Target is stupid
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And black paralyzed Santa…
@LuFins-Dad said in Target is stupid:
And black paralyzed Santa…
Let's just hope they don't make Jesus dark-skinned. That would be a step too far.
He's the son of God. And God is reptilian.
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@89th said in Target is stupid:
To be fair, the fact that the product was called a Gay Nutlicker was a little redundant.
Not so.
- It’s Gay Nutcracker, not Gay Nutlicker
- Even if it’s Gay Nutlicker, the licker may be licking nuts under duress and therefore not gay in the happy sense.
- Even if it’s Gay Nutlicker, the licker may be some one other than a human male and therefore not gay in the sexual orientation sense.
- Even if it’s Gay Nutlicker, the nut (the object of licking) may be a food, a fastener, or an ideologue (e.g., “wing nut”) and therefore the word “gay” would be needed to describe the licker’s state of mind and/or orientation.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Target is stupid:
Here we go again…
https://www.newsweek.com/target-lgbtq-nutcracker-christmas-ornament-backlash-1844637
Here's a Christmas present for people who don't want the gay nutcracker. A hetero cracker, who's also a nut!
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Look up tempest in a teapot. I suspect you will find a link to the Target article.
Lord, I am tired of outrage over the trivial.
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil
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Speaking of things that nobody gives a shit about, I strongly object to the implication that Saint Patrick was Irish. The only reason he was green was from sea-sickness crossing the Irish Sea, probably from Lancashire, which is where all the best people are from.
Every freaking year.
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Speaking of things that nobody gives a shit about, I strongly object to the implication that Saint Patrick was Irish. The only reason he was green was from sea-sickness crossing the Irish Sea, probably from Lancashire, which is where all the best people are from.
Every freaking year.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Target is stupid:
Speaking of things that nobody gives a shit about, I strongly object to the implication that Saint Patrick was Irish. The only reason he was green was from sea-sickness crossing the Irish Sea.
Every freaking year.
And what about Palladius?
See you're Irish now, you need to know these things.
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Look up tempest in a teapot. I suspect you will find a link to the Target article.
Lord, I am tired of outrage over the trivial.
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Some people don't see the obvious, until they get hit between the eyes with a 2x4. I've seen it in relationships, money and now, the degradation of society.
And if y'all don't think this is all a slippery slope and a defining of deviance downward until it contributes mightily to the eventual downfall of American society, you're either of the groups trying to reformulate society for the worse or you're dumber than a bag of hammers.
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Some people don't see the obvious, until they get hit between the eyes with a 2x4. I've seen it in relationships, money and now, the degradation of society.
And if y'all don't think this is all a slippery slope and a defining of deviance downward until it contributes mightily to the eventual downfall of American society, you're either of the groups trying to reformulate society for the worse or you're dumber than a bag of hammers.
@Jolly said in Target is stupid:
Some people don't see the obvious, until they get hit between the eyes with a 2x4. I've seen it in relationships, money and now, the degradation of society.
And if y'all don't think this is all a slippery slope and a defining of deviance downward until it contributes mightily to the eventual downfall of American society, you're either of the groups trying to reformulate society for the worse or you're dumber than a bag of hammers.
Country-wide store closures from rampant thefts. Carjackings and fatal assaults in downtown areas. Police assaults. Assaults on police. Cancel-culture kangaroo courts. Political hacks. And now, rampant anti-semitism that Godwin's Law can't even temper because Hamas is actually worse and nobody cares.
But hey. We have guy bikinis now.
Great job, liberals!
I really don't see how you can possibly argue "yes there's bad on both sides" anymore. The tiki-torch whites have no agency. Meanwhile, the wokes are laying blame on whites for keeping us bound in the fifties while they're doing everything possible to bring us back to 1938.
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I don't think gay nutcrackers have anything to do with Hamas or people robbing stores. I think we need to tackle the problems that are actually important. Recognizing that there are perfectly decent gay people who may or may not want to buy a nutcracker with a rainbow on it has nothing to do with this.
And describing anybody who isn't a heterosexual as some kind of pervert is just plain fucking dumb.
People who rob stores should be prosecuted. People who kill children should be eradicated. You're not going to do either of these things whining about a gay nutcracker. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Incidentally, gay people I know think the rainbow capitalism like this is a rather stupid and cynical marketing ploy. It's got nothing to do with gay rights
I was only joking
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@LuFins-Dad said in Target is stupid:
Here we go again…
https://www.newsweek.com/target-lgbtq-nutcracker-christmas-ornament-backlash-1844637
PREPARE THE FAINTING COUCHES! THERE'S A NUTRACKER WITH A RAINBOW ON IT!
@Doctor-Phibes said in Target is stupid:
@LuFins-Dad said in Target is stupid:
Here we go again…
https://www.newsweek.com/target-lgbtq-nutcracker-christmas-ornament-backlash-1844637
PREPARE THE FAINTING COUCHES! THERE'S A NUTRACKER WITH A RAINBOW ON IT!
