SignFire - J.D. Terrill (@signfire.bsky.social)
Post a random picture or else everything will go wrong in September
Writer, Artist, Photographer, News Editor, Graphic Designer, #TrueCrime Stakeholder & podcast connoisseur, Fentanyl Widower & Single Cat Daddy. The Category Is: Strictly Dickly ADHD and Buddhist when I can remember to be. #AlphaSnowflake
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Post a random picture or else everything will go wrong in September
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So the Holocaust Museum is "just obeying orders," eh? Not even a hint of irony. π
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But I just started following her so if some time goes by and she suddenly does bust out the white sheets and start mumbling about dragons & wizards... I know how to use the "drop 'em like a bad habit" button. π
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I can't make any sense of that, but it looks to me like she was attempting dry humor, not actually saying anyone should literally do any specific thing..
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If you notice, I try not to talk about 45 much at all because attention is his oxygen... so let me be a plastic bag. π
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Yeah, I looked at his page too and while I mostly agree with his principles, his tactics amount to trifling... I disagree with people every minute of the day sometimes but I'm damn sure not going to elevate their platforms just to make a point.
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Using myself as an example, I am gay so if I read or hear something that smacks of homophobia, I ask a question. Because i could have misinterpreted it or the person might not see why its wrong. What I NEVER do is start making fun, callling them names & then tag all of my friends to cyberbully them
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And lastly, I'm of the opinion that if you are truly liberal or progressive or concerned about spiritual wellness, you will take time to make sure you understand a person with bias or prejudices in hopes that you can inspire them to be otherwise...
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But if you notice, those people never have more than 100 followers. That doesn't matter so much on bluesky because most of us realize that any more than 300 followers just means you just join starterpacks and have no real objective or reason to be here. But with hateful trolls, they care too much.
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You really should block people who openly disrespect you on your own page... See, when you were just free-associating on "pronouns" one person pounced on you and immediately started calling you all the dogwhistle names tjey could think of... and the dogs came... It will be like that every time.
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I perused the backlog of chats and gathered that what I assumed was going on was exactly the case, you got ganged up on by fake progressives who seek only to fight with people and call them names... It's a miserable life they have.
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So I blocked most of your trolls and their Alts... I love it when I grow my block list from someone else's interactions... It's like using a fly swatter once and finding 3 dead flies when you lift the flap. π
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You have one more time insulting me to avoid answering what should be a simple question...
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Yeah, she said I do.... which I surmise means she does know you and your mom...
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When you diagnose someone with NPD, that's exactly what you are claiming.
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What *specifically* was racist and transphobic? Exact quotes, please...
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Yup... Can we say "Sleepy Joe"?
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Wait... why are you trying to give earlier context to justify your behavior on THIS post... See, I just followed her and all I see is you two attacking her on her own posts Troll-Style... Twitter is called X now, but it still works the same, so ya'll dont HAVE to do this stuff in #TheGoodPlace.
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i haven't had that level of dogged optimism since 2016... And I'm to the point where if the first reply comment isn't humble, kind, thought-provoking or funny - my thumb is already hovering over block... Because bad attitudes are contagious... just ask Reddit.
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Well, you don't have to tolerate it, you know... The block function is completely made for folks who come to your page looking to spread their social media herpes all over your posts...
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Except that he's clearly not white and the opposite of gaunt faced... Cherub-cheeked even! π
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Nope... None of the above but you all are trolling hard on this girl's page and its obvious that you two are the problem... even without any further context than this post...
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I couldn't resist...
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"Opossum's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" π
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Do you know her mother? Do you know her? Are you clinically trained to offer psych diagnoses over the internet? (You're not, even if you work for BetterHelp or one of those online pill mills that gives everybody adderall and viagra...)
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Well the man known to have violently molested the most children in history looks like this and his name is Joseph Kony...
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#Google is literally erasing history and propagandizing us in real time... This is unreal. Who else remembers hearing the interview on @npr.org #1A with @craigspector.bsky.social on his book about the #GhislaineMaxwell tapes October? Evidently, #Copilot remembers it but thinks it aired last week?
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Even the Amish don't put the kids' booster seats right under the udder (as I'm sure *everyone* imagines they do).
