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"VW was bullied and hounded into paying lip service to Gaia as a result of a sustained campaign by Greenpeace, including this nauseating commercial where little kids dressed as Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader (I hope George Lucas sued the bastards for copyright) were shown battling an evil VW with their lightsabers. (Greenpeace likes few things better than exploiting and indoctrinating kids, by the way. "Give me a child until he is seven")
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You've got to be kidding. Corporate malfeasance disguised as a blow for freedom. He's an idiot.
 
JulieW said:
"VW was bullied and hounded into paying lip service to Gaia as a result of a sustained campaign by Greenpeace, including this nauseating commercial where little kids dressed as Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader (I hope George Lucas sued the bastards for copyright) were shown battling an evil VW with their lightsabers. (Greenpeace likes few things better than exploiting and indoctrinating kids, by the way. "Give me a child until he is seven")
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You've got to be kidding. Corporate malfeasance disguised as a blow for freedom. He's an idiot.
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Just the thing for people who think they are "fighting the system" by championing illegal activities of big corporations, the billion dollar profits of VW, not to mention the tens of millions of dollars of (ex)CEO compensation and retirement benefits.

You can bet the techniques of Edward Bernays, the father of corporate propaganda, of spin and of manipulation of public opinion, the guy who termed the phrase "engineering of consent" (and who engineered the campaign for water fluoridation), will be rolled out in comings months. Maybe it will be spun as a righteous fight against tyranny, maybe as a conspiracy against VW, or as an attack by a nebulous left wing group who want to destroy jobs of hardworking citizens.

Bernays's vision was of a utopian society in which individuals' dangerous libidinal energies, the psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives that Bernays viewed as inherently dangerous given his observation of societies like the Germans under Hitler, could be harnessed and channeled by a corporate elite for economic benefit.

Bernays staged the 1929 Easter parade in New York City, showing models holding lit Lucky Strike cigarettes, or "Torches of Freedom" as he branded them, equating smoking with female emancipation.

Bernays created this event as news, which it was not. Bernays convinced industries that the news, not advertising, was the best medium to carry their message to an unsuspecting public.
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Let's read more from the "its Greenpeace's fault" article:

If we want to stand up to this tyranny, maybe the thing we should all do right now is to make sure the next car we buy is a VW. But obviously, only do this if you feel comfortable with the idea of buying a car that feels like oral sex. If the anal douche is more your kind of thing, stick with the Prius or, if you want the premium, bells-and-whistles experience, a Tesla.
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I see.... stand up against tyranny by buying a VW, it's like sex, only an anal douche would choose some other car.
 
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