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Whew, that USMC rainbow bullets photo is terrible.

Like, really really bad.

I realized this was posted prior to the Q shooting and 6 years after Pulse, but that's where my brain goes immediately. It's awful.

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It's one of those things that I had to double and triple check to make sure that it was, in fact, real.

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Extra-fun detail about the gay Listerine's usage of the original meanings of the stripes on the Pride flag is that they seem to have juggled them around a bit to avoid putting "SEX" on the mouthwash (because they are cowards)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBT)

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Release the sex cut, Listerine!!!

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I still can’t get over how terrible that Pepsi commercial is. A lot of people have to be either really disconnected from the reality of power dynamics or invested in atrociously bad propaganda. Maybe both?

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I think I've decided that it was a brilliant, surreal art project. Next level anti-corporate geniuses playing the long game of founding an ad agency, getting the Pepsi account and then just going for it.

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Live, laugh, love on stolen land

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One of the most popular places to live, laugh and love.

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Yes - I'm pretty sure that, although wokeness is on the decline, Washington state still considers itself Woker Than Thou.

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Good stuff 😂

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thanks!

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In this time of craziness (but isn't it always that time?) a little pointed levity was welcome! Thanks!

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Doing my best to help out!

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One of your best, Garrett. Literal LOLs.

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Oh thanks. It was a lot of fun to write.

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