I haven't seen the ad but, from what you've said:
- Nuclear family
- Heterosexual
- The child isn't a daughter
- The boy is being gifted a male toy
- Explicit mention of Christmas?
Maybe it's a tiny bit of role subversion, but I'd say more positive than negative when you compare to the rest of the "Holiday" advertising landscape.
What race was each member of the family?
Woodrow Wilson had the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments
Not going to defend Wilson, but the President has fuck all to do with amending the constitution. Making promises/threats about unrelated legislation and giving speeches is about it.
Also the 16th was ratified before he took office.
appointed the first female Supreme Court justice for political points and set the standard for DEI justices
True. But to be fair, O'Connor had a pretty respectable voting record. Would easily take her over any of the male liberal retards on the court today.
It does matter. Not for saying the victim deserves it. Not for saying the perpetrator should be walking free or anything like that.
It matters because way too many of these retards think being an "ally" makes them immune to the consequences of what they support. They think because they fed the wildlife, it's their friend now. "The victim supported X," stuff is important because the people who support X need to be reminded as many times as it takes them to understand that their pet causes on social media won't hesitate to murder them for fun. Who knows, might actually keep one of them from relaxing. It's a preventative and educational measure more than it is gloating.
This. A "free market" now that all the monopolies and duopolies are established is just a corporatocracy. Capitalism with incentives for competition and innovation would be the ideal. A true "free market" wouldn't involve lobbying for regulatory capture to drive your competitors bankrupt with lawfare.
Why companies are willing to pay billions of dollars on something that, as for the foreseeable future, doesn't seem profitable?
There's some truth in all the data being valuable but the bigger driver is less interesting. Companies have FOMO. They saw what happened to companies that didn't adopt the Internet early, didn't adopt streaming early, thought social media was a fad, thought cloud wouldn't take off. And the hype around AI is bigger than any of those were at the onset.
They're willing to burn money now because they all want to be near the top when the money starts drying up and the bottom 95% of the field start die off or are ripe for acquisition. They think if they just spend harder, when everything settles, they'll be Amazon instead of pets.com.
And it's where the VC money is right now. AI is the new "blockchain." Slap the word "AI" on your product and get money from people with more money than sense because at least some of these AI companies will make it huge, right?
and her instant attraction and love for the creature is weird
Instead of thinking about what makes sense, think about the behaviors we observe women exhibiting.
If weird fishmen and monsters showed up, women would demand we give them free healthcare and be waving "creatures welcome" signs.
All of the above. He was a well meaning boomer who thought he was an outsider while the yes-men wrangled him as a tool of the establishment.
Now, in 2025, the question is if he's too oblivious to have noticed or we've moved on to C.
There is a credential shortage. And because they're too cheap to train Americans, they'll settle for fraudulent ones which are abundant in foreign labor.
They'll compare the headcount of unemployed Americans with legit CDLs to how many illegals can get one signed by their cousin's "school." Then claim there's a skill gap. This lie works because credentials are the only way we analyze "skills" at large population scale.
MAGA is a vague slogan that works on people who are dissatisfied with America's cultural decline, overreliance on foreign goods, and other self-destructive policies. Some people who bought in thought it would mean revitalizing dying factory towns. Some people who bought in thought it would mean we'd go back to Leave It To Beaver social dynamics. That's why it worked well as a slogan: it correctly identifies the general problem but leaves it up to the voter to head-canon what "Great" is.
Voters who would call themselves MAGA today could be either or even something orthogonal. Trump's inner circle and the influencer sphere are a very different beast. Like you say, they were fully on the economic zone side or self-serving side of things from the start.
MAGA can't be divided because all it ever was is a loose collation of people who only really agreed on what NOT to do. They were never going to agree on what to do once the massive immediate threat like a Hillary, Biden, or Harris presidency was defeated. Anyone pretending it was more is trying to piggyback it into a personal following.
Devil's advocate: Freaks buying bad games with Tumblr art is probably a decent amount of money when you're taking 30% of the indie/blogger self-fellatio machine's revenue. Storefronts are different than being a dev or publisher. If you're a game studio and you try to appeal to the 0.05% at the cost of 30%+ of your audience, you're retarded. If you're Steam or Kickstarter though? You're really not going to lose anyone over ads, but you will win over the spergs who clap when they see themselves "represented." Consider that Valve probably made about $1m by hosting just Gone Home on their storefront.
BUT it only works as long as you don't cave to them on any sort of actual policy because then they will drive your company into the ground by alienating your majority customers.
I'm sure the NLG was very vocal about the compulsory vaccines, right? Right?