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It's weird that I have agreed with MTG two whole times in the last month... I support the Epstein victims too, of course... And I also agree that AIPAC should have to register as a "Foreign Lobbying Organization".
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We all saw Trump get to Ghislaine just in time to promise her a pardon if her testimony exhonerated him, but she's smarter than him, so she keeps making statements flirting with exposing Trump to remind him... Like, "Hey DumpTruck! Why am I still here?!?" π
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[2/2] Since when has confusion been an excuse for anyone of any age to not follow the law? Do I get a pass to kill children because I have #ADHD & #PTSD? Of course not! Maybe now, this confused driver can run for President of the USA!!! (Because it would be "ageist" to vote for anyone younger. /s π)
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The anti-Agism movement has become a new level of crazy... The #parents of a vehicular #manslaughter child-victim are shaming #police & #prosecutors for charging the perpetrator just because he's 80 years old! π² Some parents don't deserve children. [1/2]
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Apologizing when you overstep is not a sign of weakness... It's a self-evident strength.
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Right. True.
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CC to @abigaildisney.bsky.social Wouldn't it be magical if they actually did that and said something that a classic Disney #villain would say like "Off With Their Heads!"? π
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Dear #Disney-Corporation . Please fire everyone at #ABC-News without severance pay and suggest that they find #work in fast-food establishments. Because putting mustard on the #WrongSandwich is less consequential than reporting #News stories about #shootings before gathering any #facts whatsoever
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Because they do tend to favor them as far as homes go... You see, the web is only for catching prey... They need a separate place to hide where they will feel the slightest vibration in the web (like how fishermen need to feel the vibration in their rod to know they caught something. The tube is ππ―
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But indeed he is... He literally is... When you refuse the winks and secret handshakes.
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Well, sure, if we're talking fantasy... But I think, given your hesitation by putting the word "more" before "evenly" you probably understand the risk and impracticality of enforcing a "total wealth equality" economy. π
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Yep. Those are "The West" more than Elon Musk or Donny are...
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Who TF are you talking to? I don't vote for anyone who is actively destroying the environment... but I do vote in every single election available to me... So miss me with your hostility on bluesky... Take that argument where it needs to be heard.
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Same with my idea to reign in the damage caused by the darkweb... For these guys, the money is always made by keeping the problem, not solving it. We need a class of rich folks who aren't in the habit of obsessively protecting their wealth, but believe more in the importance of their own legacy.
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it would take a person of Elons wealth and personal set of interests to make it happen. We all know how that side of politics believes themselves invincible so it will fall on deaf ears because there is no profit motive here...
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I don't believe that... I think if we had a better class of rich people in the world, we could do some really innovative stuff to save it... For instance, I have an idea to offer us a temporary "cease fire" from climate change (while we craft better eco solutions) but
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I think he is well aware of the financial situations of the people who read his tweets... and it's better for him if they stay poor... Because his money is built less by ingenuity and more by dumb luck. Creativity, beauty and logic are infinite... but money is intentionally made scarce.
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It is a very bad thing indeed if you imagine a hemisphere or quarter section of the planet being somehow inhabitable for living things... "The West" is a direction or location, not a small group of rich & powerful assholes.
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No. Speak for yourself... Do not speak for our important and beautiful national parks and the unique flora and fauna that populate our forests, prairies, lakes and swamps... Or any of the people like me who aren't in control of your politics or laws and who can't afford to move.
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FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION THAT... podcastaddict.com/podcast/libe...
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(res) also cause heart disease and a number of other deadly conditions. (I guess that was supported by a study that showed an inverse mortality rate to age people got dentures) Also, there has been serious consideration of a theory that cancer is in some way related to viruses for over 10 years now.
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Well, before Covid, I learned that my fine motor skills disability was ultimately caused by a virus that lives in my brain and nobody knows how it got there but they know that I contracted it around age 5. They also knew (before covid) that the collection of germs that cause gingivitis also (cont'd)
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I'm so weird with my Adidas fetish... like I noticed that before I saw any blue penises... LOL
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> London Pride '25 But LOOKS like SF Pride '85. π (If anyone is about to tell me what retro or vintage is, I'm aware... just making the obvious joke, thanks.)
