Drink Absolut Vodka-- Bring Back Mythical Aztlan
Here's an Absolut-ly Outrageous Ad running in Mexico City...
Absolut Vodka reaches out to La Raza:
Mi Blog Es Tu Blog saw the ad in the current issue of Quien magazine.
"In an Absolut World anything can happen including getting the US-Mexico border straight once and for all."
...You may become so drunk you might even imagine you're in Aztlan.
*Hic*
UPDATE: The ad is also on billboards now.
UPDATE 2: Anon provided this contact information for Absolut--
Contact information for Absolut:UPDATE 3: Absolut apologizes... Sort of.
Jeffrey Moran
Director of Public Relations and Events
The Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
1370 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
USA
Phone, direct: +1 212 641 87 20
E-mail: jeffrey.moran@absolut.com
posted by Gateway Pundit at 4/02/2008 04:06:00 PM
188 Comments:
Shouldn't this be sponsored by Mezcal?
Um... shouldn't this ad be in Spanish?
I have never liked this vodka anyways when I was a drinking man, and now they have cemented their place on my 'never again' list. I could not see why people would choose to drink this after having a superior product anyways.
I can not understand why people hate America, is it jealousy or do they really feel that what happened in the past was different would they be better off now.
I was not born into wealth and have made alot of mistakes along the way, but I don't think that if the past was different that I can use that as an excuse not to work hard now and try to make the best of things as they are, not live in a fantasy world of what could have been.
Soon Sweden will be an Islamic state, then Absolut will be absolut-ly out of business.
Yeah, well if Santa Ana hadn't sent that Mexican Army patrol across the Rio Grande and challenged President Polk and US sovereignty in Texas in 1846, it might still look like that.
Maybe somebody who knows how to use Photo Shop would like to return the favor: the same caption but for a map of Sweden which has painted green and renamed "The Islamic republic of Sweden".
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John McCain: La Raza’s voice in Washington
links & video @ link..
Aztlan, Raza, and MEChA
more info can be found via the net..
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...that would, of course, be alcohol-free Vodka.
As if they could run it any better than what they have now.
It could take a few years but they would likely beg to be part of the US again.
M'kay.
Just for a minute, think about what would have had to happen for this "reality" to have been a reality.
First, Santa Ana and teh Alamo wouldn't be remembered. Who, after all, remembers anything about Mexico? Anybody remember Cuauhtemoc Cardenas? (Temo?)
Any question that there would have been a major rift as a result of the Reform War?
Perhaps, like the romantic Muslim view of the way the map of the world "should" look like, there is a political romance among Mexicans that views Mexicans much like Americans...we just ended up with the geography. Were that so simple--or true--why would these romantics seek asylum in the United States? And why didn't they fight for when the time was at hand?
"Soon Sweden will be an Islamic state, then Absolut will be absolut-ly out of business."
Sweden recently sold off Absolut to Pernod Ricard spirits. Around 8 billion $
Bush is setting a precedent in Kosovo. And if Mexican immigration can change the demographics sufficiently, don't be surprised when the UN, to whom even the Rinos want to yield our sovereignty to, draws up the redistricting map to reflect "facts on the ground."
Does anyone have an e-mail for feedback to the company? I just went to their website, and cannot find anything. I would like to vent a bit of black bile their way. [and I used to think this was a classy company!]
Absolut no mas.
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Jonn Lilyea said...
Yeah, well if Santa Ana hadn't sent that Mexican Army patrol across the Rio Grande and challenged President Polk and US sovereignty in Texas in 1846, it might still look like that.
Good thing he isn't one of their national heroes, then....D'oh!
I wrote them and told them I would boycott them.
Contact information for Absolut:
Jeffrey Moran
Director of Public Relations and Events
The Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
1370 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
USA
Phone, direct: +1 212 641 87 20
E-mail: jeffrey.moran@absolut.com
Tito's vodka is quite good and made in Austin, Texas.
