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You see this a lot these days (though I suppose it's just more visible now). Another example is people selling political t-shirts (many offensive or obnoxious)
by anigbrowl 3y ago
You see this a lot these days (though I suppose it's just more visible now). Another example is people selling political t-shirts (many offensive or obnoxious) to both sides of a partisan divide.
- ummonk 3y agoI don’t think that’s bad unless the seller claims to be representing the causes they’re selling for.
- anigbrowl 3y agoThey do via their advertising copy, which strongly implies it. The productization of opinion is a Bad Thing in my view, for the simple reason that it becomes profitable to stoke conflict and commercial entities are therefore incentivized to do so.
- hermitdev 3y agoYou think this is bad? Wait until you see what the "news" media does!
- lotsofpulp 3y agoIn the US, I feel like I only see one side buying merchandise. Especially offensive and obnoxious merchandise.
- akira2501 3y agoA few seconds worth of work reveals how false this is. Perhaps it's just that you find one type of merchandise offensive but find the other type pleasant. Perhaps this open bias is coloring your perceptions?
- lotsofpulp 3y agoI’m mid 30s, and I don’t recall anytime other than the last 7 years in which I saw people wearing stuff that came anywhere close to “Fuck <president>”. Or chanting it at random non political sporting events with families with children in attendance. And I don’t see the other party doing anything equivalent, from giant flags on pickup trucks, to roadside merchandise stalls, to pick up truck convoys that harass and bully other candidates on the road…
- vkou 3y agoDon't forget people modding their trucks to roll coal. I guess the liberal equivalent is driving a Prius or something. Both sides, right..?
- rig666 3y agoI'm pretty certain that the other side of your political leaning would say the same thing about your party. Ask anyone about there political merchandise and they will never see it as just "merch" but as a fundamental truth that is pivotal to there way of life they they feel is being threatened. It's much like calling someone's religious garments or iconography just merchandise and is a very closed minded point of view.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoYeah nah, that's some sweet Dark Brandon merch out there. Guarantee someone's already selling some Jacked Up Joe merch already. There's always someone selling merch though, a few years back a rather famous/infamous politician in NZ, Winston Peters, came out of left field to win a by-election in the electorate of Northland that the ruling National party government expected to win easy, the same party that had snubbed his offers to work together. So people started selling "King in the North" t-shirts with ol Winnie photoshopped onto Jon Snow. I, being honest, nearly bought one, because you had to admire his schtick. So yeah, there's always merch. But, AFAIK, at least no-one is selling Joe Biden fan art NFTs yet. It's like a double grift. And obviously Trump loves the merch far more because he gets a cut.
- mr_toad 3y agoWinnie didn’t show up a few years ago, he was around in the 90’s. He’s like a comic book villain that the writers keep reincarnating.
- greggsy 3y agoElvis’ manager did this with ‘I hate elvis badges’. It’s not quite comparable though - this is deliberately deceiving a market into acquiring a service they didn’t need, which is basically racketeering.
- DoodahMan 3y agothat merch spam is so damn prevalent on Twitter right now! with hyperpartisanship and emotions so high i often wonder what the profits are like..