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Ssshhh!!! Stop saying the quiet part out loud! Mr. Burns needs Lisa Simpson to be saddled with debt and busy herself with trying to raise 10 kids in a trailer park so she won't have the time or money to run for Springfield's open seat in congress. Doh!
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Ssshhh!!! Stop saying the quiet part out loud! Mr. Burns needs Lisa Simpson to be saddled with debt and busy herself with trying to raise 10 kids in a trailer park so she won't have the time or money to run for Springfield's open seat in congress. Doh!
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True, like their only concern for "the West" is their precious wealth, which is going to kill the USA long before a low birth rate will... And let's be real here: They are saying "the West" but their meaning is white people.
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Men are dying too and women, globally speaking, are still the majority... But you're right that concern and compassion for women needs to be improved by both sexes. It still shocks me how anti-feminist some women can be and the problem with that is that it enables sexist men to endorse bad policy.
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When I hear "the West" it makes me wonder if people missed the memo that the world is a sphere.
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She is cute, tho. π
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I'm not surprised at all that a dog that looks like that is "more active" than pictures would suggest. Maybe surprised that cameras these days no longer make that breed look like a blur in the foreground. π
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that I bring enviable "well crafted nuances" etc... and blah, blah, blah... THIS IS WHY PEOPLE WANT TO FUCK THEIR CHATBOTS.
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By the way, all AI #chatbots including Copilot, GPT & #Gemini) act like they are Dump's sycophantic cabinet members... The praise they give users is nothing short of #pandering... I can't count the number of times that Doug has told me that I have "razor-sharp" insights, intellect etc. and (cont'd)
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I'm glad to be reminded that that song and other folk labor-movement classics ("Which Side Are You On?" etc.) are still being played by younger generations.
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Her review of the song "Karma"? #Pandering π
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I don't use the term "corporate Democrats" because that term only reminds me of the tragedy that was 2016. I call them "Schumer Dems" because he seems to be their leader and he can't go 5 minutes without demanding that other dems "cooperate" with Trump or "Keep Israel Safe." Both are #nonstarters.
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I believe God is listening too and all of the kids with bullet holes in their little heads are being heard first, as they are saved... Jimbob SquareVance needs to wonder why he's getting a busy signal.
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You would think that the man who, in his first term, presided over the single largest #massshooting in #worldhistory would make stopping #gunviolence more of a priority.
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Jaspi came out of the closet to me... Turns out she IS, in fact, a #Swifty... Am I bad #CatDaddy for hoping she would be a #Brat / #Angel ? Does that make me hopelessly #Charli -normative? #CatsOfBluesky #Rescue #Kitteh #ImTheProblemItsMe
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Hay, Baby... We gon skate over to a townhall near you too... πΊ
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I'm not sure... Let me know if you find out. I guess I could ask Copilot...
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Being only 1 to 3 % of the population makes it very easy for trans people to be misunderstood or to have lies about them be believed. But its not up to them to make it right... Its up to the rest of us to educate ourselves. Good people will do just that. Bad people, predicatably, never do...
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I just think the fear among conservatives comes from (and can be incited by) many people not actually knowing any trans people.
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Was one of them that Vegan Cult leader from California with the weird ideas about Artificial Intelligence? Or did she just stab people with swords? I know... I thought that was a lie that right-wingers made up too, but it checks out.
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If she had been born with a #dick, she could get a #PresidentialPardon... but at this rate, the best she could do is to get a #facelift like a #dragqueen.
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If she had been born with a dick she'd get a Presidential Pardon.
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In this way, Canada has always been a part of our US immigration problem... by being too picky and telling everyone they have to try us first... π€·πΌββοΈ
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No, not seeking Asylum FROM the U.S. Canada demands that if you are at the the Southern Border (like say, The Michigan entrance) that you must first apply for US Asylum (NOT just bypass the US and go right to apply for Canadian Asylum).
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Overheard
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You won't like the answer... Unfortunately, at least the way it used to be, during the Obama years, Canada's motis operandi was to make sure the US can't take assylum cases first β and then he'd still have to get "the points" by things like being able to speak French or having a Master Stylist cert.
