[News] Debbie Spend-It-Now

[Charlie Don't Surf]

www.debbiespenditnow.com
This is a thing that aired during the Superbowl, here in America, for an election to actual, real political office for someone that will make decisions of how to do things for hundreds of millions of people.

 

[PatrThom]

Yeswe'veheardofher.

--Patrick

 

[Ravenpoe]

Wow... That's some fine racism right there.

 

[Dave]

I totally missed this. Interesting but in the end it's a publicity stunt that will do nothing.

 

[Tress]

Why win over voters with ideas and charm when you can just make vague implications of an enemy takeover and racist stereotypes?

 

[Ravenpoe]

Why win over voters with ideas and charm when you can just make vague implications of an enemy takeover and racist stereotypes?

Is China viewed by people as an enemy? I always thought they were our ally.

 

[DarkAudit]

Is China viewed by people as an enemy? I always thought they were our ally.

To people of a certain age, they were, are, and always will be an enemy. They haven't been allies of any sort since WW II.

 

[AshburnerX]

A lot of people see the Chinese as economic enemies, if not military enemies. It's been hard for some communities to deal with losing their businesses to China and it's a lot easier for members of the Right to blame foreigners than it is to blame the Free Market. It's one of the reasons the "Made in America" label is making a comeback.

 

[Hailey Knight]

www.debbiespenditnow.com
This is a thing that aired during the Superbowl, here in America, for an election to actual, real political office for someone that will make decisions of how to do things for hundreds of millions of people.

I appreciate you laying it out as real, because this is the kind of site I'd expect Pierce to have on Community.

 

[Gared]

A lot of people see the Chinese as economic enemies, if not military enemies. It's been hard for some communities to deal with losing their businesses to China and it's a lot easier for members of the Right to blame foreigners than it is to blame the Free Market. It's one of the reasons the "Made in America" label is making a comeback.

Now if only we could actually get some of those label making jobs back in America. I kid, I kid (mostly).

 

[Krisken]

Wait, is that real?

 

[Tress]

Wait, is that real?

Sadly, yes.

 

[Krisken]

That's disappointing.

 

[Espy]

That's disappointing.

And depressing! Just when you thought American politics couldn't get dumber...

 

[Gared]

American politics can always get dumber.

 

[phil]

American politics can always get dumber.

One time I saw American politics post on Facebook that they were going too the store. I was all like "hey man, it's to, not too," to which it replied "its all the same, your a idiot"

fuckin' politics, man.

 

[Balkoth]

politics can always get dumber.

fixed that for you

 

[Terrik]

Hey, they're using traditional form of 钱·. This is clearly aimed at Taiwan, and not China. I'm looking at you Bhamv.

Also, this is incredibly stupid.

 

[Wahad]

I followed a course on International Relations of China last year and this topic (China as an economic power taking over the US via debt owed) came up. This was the video we were shown:



Not sure if these guys are behind the above site but I think they'd support it at least.

 

[bhamv3]

Hey, they're using traditional form of 钱·. This is clearly aimed at Taiwan, and not China. I'm looking at you Bhamv.

Also, this is incredibly stupid.

DAMMIT! The cat's out of the bag now, it's the Taiwanese and not the Chinese who are going to take over the world. Thanks a lot, Debbie whoeveryouare.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Reminder that this was not made by The Onion.

 

[Tress]

This all reminds me of the panic about Japan taking over the US economy back in the 80's/early 90's.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Is China viewed by people as an enemy? I always thought they were our ally.

Then there is the whole 60 year old state of war between our two nations.

 

[Tress]

Okay, that's overstating it a bit much.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Then there was that thing in 1989 that never happened.

We've been political rivals for a long time. And we were in armed conflict with China 60 years ago. Just recently with the continued push to send American Jobs and Factories to China that they have started to become economic rivals.

However, this ad is quite a jaw dropping piece of racist paranoia.

 

[SpecialKO]

Reminder that this was not made by The Onion.

It really is the kind of thing you'd expect to see on Literally Unbelievable.

 

[Terrik]

Then there was that thing in 1989 that never happened.

We've been political rivals for a long time. And we were in armed conflict with China 60 years ago. Just recently with the continued push to send American Jobs and Factories to China that they have started to become economic rivals.

However, this ad is quite a jaw dropping piece of racist paranoia.

Oddly enough most China-American relations analysts concede there are no real major ideological differences between the two.

 

[Krisken]

They both display racist paranoia?

 

[Terrik]

Works for me.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Sure, USA and China have long been rivals, but I always saw it as being because they're the two biggest dudes around. They have a grudging respect despite different views on how shit should go down, but when aliens invade they'd totally go back to back in an awesome kung fu battle.*


*I should point out that the only things I know about China, I learned from wuxia movies.

 

[Terrik]

Worked for Firefly, didn't it?

 

[sixpackshaker]

It really is the kind of thing you'd expect to see on Literally Unbelievable.

dammit, I just spent an hour rolling through several pages....

 

[Fun Size]

Worst part: I'm in Michigan, and have seen this posted to Facebook with a "He's got my vote.\Totally nailed it.\What's the big deal?" type comments.

As I put it, it must have been disappointing to the director that he couldn't find a buck-toothed guy with a pony tail and Fu Man Chu mustache who would wear one of those cone hats. Relying on subtle racism is such a pain.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

There was nothing subtle about that!

 

[Fun Size]

I was being sarcastic.

But to the people who support this, they believe it's subtle enough to claim that it's not racist, which to me just kind of spells out how racist they actually are.