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1 posted on 02/10/2014 9:49:13 AM PST by Kaslin
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I love the product, but the manufactureres have become such asses I’m switching - (anything but Pepsi).


2 posted on 02/10/2014 9:51:25 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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If I ever have the desire to drink a can of sugar, it’ll be a Pepsi...


3 posted on 02/10/2014 9:53:04 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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A well written article but the commercial was much more than a commercial.

It was globalist propaganda intended to undermine America and move us closer to Amerika.


4 posted on 02/10/2014 9:59:19 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Not much to be said that has not been said already.

But, just to reinforce...shove it up your collective Obamaholes, Coke.

Borders, language, culture.

Liberals evidently have none of the above.


5 posted on 02/10/2014 9:59:49 AM PST by Da Coyote
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I switched to tea. Better for you and cheaper too.

GFU Coke and Pepsi . . .go rot “Diversity’s” innards with your crap


8 posted on 02/10/2014 10:03:58 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Four dead in Benghazi")
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No more Coke Products until they apologize. I don’t drink Pepsi since they support Obama’s Logo. I will generic sodas and beer.


9 posted on 02/10/2014 10:04:35 AM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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The ad subtly undermines the idea of any core cultural commonality.

No. The ad SELLS the idea that the core cultural commonality is that there isn't one and it works anyway.

While true to a limited degree upon which they rely to sell "the program," what happens in reality is that the leftists are selling division (diversity) with which to justify more power for them to get paid for dealing with the resulting conflicts. Somehow, these "settlements" are always preferential to the leftists in charge: more government power, more prison guards, interpreters, police, judges, lawyers, clerks... you name it. NONE of those professions produces wealth, indeed, they impoverish the middle class. Hence the goal.

11 posted on 02/10/2014 10:05:58 AM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
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My wife took offense when she saw the ad. My immediate comment to her was that Coke is a global company and not a US company so why expect them to act like they are US citizens. The company and its products are not US and have not been for many years.


12 posted on 02/10/2014 10:08:13 AM PST by Raycpa
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It’s......a.......commercial.


14 posted on 02/10/2014 10:11:27 AM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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The ad subtly undermines the idea of any core cultural commonality.

There's the money shot, IMO.
18 posted on 02/10/2014 10:28:15 AM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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I have seen the ad but once. I had a visceral negative reaction to it. After some introspection, I understand why I felt as I did. America the Beautiful is about pride in America and a belief that America is exceptional in a very positive way. While the ad could be seen as expressing the thought that many different cultures view America in that way, I saw it as just more garbage from the multicultural propagandists who do not feel that way about America and who continue to spout the nonsense that “in diversity is our strength.” Diversity at least did not weaken us when immigrants assimilated well, learned English, and moved into the economic mainstream. They were then primarily American and secondarily loyal to their home countries. My mother is, and both my paternal grandparents were, typical of such immigrants. More recent immigrants do not seem to be assimilating as well, and a lack of assimilation does not strengthen us. It Balkanizes us.


20 posted on 02/10/2014 10:28:53 AM PST by p. henry
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72% of the United States is white.
were 72% of the actors white? no? then i guess they don’t want their business


24 posted on 02/10/2014 10:39:16 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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I don’t have a problem with Coke posting an add using foreign languages as long as they do it in the home country of the language they are using.
That said, This is America. We speak American. Everyone in our ciuntry needs to learn American or go home


25 posted on 02/10/2014 10:43:50 AM PST by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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We don't drink soda. Our "pop" of choice is this stuff.
26 posted on 02/10/2014 10:54:24 AM PST by Disambiguator
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27 posted on 02/10/2014 11:06:17 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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This is just the 21st century version of the huggy-wuggy I’d “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” ads Coke did in the ‘60s.

The last touchy-feely ad they got right was the Mean Joe Greene ad in the 70s.


28 posted on 02/10/2014 11:11:14 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("We are not sluts."--Sandra Fluke)
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I prefer Diet A&W root beer which is among the Dr. Pepper products. I also enjoy Diet Mug root beer but that is unfortunately a Pepsi product.


29 posted on 02/10/2014 11:18:26 AM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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No more Coca Cola products in this house, ever! Instead of Coke and Sprite it will be the Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group’s (Plano, TX) RC Cola and 7-Up.


30 posted on 02/10/2014 12:44:50 PM PST by MacNaughton
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If Coca-Cola really wanted to sell ME their products, they might think about using semi clothed, female Russian athletes and "celebrating" that kind of diversity.

As soon as I see little rug rats on my TV, singing God knows what in their gibberish - I commpletely tune out.

31 posted on 02/10/2014 12:51:22 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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The forces arguing for deeper, more divided cultural diversity are not typically flag-waving translators of America the Beautiful into native tongues . They’re not generally the people who revere and sing about pilgrims’ stern impassioned stress, thoroughfares of freedom, and America’s liberating strife.

Yes, but there *are* people who immigrate here -- or are elsewhere but dream of immigrating here -- because of the kind of liberty and opportunity that makes the USA special. People who really see this country as a beacon. And those are the people I deem to be depicted in the ad. It's true that the America-hating types (illegal alien welfare leeches, Sharia-law fans, etc.,) wouldn't be singing that song in any tongue... which is how we know it's not about them.

32 posted on 02/10/2014 1:01:32 PM PST by Sloth (Rather than a lesser Evil, I voted for Goode.)
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