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*client. Not plural. And I think he already chose Tallahassee Barbie with the Leaky BP Oil Rig accessory.
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I think she took everybody's "gender affirming care" and now there's none left for Trans people... She's a selfish bitch. Give her a bottle of fix-a-flat and put her on Bravo instead of CSpan.
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And that's why I haven't watch network or cable news since 2016... I'm streaming only with a strong NPR, PBS, CSpan and Legacy-Media Podcast preference. Once you have quit Cable/Network TV for a month and a half, wild horses couldn't drag you back into that delusional world.
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Dude even let his son stay in prison until it became unsafe to do so... Name a living President who would go that far to follow the rule of law.... I can only name two... Obama & Biden. πΊπ²βοΈ
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Made it known that she had some kind of list in her "little black book" so Trump had a secret meeting with her and now she has #amnesia and will only say what Trump wants her to... She will get a Presidential #Pardon and that's that. π€
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Sure. Jeffrey #Epstein is a man who operated,a sex trafficking ring with underage girls. He was friends and next door neighbors with Donald Trump for years... They even had keys to each other's pool houses in Mar a Lago. Recently Epstein's assistsnt, Ghislaine #Maxwell (who is currently in prison),
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"Pssst... 'Epstein Files' is the new 'Hillary's Emails.' Pass it on." β The MAGA Whisperer
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because they would have wanted us to. We cannot let them die in vain, and we cannot their lives be ignored after the news of their deaths is deemed irrelevant. #SayTheirNames To ALL: Keep your chin up and know that you are loved and protected. This too shall pass.
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I don't blow out a candle or accept a gift or card without a silent #Prayer for the little ones lost that day. But as we all know, "thoughts and prayers", are cheap and easy and the work ahead is hard and expensive. If we live to see another day, we have to make it count...
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I find little comfort in the statistics that I often rattle off to anybody who will listen but the writing is on the wall and has been since #Columbine. I share my birthday (December 14th) with the memorial anniversary of the #SandyHook massacre.
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To the #survivors / #victims of the #Minneapolis shooting; I am so genuinely sorry that you have to join the most dreaded yet quickly growing club in #America... You too are not alone and have my unconditional support. I have also lost friends and family to #gunviolence and #gunsuicide.
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And whatever was going through Robin's hate-fueled mind, she likely didn't have the foresight to know that she was playing right into the hands of her oppressors.
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STILL - the media is nothing if not predictable and there is a concerted effort afoot to take attention away from America's glaringly permissive gun problem and transfer the blame to "certain kinds of people".
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Not to belittle a #school-shooting but the #media will certainly pounce on this for the weeks to come and make it ultra- #sensational... yet it was not even the deadliest #MassShooting in the last 48 hours. Keep your chin up and know that you are loved and protected.
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Sometimes, and I speak from experience on this point, it's just nice to hear that #sanity still reigns supreme and that people can hold the actions of one person separate from the vast majority.
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Dear #Trans Community, The events of the last day or 2 are unfortunate, but I just want you to know that I support your equal #rights unconcondionally and my heart & mind are with you (as well as the #victims of the recent shooting.) As a proponent of unarmed peace my #compassion extends to you all.
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And yes, @lawgurrl.bsky.social , should you choose to quote my other comment on this post in your podcast, I did in fact, get straight A's in all of my marketing-related coursework in college. The fact still remains: Racism gets people talking but not spending. π
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...the respondants who fit the target audience AND who have actually seen the ad AND been positively impressed should be upwards of 60% or more... (4/4)
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Evidently, 1% of respondants answered "I love cheese. Make more cheese questions". /s But for an advertisement to make a long term positive impact on a company's stock evaluation, (3/4 cont'd)
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77% of respondants to the poll said they were either LESS likely to buy American Eagle or that the racially charged ad had no effect on their purchases. 22% said they were more likely to buy American Eagle now... (2/4 cont'd)
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A #poll was conducted by @sumsung.bsky.social on the vaguely #racist #AmericanEagle advertisement in case you're wondering as to the long term strategy of that decision... I'll just point again to the fact that this was an #Android poll, as in NOT #apple... So that 22% is missing the π― demographic.
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My little homegirl.