That is one thing I disagree with the LP about. Nobody's going to volunteer to pay for roads, schools, enactment and enforcement of laws. You're not being robbed at gunpoint, you're paying the price of the civilization you enjoy living in.

    It's not a robbery, it's a moral, ethical, and legal transaction. And you're probably not, but I'm a Christian, and Christ said "pay your taxes" (in a colorful way).

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 01 2017, @12:45AM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday January 01 2017, @12:45AM (#447994) Homepage Journal

      Believe it or not, it IS possible to fund a government without holding death or imprisonment over people's heads.

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      • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday January 01 2017, @03:23AM

        by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday January 01 2017, @03:23AM (#448027) Homepage Journal

        Pay what you owe, it's that simple.

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        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:17AM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:17AM (#448092) Homepage Journal

          I don't owe. Neither do you. That's the entire point. When someone comes up unasked and smears your windshield with grease and newsprint at a stoplight, you do not owe them for "cleaning" your windshield. Ditto the government's sad attempts at services.

          The government is quite capable of funding itself without perpetrating extortion upon its citizens. That it chooses not to does not obligate those being stolen from to feel the need to assist in the theft.

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          • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday January 04 2017, @10:12PM

            by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Wednesday January 04 2017, @10:12PM (#449559) Homepage Journal

            Yes, you do. You cast a vote for someone to represent you, and if you don't like their laws, you vote against them. This isn't North Korea; if it were, I'd agree with you.

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            • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 04 2017, @11:26PM

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday January 04 2017, @11:26PM (#449583) Homepage Journal

              Your fellow citizens voting to steal what is yours at threat of death or imprisonment is no more legitimate than stealing it themselves; it's simply organized crime instead of disorganized. That you refuse to see this tells me you're one of the thieves.

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