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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:50 AM Original message |
When did everything become a "brand"? |
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That Is Quite Enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's the new meme invented by the media and adopted by everyone else. |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. GOP chair Mehlman went public with the term in the 2006 cycle |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
2. When the corporatists decided we're nothing more than consumers |
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lectrobyte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
3. Seemed to happen around 1980 or so. Effective marketing became way |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:57 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I never heard the phrase "the Republican brand" till this year. |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I first heard it per the GOP in 2006 |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. Like commercials showing sex instead of what the product does. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:06 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. That's funny! |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
5. When corporate admen took over both parties |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
7. The deification of corporations and their "products" is complete. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
8. Didn't brands once strive for value? |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Why do the cereal boxes keep getting smaller, and the prices bigger? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:12 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. To inversely match the ratio between |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
12. Long time ago. |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
14. Everything IS about marketing /advertising. |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
16. When we became consumers instead of citizens |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. I just want to be a citizen. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
17. when the corporations took over |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
18. Band-aid is a brand and it's stuck on John Travolva |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
19. Bout 3 years into Reagan's first term |
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Batgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
21. Branding is an age-old marketing strategy |
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Batgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. and when you see Rove calling Obama "arrogant" that little shit is trying to create a brand |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
23. Brand is what locks you into one mindset--rigid and immutable. |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
24. Hyper reality, everything is an illusion. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
25. When they killed off the jingle writers... |
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