• Admiral Patrick
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    3 months ago

    Oh, wow. Other than one tongue-in-cheek meme I posted right after the Rexodus, I completely forgot HGU was a thing.

    Just think of how many hungry families could be fed with the money they’re spending on a Superb Owl ad.

    • @Chocrates@lemmy.world
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      173 months ago

      My first thought was, meh I don’t want to watch that crap but I don’t watch the superbowl so more power to them. But yeah that Billion dollars could have been used to house the unhoused or provide help to the migrants at the southern border that we are apparently getting invaded by

      :(

    • Rentlar
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      3 months ago

      Using money to feed and shelter the poor, displaced and sick like Jesus would… nah

      #HeGetSus… YEAH BABEEEE!

      • Admiral Patrick
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        103 months ago

        Oh, it’s probably the most expensive virtue signaling I’ve ever seen.

    • Cethin
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      103 months ago

      I bet more people would be Christians if Christians followed Christ.

      • themeatbridge
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        93 months ago

        No, you need to be pushy and controlling if you’re going to abuse religious faith for personal gain.

  • themeatbridge
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    It’s weird there aren’t more “He Gets Us” parodies. Like, obviously you could do one with Satan, but what about a guy who makes custom vibrators and sex toys on etsy? Or maybe the reveal is that it’s a kidnapper, and all the people are subtly asking for help, like that episode of the Twilight Zone with the psychic boy. “Sometimes, I feel like I don’t hve control over my own life, and I just want to break free. but He gets us… He always gets us.”

    • @SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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      163 months ago

      Most of the Satan-based parodies I saw were pretty bad. They used medieval woodcut style imagery with demons and such.

      I think a better and more effective style would be to mimic the ads more closely, using the same font and modern stock imagery and pithy half-sentences that are devoid of real meaning, but done with a more subversive take.

      You’d want something that they could almost pass along themselves if they didn’t read it too closely.

    • FuglyDuck
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      43 months ago

      but what about a guy who makes custom vibrators and sex toys on etsy?

      I’m gonna need a link…. You know. To, uh, make these parodies.

  • IninewCrow
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    213 months ago

    Jesus, who asked his followers to throw away all their worldly wealth, would be so happy he was being promoted by a billionaire.

  • BuckFigotstheThird
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    183 months ago

    I never had a problem with their lifestyle until they started shoving it in our faces.

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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    163 months ago

    The motivation behind the He Gets Us campaign, according to Green, is a desire to reshape public perception of Christians: “What we’re known as, as Christians, we’re known as haters,” he said in a podcast interview last year. “We’re beginning to be known as haters — we hate this group, we hate that group. But we’re not. We are people that have the very, very best love story ever written, and we need to tell that love story. So, our idea is, let’s tell the story. As a Christian, you should love everybody. Jesus loved everybody.”

    There are few things more disturbing and hateful than Christian Love.

  • @DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Jesus was a Middle Eastern Socialist Jew

    —Facts—

    How say you White Republican Christians?

  • RandoCalrandian
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    Wait… does that mean we can take out anti-religion ads?

    I mean, if you try to do that to Islam it’s a hate crime, but maybe we could get away with it targeting a paler demographic