My vodka of choice is Monopolowa...it's sold in bars as top shelf, but available at the liquor store dirt cheap. Far better than Absolut(ely not).
Here is the thing, though. They could draw the border there and they would still be flocking over it by the millions.
As a resident of Colorado who would become a refugee based on the above map, all I can say to Absolut and the La Raza types is "Give it your best shot, but some of us gringos remember how to win wars, and it won't be pretty for your side"...
I wonder how they plan on chasing us out of Colorado?
I am armed, trained and a war veteran of the US Army. As are many here.
And then there's Texas.
We kicked their butts in several wars - do they need a reminder?
As T. R. Fehrenbach noted in “Fire and Blood,” his excellent (and un-PC) history of Mexico, the area Mexicans claim the U.S. “stole” from them was never really in its possession because “the predatory Apaches of Arizona, New Mexico and Sonora and the terrible, hard-riding Comanches of the Texas plains, presented the northern frontier with a problem the Spanish never solved. ... the horse Indians were neither conquered nor pacified. They defeated Spanish arms severely in Texas in the 1750s; they destroyed Spanish settlements everywhere on the frontier. They did worse: Comanches and Apaches raided hundreds of leagues beyond their territory into New Spain. The terror continued until the second half of the nineteenth century,” and before it abated, Mexico besought its northern conqueror to protect it from Indian depredation, to which the U.S. assented in Article XI of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:
“Considering that a great part of the territories, which, by the present treaty, are to be comprehended for the future within the limits of the United States, is now occupied by savage tribes, who will hereafter be under the exclusive control of the Government of the United States, and whose incursions within the territory of Mexico would be prejudicial in the extreme, it is solemnly agreed that all such incursions shall be forcibly restrained by the Government of the United States whensoever this may be necessary; and that when they cannot be prevented, they shall be punished by the said Government, and satisfaction for the same shall be exacted all in the same way, and with equal diligence and energy, as if the same incursions were meditated or committed within its own territory, against its own citizens.”
“Aztlan,” my ass.
i hope they try it, i'd love to see
the USA invade and pave over mexico
so that parking is much more easy when i go to the mall....
hasta la vista aztlan....
Well, it's a good thing I drink gin, then. I know all you vodka-imbibing people are not the ones I should be insulting, but really- vodka is just gin for people with no taste. Another reason to be thankful for my WASP genes, to which I can add that I'm honestly able to say I've never had the displeasure of personally interacting with a Mexican (or the like); the thought of a whole mass of them living, unbridled, in our country is near enough to give me fits. Blechh!
"Ass Land?!"
The legendary Aztlan was inhabited strictly by los Indios --there were no mestizos in them days! Too bad for the Razis...
Absolut has a blog where you can vent on this topic
http://absolut.com/iaaw/blog/give-us-your-best-shot#comment
Does anyone really think things would be substantially different if that map became reality overnight?
Corrupt federal government in Washington vs corrupt federal government in Mexico City?
What's the big deal?
This really makes me like Absolut vodka even more. Because not only is it funny, but it bugs the whole racist set to no end (as is apparent from the comments). And nothing makes me happier than bothering racists.
Aztlan???....isn't that the Aztec word for 'beaner toilet'?
"Here's an Absolut-ly Outrageous Ad in Mexico City..."
Locals looking at it were heard muttering, "Crap, now we have to go all the way to Montana?".
Yeah, well if Santa Ana hadn't sent that Mexican Army patrol across the Rio Grande and challenged President Polk and US sovereignty in Texas in 1846, it might still look like that.
I am a Texan and glad of it, but it's highly improbable the Mexican Army came north. We ginned up an excuse to go south. U.S. Grant's memoirs make that clear. But just because our history is not unblemished doesn't mean it's noty better than that of most.
Armigerous said...
Aztlan???....isn't that the Aztec word for 'beaner toilet'?
Classy!
