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I was wondering if the new ad campaign would stir controversy.

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Looks like it has.
 
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It's kinda funny because I used to point out what looks like a serpent's eye in the taco bell logo, now they and many others are just putting this kind of stuff out in the open to mock conspiracy theorists and turn it all into a joke


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There's enough of this stuff in popular media that I don't think it's a coincidence
 
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In my opinion, I think it was a poor choice for use as an ad campaign on Taco Bell's part. No different than K-Mart's use of the "Ship my pants" commercials. Controversy(at the expense of a conservative minority) brings greater attention to their company/product(s) with less cost. In commercialism, this means greater profit. As long as they're reaping in huge profits from it, it doesn't matter if one or more smaller groups are marginalized.
 
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Controversy(at the expense of a conservative minority) brings greater attention to their company/product(s) with less cost.
The conspiracy-theory crowd isn't limited to those of the conservative persuasion...and this ad is so obviously targeted at them it's good for a healthy chuckle.
 
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In my opinion, I think it was a poor choice for use as an ad campaign on Taco Bell's part. No different than K-Mart's use of the "Ship my pants" commercials. Controversy(at the expense of a conservative minority) brings greater attention to their company/product(s) with less cost. In commercialism, this means greater profit. As long as they're reaping in huge profits from it, it doesn't matter if one or more smaller groups are marginalized.

You're worried about the Illuminati being marginalised?
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The conspiracy-theory crowd isn't limited to those of the conservative persuasion...and this ad is so obviously targeted at them it's good for a healthy chuckle.

Indeed, I don't see any reason to associate the conspiracy theory folks with conservatism at all. But I agree that this Taco Bell ad campaign is hilarious. And well-done too.
 
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It's kinda funny because I used to point out what looks like a serpent's eye in the taco bell logo, now they and many others are just putting this kind of stuff out in the open to mock conspiracy theorists and turn it all into a joke


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There's enough of this stuff in popular media that I don't think it's a coincidence

The illuminati is definitely real!
They do subliminal's all the time.
I'm glad it's getting into the mainstream and getting people excited over the subject! It makes people want to do research!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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The illuminati is definitely real!
They do subliminal's all the time.
I'm glad it's getting into the mainstream and getting people excited over the subject! It makes people want to do research!!!!!!!!!!!

Exactly.

This is a textbook case of hiding things in plain sight, using public incredulity to substantiate the veil. It is meant to be a slap in the face of people who know about these things, because on one hand we know the group is powerful and damaging, but on the other hand no one will believe the truth of it all. They cant.

And, it isn't totally their fault; someone has to be an agent of the incredulous lot in order to later have the set-up, predictive experience of saying, "Why didn't anyone warn us?" - only to realize the "crazies picketing were right all along." This is a repetitive game exploiting the psychosis (Stockholm Syndrome), gullibility, programmable potential, complacency and ignorance of a population. We read history today, and admonish the people of the past who are doing the exact same thing as the agents of incredulity do today. Again, they must do it.

Although, the illuminaughty is the WEAKEST and YOUNGEST of alleged "powers that be." There are much more insidious and powerful "occult" groups controlling the world; many more people pay homage to them without knowledge because they don't even believe they are part of a nefarious, very old order.

The commercial works famously to keep the veil thick and opaque.
 
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The illuminati is definitely real!
They do subliminal's all the time.
I'm glad it's getting into the mainstream and getting people excited over the subject! It makes people want to do research!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree that the "Illuminati" (or the idea of it, what they actually call themselves or what we call them doesn't really matter) is real as well. I obviously don't know how far it extends or exactly how much of what we experience daily is a product of them, but I think there's a basic agenda from the people who run this world to steer everyone away from Christ. The easiest place to notice blasphemy and anti-Christ agenda imo is modern music and music videos. I think most of the elite and rulers of this world are mixed up in mystery religion and/or Satanism going back thousands of years

Ephesians 6:12 - For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places
 
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I agree that the "Illuminati" (or the idea of it, what they actually call themselves or what we call them doesn't really matter) is real as well. I obviously don't know how far it extends or exactly how much of what experience daily is a product of them, but I think there's a basic agenda from the people who run this world to steer everyone away from Christ. The easiest place to notice blasphemy and anti-Christ agenda imo is modern music and music videos. I think most of the elite and rulers of this world are mixed up in mystery religion and/or Satanism going back thousands of years

Ephesians 6:12 - For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places

"Goes back thousands of years..."

All the way back to the first magickal covenant between a fallen principality, and the first humans, to the little side-deals people make with daemonos, or "wise/genius spirits" in exchange for power, influence or beauty (magickal covenants.)

What Paul says in 6:12 is not a generalized statement: in the Apocrypha there are classes of principalities, archons, powers, and rulers/angels. This is serious business, and shouldn't be dismissed because it sounds crazy, especially if you believe a Man died and came back to Life (but a groups of clandestine spiritual rulers of dark dimensions that seek to control the physical world is too far?)
 
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I was wondering if the new ad campaign would stir controversy.

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Looks like it has.

Well, I mean, have you met human beings? Of course it's going to be controversial because there are already people who read sinister meaning behind nearly everything already--an intentional parody like this as an ad campaign is going to make some people wet themselves in terror.

Anyone remember the crazy Monster energy drink lady?

-CryptoLutheran
 
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It's kinda funny because I used to point out what looks like a serpent's eye in the taco bell logo, now they and many others are just putting this kind of stuff out in the open to mock conspiracy theorists and turn it all into a joke


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There's enough of this stuff in popular media that I don't think it's a coincidence

Yeah, we wouldn't want to make a joke of conspiracy theorists.

We moon-dwelling lizard people have better things to do. I mean we're so busy with the whole cabal of Jewish bankers, faking moon landings, making globes to trick everyone that the earth is round, the Vatican, the Luciferian Atheist Muslim Alliance of Evil Democrats, the Legion of Doom, and that super computer that is tracking the name of every Bible Believing Christian™ so we know who sacrifice to Cthulhu who will rise from his slumber beneath the sea to consume all mortal flesh.

It's busy work. So we really shouldn't be taking time out of that schedule to joke about conspiracy theorists.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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Well, I mean, have you met human beings? Of course it's going to be controversial because there are already people who read sinister meaning behind nearly everything already--an intentional parody like this as an ad campaign is going to make some people wet themselves in terror.

Anyone remember the crazy Monster energy drink lady?

-CryptoLutheran

I remember her from Tosh....she thought the monster "m" was a hidden 666 or something nuts like that...

What I've always found interesting about the hardcore conspiracy theorists is how similar their paranoia mimics the early stages of multiple kinds of mental disorders. There's all kinds of non-bizarre paranoid delusions that would be virtually indistinguishable from the genuine beliefs of someone completely sane.
 
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I remember her from Tosh....she thought the monster "m" was a hidden 666 or something nuts like that...

What I've always found interesting about the hardcore conspiracy theorists is how similar their paranoia mimics the early stages of multiple kinds of mental disorders. There's all kinds of non-bizarre paranoid delusions that would be virtually indistinguishable from the genuine beliefs of someone completely sane.

She probably meant the Monster energy drink!

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