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[-] [email protected] 170 points 2 months ago

If those Trump supporters could read, they'd be pretty upset.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Anybody that doesn't already realize this absolutely will not give a shit what this says anyways lol.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Canada is working on scratch and sniff ads for them

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[-] [email protected] 76 points 2 months ago

Let's see how committed they are to "Free Speech". Bets on how long until Florida or D.C. bans these ads? (They'll call it "foreign interference").

[-] bdonvr 51 points 2 months ago

They'll call it "foreign interference"

Honestly it kind of is. Though in this case I'm all for it.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

The precedent has been set. We are playing their game and these are their rules.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

The only foreign interference they can accept is israel's

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

And south african expats who south africa doesn't even want to associate with right now.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

The First Amendment is gone.

Trump is openly retaliating against people who criticized him. Our constitution isn’t worth the crumbling paper it’s written on any more.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It never was, ignoring how it enshrined slavery, the system it built relied on people acting in good faith. The idea that elected officials would always work to preserve democracy.

Now it's evident that is not an appropriate system for checks and balances.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It has good parts and had a lot of bad parts. It was written centuries ago, so let’s take that framing into consideration. It was a worthwhile endeavor to pursue the good parts while amending the bad, directly or via modern courts. Unfortunately it’s been a backsliding battle against conservatives who selectively interpret it as “originalists”, like they selectively interpret their bible to enhance their power and pocketbook and ignore the parts that are inconvenient or get between them and money, and obstinately refuse change or would actively change it for the worse.

The most ironic part is that the countries that the US fought with in WW2 that had some absolutely awful leadership and governance were outfitted with relatively excellent frameworks to govern with postwar, Germany and Japan, while the US has been crippled with resting on its laurels and mulish refusal to take the lessons learned those endeavors to heart.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

I’d do an ad that says: “We don’t pay the tariffs. You do” — Canada

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

As someone who escaped Florida a decade and a half ago: they can't read that shit.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

We need to formulate an ideogram that even Florida man can understand.

Sounds like lyrics to a Soul Coughing song. Is M. Doughty around here, somewhere?

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

They've been running fox news advertising as well.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

“At Fox News we’d bet our bottom dollar that we’d do anything to increase our bottom dollar”

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I like to imagine that the Murdoch news outlets are exchanging money for other outcomes, like spreading racism and hailing corporate.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

How long until they spend more time and effort banning this while yelling about it constantly than ever saying one bad thing about how Russia is infiltrating our country by doing almost the exact same thing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Que ‘24’ timer sound effect

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I didn't know foreign governments could buy ads in America for political purposes.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

It's the USA. Everything is for sale. From the wellbeing of your ordinary everyday citizen to the government that supposedly represents.

[-] bdonvr 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's what made it Mildly Interesting for me. I've seen a few tourism ads here and there but never something like this.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It makes me wonder if China or Russia's bought ad space

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Ad space? It looks like they bought the president

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I guess bot farms and paid trolls in social media are already doing the trick?

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

For now, sure. Why would it not be?

Maybe next week it will be punished by sending someone to a camp.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ive heard of laws limiting foreign govt propaganda. But i guess this doesn't count.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Neither does AIPAC

From there website:

WE STAND with those who stand with Israel. The AIPAC PAC is a bipartisan, pro-Israel political action committee. It is the largest pro-Israel PAC in America and contributed more resources directly to candidates than any other PAC. 98% of AIPAC-backed candidates won their general election races in 2022.”

WE ENCOURAGE the U.S. government to enact specific policies that create a strong, enduring and mutually beneficial relationship with our ally Israel.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Ha! I thought op used a highlighter to cover the screen, and one could just see through it.

But it's just the design of the machine...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Saw the same on a billboard near Hendersonville, NC. Had to look twice.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

In Ohio as well. Too bad Im convinced this state is too stupid to understand anyhow.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They should be more precise: "Trumps tariffs are a tax on your grocery bill". Anyone elses would be, too, yes, but no-one else is that stupid.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Wait until 2028 when tariffs are the moderate Democratic policy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

because Democrats insist on chasing Republicans tail as they both run further into fascist degeneracy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

too bad they didn't hire me on the marketing team. my sign for florida would have just said "fuck you".

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Mildly funny

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Americans are going to take this as a statement that Canada themselves are paying the tariffs.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Can I share this on "colorslash"? /s

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