I guess pandering to homosexuals just isn't cutting it anymore for Absolut
Since they apparently take offense at our conquering their territory, I suppose they intend to give everything back to the Aztecs? Or does the statute of limitations only go back 160 years?
Yea,well it's a damn sight classier than just sitting back and letting a bunch of 'reconquista' clowns drunk on Absolut bully people into thinking that Mexico still has some kind of sovereignty in the American southwest.
I thought the deal with Aztlan was that the Aztecs ABANDONED it to go south to look for the bird with the snake on a cactus (no really). Now they are mad that we are here? The nerve!
Maybe somebody who knows how to use Photo Shop would like to return the favor: the same caption but for a map of Sweden which has painted green and renamed "The Islamic republic of Sweden".
Nice, but an even better idea would be to have a map of Mexico Guatemala's northern border moved up to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, to include all of the Yucatan penninsula, Chiapas and Tabasco states, aka "Republica Maya".
Yeah, and if/when this happens, my bet is that before too long you'd have a mass exodus of Aztlanistas fleeing their socialist paradise in Mexifornia for places like Idaho, where things function more or less like they used to in the good ol' USA.
Anonymous said...
Does anyone really think things would be substantially different if that map became reality overnight?
Corrupt federal government in Washington vs corrupt federal government in Mexico City?
What's the big deal?
6:55 AM
From Wikipedia:
"Even though Article 10 of the Mexican Constitution declares the right to bear arms, it is currently illegal in Mexico for any civilian to own a fire arm of any caliber used, tested, or currently in use by the Mexican Government or Military.
This limits a citizen to legally own a .22 to .380 caliber rifle or similar firearm.
Ownership of any centerfire caliber designed for automatic or military rifles is forbidden."
Just one of many differences. This Texas laughs at you and the very idea of this being any part of Aztlan.
Press inquiries from the US, please contact:
Sarah E. Bessette, Public Relations Manager
The Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
401 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
USA
Phone, direct: 212 641 8653
Fax: 212 641 87 03
E-mail: sarah.bessette@absolut.com
For press inquiries from other countries, please choose your contact in the country selector to the left to get in touch with local PR agency
For Corporate Communications, please contact:
Paula Eriksson, Director Corporate Communications
V&S Absolut Spirits
117 97 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 8 744 72 36
Fax: +46 8 726 80 15
E-mail: paula.eriksson@absolut.se
FOR PRESS INQUIRIES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA, PLEASE CONTACT:
Kristina Hagbard, PR Manager
V&S Absolut Spirits
117 97 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 8 744 71 88
Fax: +46 8 744 71 70
E-mail: kristina.hagbard@absolut.se
For all other inquiries regarding ABSOLUT or V&S Absolut Spirits, including sponsor requests, please contact:
Erika Gelinder, Assistant Marketing
V&S Absolut Spirits
117 97 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone, direct: +46 8 744 71 76
Fax: +46 8 744 71 70
E-mail: siteinfo@absolut.se
OR this Texan
Dangit
Last thing most illegal Mexicans workers in the US want is for Mexico to regain its lost provinces. Then where would they work? The new Mexican states of California and Tejas? If they could get jobs in Mexico, they would not be here. They know that won't change in regained territories.
Ha ha ha. You people are fools.
Anonymous said...
Ha ha ha. You people are fools.
8:35 AM
Thank you for your munificent elloquence, of which we may only stand in awe, and precision of your writings, which we may only hope to ape. Perhaps the political debates can be shortened in this way, so that the candidates of your choice don't have to worry about such long prepared answers to difficult questions.
If this is published in the United States, would it be sedition (e.g. advocating the overthrow of the US govt, at least within a portion of its current borders)?
As P. J. O'Rourke wrote, "You stole half our country. And not only that, senor, you stole the half with all the paved roads."
Mexico can be a prosperous, stable country- god knows Mexicans are willing to work hard and be thrifty. But they've had socialist governments since 1915, and are afflicted with a kleptocrat ruling class that likes things just as they are. If the US seals the border, Mexico would be in revolution within a year.
