I assume it failed given it is being made fun of?

what an odd ad .3.

I'm man enough to know that ad is cringe 😆

So the return of "people should vote for me because I'm a woman" approach.

https://youtu.be/vqYJRc0TJkQ?feature=shared
[For reference]

Oh god! I only saw part of it at first...

I didn't know it kept going!

Holy fuck, this is even more cringe than Hillary's "Pokemon GO to the polls!" thing.

Do the Democrats not know what "optics" are?

They have all that money and all those lobby groups and massive support by the likes of Google and Microsoft and HOLLYWOOD and the rest of the big-business establishment, and not a single freaking person said "Ahhh... This is kinda cringe guys, maybe we should rework it a bit?"

My god, this just shows how truly out of touch they are... Like they've never been around real people, let alone men, and get all their information from biased "terminally online" social media users.

I.. I forgot about that Pokemon GO to the polls.... @_@

I didn't click the link. ALL political ads are super cringe to me.

I remember some time ago there was an ad telling women to "vote with their lady parts"

Maybe people should go back to thinking with their brains instead of their genitals.
( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )

I'm forced to believe far too many voters do not possess a working 'Brain-Housing-Group.'

They vote accordingly.

That should, no, MUST be addressed, and dealt with, else the over-breeding Village Idiots will continue to cause damage and threat to any Country/Nation and Society they infest.

(Bit cruel word usage? I refuse to apologize.)

As a Woman (Natural plumbing, tyvm), I didn't see a single 'Man' in that utterly insulting and abhorrent 'Ad.'
It's in the 'Top 3' of 'Their' totally warped, maligned, twisted and so obviously 'Staged/Fake' attempts to lure whatever's left of America's Fools to their cause/side.
I'd laugh and mock it, accept I have no doubt it achieved their goal, and that sad, sad fact goes so far in explaining exactly why and how our nation and society has collapsed to the degree it's suffering atm.

Meanwhile, I watched 'Deadpool and Wolverine,' and had the time of my life!

Real Men.

Faux Men.

Know the difference.

;-P

In my opinion, political ads are like car insurance ads. Every car insurance company has almost identical deals and prices because they all have to work with the same laws and regulations. So they have to rely on some kind of gimmick that makes people remember their specific company over their competence. That's why car insurance commercials always have some kind of unusual character, cavemen, animated lizards with a foreign accent, or an awkward woman spokesperson, all with some kind of recurring narrative or backstory that has little to do with cars. Because the point is not convincing people to buy (insurance is mandatory, so everyone HAS to buy) the point is at the time of buying, people remember their brand name over others.

Politics are pretty much the same. All the options suck, but people have to vote for someone. That's why for the last few decades all politicians have some short slogan or catchphrase. The platform is irrelevant, it's all about being the one with the catchiest one-liner. Maybe they make horribly cringe ads on purpose because they become viral memes. ( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )

Here's a cruel fact I learned many years ago, surprisingly enough (?), from SHOE stores. Remember Kinny/Foot-Locker/et all? HUGE Companies like 'Woolworth?' What most may never have known is, they all had 'Roots' that spread across entire 'Names', yet were owned by 'One.' Meaning, by opening/creating faux 'Competitors' (For whatever reason), no matter what individual stores sold, at whatever 'Sale price' listed, all that $$$ was going into one pocket.

I see this now, decades later, in what's referred to as 'Global Economies.' Who owns said Corporations? It's not very hard to find out, and it's staggering.

Same with politicians. I view Democrats and Republican as one wing of the same 'Bird'- Congress.

What has been the collective opinion of how Congress has been doing, over the past seventy-plus years?

The more you know, eh?

(The more I need alcohol to remedy the side effects of said knowledge!)

Was originally going to look at the gallery, but read this journal post instead.

Nice to see another common sense loving more or less balanced person on this site, respect.

yeah, back in the day, the Furry Fandom was really open and welcoming. Today is a sad shadow of its former self.

Warning: wordy!

I'd agree for more than 50% but less than 100. Openness is not inherently a good thing (most things in this world are not inherently good or bad). Openness can also mean no standards or no real identity. Would you accept in your Football Fan Club people who don't even play or like football? Would you let in real football fans, but who also rob people at night? For better or for worse, no club can be open for everyone (that just means the club owner has no standards).

Mmm, what i mean is you could be yourself. To look at one of your examples, I don't actually watch Football, nor really know much about the sport at all. My roommate has some friends that are quite... obsessed. I can join them on some game, and they would be welcoming and let me be myself. Ask my questions or express confusion about the rules I don't understand nor may even know exist. They remain friendly, not confrontational. The Furry Fandom no longer has that aspect if you have wrong think.

Cannot argue with any of that, all correct points. Not what I was saying, but still correct.

Perhaps all of this is inevitable. As the idea of a "furry can club" becomes bigger and more accepted by the wider society, it will then become a bigger part of that society........... and if that society divides for any reason, so will the furry fan club. It's not really tragic though, since the majority of "furries" are actually level headed and emotionally stable people, you just don't hear about them, because most furries are actually shy and afraid to call themselves by the F word. Things are actually quite alright.