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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby tinyrick » Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:45 pm

Deathclaw_Puncher wrote:Is this going to be a regular thing, exponentially increasing in rhetoric each time? Is the next one going to be entirely in German?


The next ad is just going to be a series of images depicting mixed race couples superimposed with the shadow of a man with hunched shoulders rubbing his hands together while a clarinet is playing in the background.
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Crimson847 » Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:00 pm

NRA TV wrote:GRANT STINCHFIELD (HOST): Our race relations are strained here in American after eight years of Barack Obama, but nowhere is near as bad as it is in South Africa where white families are being tortured and killed almost every day in racist violence. It is a warning for the United States that you will never hear from the mainstream media in this country. Veteran Army Ranger and Frontlines correspondent Chuck Holton joins me with more on this. Chuck, I know you’ve been looking into this, particularly doing some research, and really the things that we’re starting to learn are frightening and I guess it's not shocking that the mainstream media is not talking about this.

CHUCK HOLTON: Right, you know the parallels between what’s happening in South Africa and the blatant racism and violence we’re seeing from people like the Black Lives Matter crowd, from people like Louis Farrakhan and his minions, is happening in spades in South Africa. The violence against farmers is being called for by government officials, it's being celebrated by politicians, and the scary thing is, it's kind of a warning for what could happen in the United States if we continue to let this get out of control, to go down this path of this racial tension, this racial hatred that is being forced on the American culture by the Black Lives Matter crowd.


I was going to walk to the kitchen, but as Holton points out, if I just continue walking forever after that I'll walk right through the wall of my house and all the way to the Pacific where I'll drown. So I think I'll stay put.

But wait, if I keep doing that forever, then I'll starve to death. Oh man, this is a pickle. If only it was possible for a movement to end after going a certain distance...
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby sunglasses » Mon Jul 24, 2017 5:06 pm

Deathclaw_Puncher wrote:Is this going to be a regular thing, exponentially increasing in rhetoric each time? Is the next one going to be entirely in German?


No, it's going to be in kekistanian
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Absentia » Mon Jul 24, 2017 7:50 pm

Y'know, I generally support gun rights and I'm getting sick of the NRA poisoning the well with their own bullshit. I don't think race baiting and far-right hysteria is helpful to the cause of responsible gun owners.
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby sunglasses » Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:01 pm

I think the NRA left reasonable gun owners behind a long time ago.
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Grimstone » Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:10 pm

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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby skrotkanon » Tue Jul 25, 2017 5:03 am

Possibly the fact that most soldiers you see in movies are young and fit or old and grizzled. Shove a lumpy average human in that outfit and you get a camouflage-themed sack of potatoes.

EDIT: Wups, was replying to Nathans comment about how bad civilians look in combat gear, only 5 replies showed up while typing...
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:21 am

But wait, there's more!

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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby cmsellers » Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:59 am

I'm pro-gun, but as far as I'm concerned Wayne LaPierre and his flackies can go suck a loaded shotgun. He conducted a hostile takeover of the NRA, which used to be a gun-safety organization, hijacked it so he can fight laws that most Republicans and most gun owners support in the most obnoxious way possible because they're bunch of paranoid fucking assholes. It's like if Andrea Dworkin took over the League of Women Voters and used it as a vehicle to ban pornography while running ads that suggest heterosexual men are all scum.
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Aquila89 » Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:25 pm

Deathclaw_Puncher wrote:But wait, there's more!


What the hell does any of this has to do with gun rights?
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Anglerphobe » Sat Aug 05, 2017 7:32 pm

Isn't Clenched Fist of Truth a 4th level Paladin spell?
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Tesseracts » Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:09 pm

Guys, I swear she said she's going to fist the New York Times. Seriously, listen to it.
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:23 pm

What confuses me the most is the mention of a "refusal to acknowledge any truth that upsets the construct that you believe is real life". What exactly is the target here? Are they talking environmental policy? Social policy? Economic policy? Are they referring to the opinion page, and suggesting that every published opinion piece in The New York Times that's to the left of the NRA is actually #FAKENEWS and that not a single person in America actually disagrees with them because why else would Trump be President? What the fuck are they trying to say here?!
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Aquila89 » Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:46 pm

The clip was taken out of a longer video. It's about Benghazi (still? really?) and crime in Chicago.
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Re: Divisive NRA Ad

Postby Crimson847 » Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:56 pm

Apparently the NRA has a new logo:

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