I don't get why the "headline" on the ad is in English, when everything else is in Spanish.
Thank you for your munificent elloquence,
before you get pedantic you might want to learn to spell, ell oh ell
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ.
Assuming this isn't some kind of internet hoax, this company should be boycotted by every loyal American.
BTW, I'm sure every bone-headed reconquista out there would be JUST as interested in re-annexing this territory if the United States were a poor and weak country. (Sarcasm should be noted.)
And on that note, what these racist raza a&&holes seem to forget is that the US *bought* the land from Mexico as a term in that treaty of 1848. And today, we give 100s of millions to Mexico just to keep their economy from tanking. So this isn't about territorial rights. It's probably more about lust for power, wealth and land, and maybe blood.
Someone needs to photoshop that picture so it shows the USA controlling 99% of the green on the map.
oh who cares, is this stupid vodka really that important. do you really have to make sure you find at least one thing to be outraged about every single day? it must be a slow republican outrage news day. what's next, outrage that jane fonda said she likes barack obama?
by the way, just to let you know, when a vodka company (or any other company) does something like this, they want you to be outraged and boycott the drink and tell everyone else to do it too. That's the plan, you see because it's free advertising. You are doing their work for them by screaming boycott . . .
The only thing funnier than the ad is the comments.
People, it's a freaking ad !!!!
Haha I agree. It seems most posters take everything literal. Maybe they have Asperger's syndrome.
They are talking War!!?? Give me a break. A 3 year old has more sense of reality.
And then we as Americans are surprised some other countries are outraged when we depict them badly in our movies or when we use their national anthems to dress up a scene.
Yeah, it's no big deal, some company running an add campaign calling for the conquest of half of our country. No reason to not want to support a company that thinks that a cool thing. BTW, http://finance.google.com/finance?cid=2522663 has the phone for Permod Ricard USA, the USA side of Absolut's new owner.
The equivalent photoshop would be a map showing Sweden as part of Greater Denmark. Or maybe Norway.
I'm from Wisconsin where the term "dumb Swede" is part of the vocabulary in most of the state. The clowns who ran this ad will lose more sales stateside than they will gain in the kleptocratic Narcocracy to the south.
Lyndon Johnson used to say "if you let them in your yard, they will sit on your porch. If they sit on your porch, they will be in the kitchen a little later. Finally, they'll be in your living room and you'll have to move." He taught these worthless dummies for two years after he graduated from San Marcos State. Read Robert Caro for the full version of what LBJ saw as the Mexican menace.
Deport them if they don't have papers.
The scattered Mexican citizens of what is now the U.S.'s Southwest also wanted independence from Mexico, although they weren't expecting to become part of the U.S., but were overtaken by events. The Texas rebellion wasn't just an "anglo" one, but included prominent Tex-Mex families into which many of the Anglo settlers had married into. California and "New Mexico" (all the rest after you subtract CA and TX), had independence movements of their own.
This Aztlan scare is not worth worrying about.
Why do Mexicans come to the US? For US minimum wage, that is why. The last thing they want is for that to go away by the US SouthWest becoming part of Mexico.
Furthermore, La Raza, etc. are paper tigers. I'd like to see them capture even Compton and Watts first. I doubt they could even purge the black people out of South Central. I doubt they could get the Mafia to give up Las Vegas to Mexico.
These losers are the last thing we need to worry about. Worry about Al-Qaeda, not some Mexican nationalists.
I think there's a much better chance we'll go back to the original Republic of Texas borders, myself.
@ bonerici
by the way, just to let you know, when a vodka company (or any other company) does something like this, they want you to be outraged and boycott the drink and tell everyone else to do it too. That's the plan, you see because it's free advertising. You are doing their work for them by screaming boycott . . .
Heh. Tell that to the French wine industry, which took a huge hit in this country due to their intransigence over the lead-up to the Iraq War. They haven't fully recovered market share that they lost to domestic and "friendly" foreign producers.
