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Unwrapping Burger King's whopper of a gay marketing ploy
The Daily Dot ^ | July 11, 2014 | Matt Saccaro

Posted on 07/12/2014 10:21:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Jim from C-Town

Ahhhhh....I think crazy is not a word I would use to describe them.

Let’s call it uninhibited.

Inhibitions are what guide us and prevent us from doing harmful things, to include murder, mistreatment of animals, pissing on the sidewalk...any number of things.

What I am trying to say is that without inhibitions, (cultural norms of behavior) one would appear quite crazy to one who is inhibited.

What progressives have done and are in the process of doing, is to attack religion as the source of evil as they see it, but it is also the source of many of our inhibitions. That is why they appear crazy to you.

In my own lifetime, growing up in the 50s and 60s, my generation shed many of my parents generation’s inhibitions.

Each successive generation is shedding more. Discarding them as garbage. I can agree that some of them were, but not all. Some of those inhibitions were developed over thousands of years to make sure the species survived and they have been honed and perfected since.

I am arguing that what I see happening is quite simple at it’s core and it has nothing to do with defective brains or genetics or psychopathy.

It’s a breakdown of cultural and social guidelines without which society will devolve from this point and may not survive another 100 years as we know it.

Essentially, the only way to control a society that cannot control it’s self is tyranny. It is a natural occurrence as the result of a lack of self control in the populations of the world.

So I find it significant and ironic that the “free love” and “free sex” generation that I was born into, who sought freedom as it’s mantra, is probably partly responsible for what will certainly be the total loss of it.

No, they are not crazy or unhinged. They are uninhibited and are seeking the limit of tolerance.

Eventually, they will find it. Someone will step in and reset the limits and repaint the stripes on the highway. But they will do it by force of arms or by destruction or both and freedom will be lost and not regained for a long time. Assuming the society survives..in part or at all.


41 posted on 07/13/2014 12:19:43 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Alienating a customers to attract <2% of the population plus sycophants, makes a lot of sense.


42 posted on 07/13/2014 1:00:33 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I used to eat lots of Burger King when I was in my early 20s, partially explaining why I was fat back then.

Now those fat burgers are $4-5 a piece here.(Whoppers, etc)

Only welfare recipients can afford that,

The pro-gay stuff isnt making them look any better


43 posted on 07/13/2014 1:10:12 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: sickoflibs

They have a ploy here where you get two of their select "premium" (which they constantly rotate) sandwiches for $5, which I've been taking advantage of from time-to-time. No more.

44 posted on 07/13/2014 1:15:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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RE:”They have a ploy here where you get two of their select “premium” (which they constantly rotate) sandwiches for $5, which I've been taking advantage of from time-to-time. No more.”

We get the 2 for 1 coupons in the mail which I occasionally take advantage of.

But it sure taste better to me when I as in my 20s.

45 posted on 07/13/2014 1:19:33 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: sickoflibs

During part of my twenties I worked midnight to eight as a security policeman at an Air Guard base. I consumed most or all of an eight pack of 16oz. tall boy Mountain Dews or Cokes. For awhile there I was drinking that many Jolt “All the sugar and twice the caffeine” Colas. Whew!


46 posted on 07/13/2014 1:27:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they were smart over at McDonalds, they’d introduce the Straight Mac and let regular Americans decide which one is better.


47 posted on 07/13/2014 1:37:51 AM PDT by ToastedHead
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I assume that serial killers are “the same inside”. That doesn’t justify their actions or excuse them from the consequences of those actions. Just because a killer has a spleen and I have a spleen it doesn’t mean I should have sympathy for his depravity. Furthermore, it makes killers happy to kill-just like it makes homosexual males happy to have sex with men.


48 posted on 07/13/2014 2:02:03 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (The more helpless the victim, the more hideous the assault.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When BK makes an ad that says they support straight marriage I might buy a burger from them. Doubtful, but still.


49 posted on 07/13/2014 2:45:23 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: Cold Heat

There’s a needed phone app:

Tell the app what you what causes you want to support and what causes you want to avoid.

The app will keep track of businesses on your side and those on the side you want to boycot.

It could even warn you if you’re about to go behind enemy lines.


50 posted on 07/13/2014 3:05:00 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Mmmmmmmm......microwaved lettuce and tomato!!!!! Mmmmmmm...


51 posted on 07/13/2014 3:11:22 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Stormdog
Apparently you didn’t get the “fatwa” authorizing “Anal Jihad”

Somebody just got handed a new title for a gay porn movie.

52 posted on 07/13/2014 3:22:28 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Cold Heat

Frankly, I think you give too much credit to homosexuals even putting them in the category of “just not enough social moray guidance.”

Saying there isn’t something wrong with their brain when they cram a Gerbil up their keester is not something a ‘normal’ functioning brain considers. Not even.

Whatever drives the impulse, deformity, imbalance, psychotic trauma, the thing they have in common is self-guilt and an insatiable desire to rebel and lash out. Force it (the lifestyle, their ‘rights’, etc.) down their damned throats - screw ‘society’.

Additionally, the perversion and deviancy does not achieve some equilibrium - escalation to wilder crazier things can occur....

To me, it is a disease and one that can’t be cured by marrying, homosexual couple adoptions, or ‘rainbow’ Whoppers. You know, all the things they’re fighting for while they’ve completely subverted those social morays that used to be there.


53 posted on 07/13/2014 3:22:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Jim from C-Town
BINGO! Go to a McDonalds or Burger King and DON”T buy from the specials or the dollar menu and a single person spends $8 to $10 bucks for lunch. Not a good deal for what is practically a stomach ache wrapped up in a rainbow.

It's been a long time since I've been in a BK, or a McD. For lunch, I just bring leftovers from home. On a road trip, it's cheaper to bring a small cooler with coldcuts and cheese.

54 posted on 07/13/2014 3:26:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No matter how they wrap it, the BK Lounge still processes their third world “meat” with ammonia and makes me sick.


55 posted on 07/13/2014 3:32:35 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: gitmo

2nd Vote

Is an app that is close to that


56 posted on 07/13/2014 3:41:11 AM PDT by kidd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

BKs commercials started making me feel grimy inside years ago. Decided to never buy from them again. They seemed to tone it down for a little while and now this - probably doing a K-Mart/Penney’s thing and trying to find a way to go full-blown homosexual (you can decide it it’s a pun) and still keep a viable customer base.


57 posted on 07/13/2014 4:04:38 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s great, right? Well it’s great if you’re Burger King. Now 4.3 million people (and counting) are going to have a positive image of your brand. Burger King isn’t only a fast food chain—they’re an ally They care.


Amazing and actual number versus a ‘percentage’.

Now as for me I’m looking forward to seeing what the ‘fruits’ of this advertising campaign really are for Burger King. My own personal guess is that it will be a disaster in the making if they make this a nationwide ad campaign.

How many ‘straights’ are just going to shrug their shoulders once again and say ‘see! look at me! I’m tolerant.’ As far as I can see there aren’t too many more Americans lining up anymore to buy into that.

On an anecdotal note, I was visiting a nearby city last week, the Burger King drive-through had only a couple of cars in it. The Wendy’s had a double drive-through operating at maximum capacity. My personal guess is that Wendy’s is benefiting more from Burger King’s Gay Whopper than Burger King is.


58 posted on 07/13/2014 4:35:08 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Burger King wrapped their Whoppers in condoms, it would be just about as disturbing.


59 posted on 07/13/2014 4:59:02 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I no longer eat at the Burger Queen.
This is how I chose to, “Be My Way”


60 posted on 07/13/2014 5:11:12 AM PDT by outofsalt
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