Wait until they discover that Tchaikovsky was homosexual. They’ll need more than a fainting couch.
Elbows up!
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Target is stupid:
@LuFins-Dad said in Target is stupid:
Here we go again…
https://www.newsweek.com/target-lgbtq-nutcracker-christmas-ornament-backlash-1844637
PREPARE THE FAINTING COUCHES! THERE'S A NUTRACKER WITH A RAINBOW ON IT!
Wait until they discover that Tchaikovsky was homosexual. They’ll need more than a fainting couch.
@Renauda said in Target is stupid:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Target is stupid:
@LuFins-Dad said in Target is stupid:
Here we go again…
https://www.newsweek.com/target-lgbtq-nutcracker-christmas-ornament-backlash-1844637
PREPARE THE FAINTING COUCHES! THERE'S A NUTRACKER WITH A RAINBOW ON IT!
Wait until they discover that Tchaikovsky was homosexual. They’ll need more than a fainting couch.
Well, first they'll need to Google Tchaikovsky. Then they'll be horrified that Target is selling this type of un-American product. As we all know, Christmas was invented by heterosexual white conservatives who were present at the birth of Jesus, and presented him with American made nutcrackers containing Frank's incense, which is a type of cologne worn by large, hairy men with moustaches who wrestle, but not in a gay way.
OK, I think I may have gone off on a bit of a tangent.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Target is stupid:
@LuFins-Dad said in Target is stupid:
Here we go again…
https://www.newsweek.com/target-lgbtq-nutcracker-christmas-ornament-backlash-1844637
PREPARE THE FAINTING COUCHES! THERE'S A NUTRACKER WITH A RAINBOW ON IT!
Wait until they discover that Tchaikovsky was homosexual. They’ll need more than a fainting couch.
@Renauda said in Target is stupid:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Target is stupid:
@LuFins-Dad said in Target is stupid:
Here we go again…
https://www.newsweek.com/target-lgbtq-nutcracker-christmas-ornament-backlash-1844637
PREPARE THE FAINTING COUCHES! THERE'S A NUTRACKER WITH A RAINBOW ON IT!
Wait until they discover that Tchaikovsky was homosexual. They’ll need more than a fainting couch.
Impossible. He was Russian and they just don’t go for that.
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I always thought nutcrackers were gay, anyway. I mean, they want you you to put your nuts in their mouth…
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I don't know whether rainbows are really gay, but they're certainly on the spectrum.
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I don't think gay nutcrackers have anything to do with Hamas or people robbing stores. I think we need to tackle the problems that are actually important. Recognizing that there are perfectly decent gay people who may or may not want to buy a nutcracker with a rainbow on it has nothing to do with this.
And describing anybody who isn't a heterosexual as some kind of pervert is just plain fucking dumb.
People who rob stores should be prosecuted. People who kill children should be eradicated. You're not going to do either of these things whining about a gay nutcracker. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Incidentally, gay people I know think the rainbow capitalism like this is a rather stupid and cynical marketing ploy. It's got nothing to do with gay rights
@Doctor-Phibes said in Target is stupid:
People who rob stores should be prosecuted. People who kill children should be eradicated. You're not going to do either of these things whining about a gay nutcracker. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
The point is, it's woke politics that exacerbates the issue. Saying gay customers should be accommodated for—or just actually doing it—is one thing. Wanna push as many people as possible away from the result you're hoping for? Make the issue radical. Call those who disagree with you a bigot and a Nazi. If you don't like how they voice their opinions, call their very speech violence. That's a great way to give the gay community as many enemies as possible.
Go ahead and pretend woke politics doesn't exist and try to tackle these issues in a vacuum if you like, it's not going to work. I think we should just look at these issues in a common-sense way, too, but the woke innovation of weaponizing politics to this degree has effectively destroyed that.
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It would work much better if they gave equal time to Palestinians.
They have a different view of gay devotees, but it deserves the DEI that would be given to any other community.
The government used to require this type of fairness.
The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.
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it’s a nutcracker. A nutcracker isn’t gay, it isn’t straight, it’s a nutcracker. Why does it need to be anything else? Why does it even need to be sexualized?
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It’s also a themed toy for a specific holiday to celebrate a specific individual that happened to teach forgiveness of sin, but he also specifically said “Go and sin no more”. So maybe just maybe we shouldn’t promote sin as a part of the holiday to celebrate this individual?
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Target’s sales have been sucking. They got even worse when they fully embraced the Pride stuff. Maybe this isn’t the wisest time to double down? Especially coming into the busiest retail season which is based on celebrating a guy that said “Go, and have gay sex no more”? I might be paraphrasing….
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In all honesty I don’t really understand the connection between the nutcracker and baby Jesus. However, speaking of sin, maybe somebody needs to tell the fat bastard in the red suit about gluttony. Just how many mince pies does one disabled black guy need?
One could write an interesting essay on how modern Christmas has far more in common with promoting pretty much all of the 7 Deadly Sins than it ever does with some poor Jewish kid born in a stable.