I think Tuborg or Carlsberg needs to come out with an ad showing Sweden as part of Denmark (which it used to be). "In a Tuborg world...."
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Next thing you know these 'Aztlanistas' will be demanding that they play the Mexican national anthem at major league baseball games..."The Donkey &The Taco"
hahahahaha.... that ain't AZTLAN ....thats a map of Mexico 160 years ago.
Gringos better recognize....and stop reacting because of a guilty conscience.
Aztlan is a pre 1000AD mythical cave up in the 4 corner region somewhere in the US Southwest.
Don't confuse a myth/marketing campaign with a historically accurate map.....
why would gringos find an ad like this offensive?
hahahahaha....cuz they don't want to hear the truth....which is the same reason they are so uneasy with a what Reverend Wright had to say.
Chill out. It is only marketing. Ando for (dumb) mexican elites (it is in english, in a mexican magazine).
And the map is not accurate. It leaves central america out. Part of the empire back then (until 1824).
Salud!
I think Tuborg or Carlsberg needs to come out with an ad showing Sweden as part of Denmark (which it used to be). "In a Tuborg world...."
Mission accomplished.
"Um... shouldn't this ad be in Spanish?"
Jorge rightly points out it's for it's in English 'cause it's targeted toward the élite. Hardly the most torch-wielding radical of demographics.
Also, nowhere does this say "Aztlán." Aztlan may have been mythical, but Alta California certainly was not.
This ad campaign plays to a lighthearted "wouldn't it be nice if" theme - witness the almost identical ones put up locally, in San Francisco. While I think it would be nice if L.A. broke off from Northern California and left us alone forever, I hardly think many people are going to take up arms to make that a reality anytime soon... let alone move to SoCal to try to invade it or "take it over." (I don't think Absolut is advocating forced insemination for males, either.)
While immigration is a very real issue, getting up in arms about an ad, IN ENGLISH (and people complain when ads aren't in the States) for people who've STAYED IN MEXICO is a distraction, at best.
P.S. to Anonymous: If you don't think La Raza would have trouble capturing Compton, why not look at the progression of demographics over the last 10-20 years? It shows no signs of reversal.
For the anti-American reconquista moron who wrote that we're over-reacting because of white guilt, try taking up another sport than mind-reading. This has more to do with outrage than anything else. It has more to do with the gaul and audacity some loony Mexicans feel the need to display. This is OUR house now. Sorry, but you're not getting it back. Not feeling any guilt! Too much history, too much time has passed. It won't be undone now. Deal with it.
Secondly, for those accusing *US* of racism, try looking at your own hearts. If you think that this concept is okay, that re-annexing this territory is not the result of Aztec or Mayan racially supremist attitudes, then you're either in denial or incredibly stupid.
Get the log out of your own eye before you concern yourself with the splinter in ours.
I'm late to the party, huh?
But I'm going to have my say anyway.
The person who drew and ran that ad is probably the real bigots in this discussion. It (on purpose) completely misrepresents the immigration problem, trying to literally throw fuel on the fire, to sell their product.
What a guy.
I wouldn't drink your vodka if I was dying of thirst.
Mexicans are not coming to the United States to take over. They are coming here for the same reasons many of our ancestors came here. They are looking for opportunity. If we gave all that land to Mexico, they would just have further to travel.
And please stop saying that immigration laws are racist.
It wouldn't matter if it was 25 million Canadians jumping the fence, we would still be having this discussion.
I'm in Bush's corner on the immigration issue. First we need to establish a guest worker program, so we can get everyone that is in the United States identified and out of the shadows. If they want to become citizens (not all of them do) they can get on the list and wait like everyone else.
We don't need a fence. We need a good, working relationship with our neighbors and they don't want our land, they want our opportunity.
To TaSS
They are not in the shadows. And we already have 10 guest worker programs in the US. Are we suppose to start another one just for the illegals?
