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Happy-Face Totalitarian Commercials
The Atlas Society ^ | Edward Hudgins

Posted on 02/16/2010 7:43:53 AM PST by Commonsensecommonman

February 10, 2010 — Three recent TV ads get our attention with totalitarianism. They do so to different degrees and in different ways. And they certainly are barometers of the shift in the popular culture in this once-free country.

Green Police

The first was the “Green Police” advertisement for Audi that was broadcast during this year’s Super Bowl. It starts with a clerk asking a customer that standard question, “Paper or plastic?” When the customer answers the latter, Green Police swoop in and cuff him with the words, “You picked the wrong day to mess with the eco-system.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climate; commercials; greenieweenies; greenpolice; indoctrination; nationofsheep; police; pravdamedia; thegreenmenace; totalitarianism; tvisadrug
The Smart Balance/Denmark ad was very weird. When government controls your personal food intake, it's a good thing?
1 posted on 02/16/2010 7:43:53 AM PST by Commonsensecommonman
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To: Commonsensecommonman

Liberals are sick puppies.


2 posted on 02/16/2010 7:54:21 AM PST by GOPJ (Nobody likes to be lectured by those claiming superior wisdom but lacking common sense - - Hanson)
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To: Commonsensecommonman

That’s how it will have to be done here in the good old USA.


3 posted on 02/16/2010 8:20:47 AM PST by J40000
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That Audi commercial was enough to turn me off on ever even considering an Audi.


4 posted on 02/16/2010 8:42:02 AM PST by DCBurgess58 (In a Capitalist society, men exploit other men. In a Communist society it's exactly the opposite.)
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It seems the government has a pretty good grip on food intake as it is, but it has very little control of the quantity of intake.
5 posted on 02/16/2010 8:49:58 AM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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