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  • Seems you live in a bubble friend.

    One of the most popular kids toys are miniature brand name products that the parents buy for them…

    people by M&M’s branded leather jackets for $300 and walk around as human billboards willingly…

    people cover their cars with bumper stickers and get tattoos with logos showing their preferences between competing local coffee shops…

    Goop, celebrity-fronted baby brands, etc are “lifestyle brands” where people purchase an identity and defend it against others…

    Sports teams are corporations that people literally have bloody fist fights over…

    Target is selling a Halloween costume and kids sized shopping carts and checkout stands and their parents are buying them… For money

    What in the sweet sticky god damn FUCK are you talking about “was anyone under that illusion”?

    Dude, Donald trump is a fucking corporation that elderly people eating cat food donate their pension checks to…

    You seem to be delusional if you see NONE of that.









  • This is a huge reach and false equivalency. There is a difference between being a pop culture focus of a moment where you’re mom was compelled to volunteer at his local election office and wear a button versus the maga bullshit that OP describes.

    No. It’s never been to this level, or close for that matter. Not because a candidate didn’t want it, but because society maintained a basic level of decency and civil education that made today’s depths impossible at scale really. Of course a huge focus of the last 50 years for Republicans has been denying access to and attacking public education to help form the undereducated and easily frightened mass that they now use to support trump. And then social media feeds and predatory news algorithms were probably the nail in the coffin to break that once held floor of civility.

    Not on the same scale as trump, but there was an American Nazi party and there’s the kkk. Those are probably your closest analogies in this country.