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I didn't get this at first, but wow yeah really it says it right on the shirt

Tucker Carlson:

M&M's will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous, until the moment you wouldn't want to have a drink with any one of them. That's the goal. When you're totally turned off, we've achieved equity. They've won.

Woke M&M's have returned. The Green M&M got her boots back, but apparently is now a lesbian maybe? And there's also a plus-sized, obese Purple M&M. So we're going to cover that, of course because that's what we do.

It's a lack of purity-testing. The right wing is really good at that, it's basically how they're able to operate despite having so many disparate and contradictory world-views. I think the left should get better at it.

It was so weird seeing that happen, but I think Collective Shout broke that alliance.

Because they love racism.

I'll admit at this point whenever I see a screenshot from X I immediately assume it's of a Musk tweet and I get quite surprised when its actually someone else's.

Either racism/Nazism or network effect. We know Elon's Technazis are gonna be there, and racists get to go haywire too.

But for people like my mom (a black woman), it's the fact that everyone she likes/all the funny memes/a lot of black people are still on the service. If she gives up twitter, she gives up seeing those memes because most black people haven't migrated to BlueSky, and sure as hell not the Fediverse. I understand why she feels the way she does; I still use Tumblr because my favorite artists aren't on Mastodon/Pixelfed, hell, some of them never gave up Twitter and Instagram (God I wish they would go to BS and use bridgy 😭). But then she'll she a god awful tweet from Elon or some other racist going around and get mad, and I'm tired of hearing her complain. And then I always tell her, "why are you surprised, you're on Twitter. Just leave," but then I get the network effect issue.

Yeah, I could have picked three random ads with white people a couple years ago too.... It'd be different if they had, like, numbers showing more ads were using just white people or something than before.

EDIT: This applies to both comments BTW

a couple of points:

• i think calling it a "hint" or dog whistle etc is severe overstatement of the subtlety in which the message is delivered. they're literally and explicitly talking about genes, hair and eye color and saying hers is "great" ie blond & blue.

• i don't know why no one points to the actual bad part which is them saying genes determine personality, which is straight up eugenicist bullshit

from the NPR article you shared:

In the view of one advertising expert, the social media backlash is part of the point. The nature of the ads are one of the few ways companies can break through the noise in this day and age, Allen Adamson, co-founder of brand marketing firm Metaforce, told Morning Edition.

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The Sweeney-centric campaign "was a company figuring out how to break through in a world where everyone is screaming and saying, 'Look at me, look at me!" Adamson said.

I didn't watch the ad until you linked to it. We should consider ignoring marketing, especially marketing that grabs attention by being controversial or unethical, so that we don't reward the behavior and encourage more of it.

a single ultra light-skinned freckled black woman with a super bouncy afro

Ah, you mean the one black friend in the group of pretty white women?

Is this passing so well you accidentally become a conservative icon 😔

Did anyone think otherwise..?