Listen anonymous,
I understand how you feel. If you want to come into the United States the first thing you should understand is, we are a nation of laws and we expect them to be respected.
However our own politicians are not enforcing OUR LAWS.
A disgraceful betrayal of the trust placed in them.
But as with many things, you have to deal with the situation today. Here is what I think should happen:
1. Every illegal in the US MUST register for the guest worker program. If they FAIL to register, they face immediate deportation.
2. Every employer in the US must have a fast and effective way to check immigration status. If they fail to do so, they face heavy fines and if it is a flagrant violation, I would suggest jail time.
3. Guest workers may get on a list to obtain citizenship if desired however, it doesn't move their application up to the front. The people who respected our laws and are currently on the list, get first crack at citizenship.
Once we have a legal way for workers and non-US citizens to enter the country, we can assume that those trying to "jump the border," are doing so for nefarious reasons and we can act appropriately.
I just don't see a time where pulling up buses in front of people's houses and dragging old people and young kids into the buses and driving them over the border is acceptable. Nor do I see it as a good thing to begin separating families into those born here and those born elsewhere.
We have to deal with the situation as it is and make sure it doesn't reoccur.
NAFTA is also a good step. We want to empower our neighbors so that they grow economically and people do not have to leave their homes to find opportunity. Of course, certain conditions should be placed on our help, which includes more of that money trickling out of the hands of the corrupt and into the general population but as you can plainly see with Colombia, they are trying and we should do everything in our power to help.
If you want to contact the decision makers at V&S Group/Absolut, here is the contact info:
Chairman Claes Dahlbäck, President and CEO Bengt Baron, SVP Mats Andersson, Claes Åkesson, Sofia Leffler Moberg, Peeter Luksep, Jacob Broberg, Paula Eriksson, Jeffrey Moran, Kristina Hagbard, and Erika Gelinder
Email addresses are: Claes.Dahlback@vsgroup.com, Bengt.Baron@vsgroup.com, Mats.Andersson@vsgroup.com, Claes.akesson@vsgroup.com, sofia.leffler.moberg@vsgroup.com, ir@vsgroup.com, jacob.broberg@vsgroup.com, jeffrey.moran@absolut.com, paula.eriksson@vsgroup.com, info@vsgroup.com, siteinfo@absolut.se, kristina.hagbard@absolut.se
Time for them to face a boycott this is treason the company bosses should be sent to prison
what I don't get is WHY is absolut doing this?...aren't they a Scandinavian company?...weird...good find...see my blog:
http://yesman82.blogspot.com/2007/05/illegal-aliens.html
In an "Absolutely" perfect world all of this territory would still belong to the white Europeans who first discovered it. VIVA ESPANA!
Tass, you make good points, but no one here will listen. They're all looking for a fight... not a sane solution. You're thinking like a rational person... something that is sadly rare these days.
Come and get it, b!thces
TaSS
You want anywhere between 12 and 38 million illegal aliens in a guest worker program? That's insane not to mention we already have 10 guest worker programs. And we already have a legal way for non-US citizens to enter this country which of about 4 million become citizens every year. And if you registered 12 million people in this farc guest worker program you would stem the flow. In 10 years you would have 40 million new illegals to deal with. You "plan" is nothing more than AMNESTY through the back door.
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okay, okay.. all lies..
we all know the Muslims discovered planet
Earth & every piece of land in it first!!
i posted about this months ago, along
with warnings of what to expect..
Your children may learn that Muslims discovered America
excerpt:
[These militants and their supporters have set their eyes on our children, and are attempting to brainwash them by supplying free textbooks which whitewash the truth regarding Muslim extremism, while promoting Arab and Palestinian political goals. These "teaching materials" also impugn and devalue America, Western nations, Israel. Judaism, and Christianity. The article, 'Textbooks for Jihad,' found here is a good analysis of these developments .
The Council on American—Islamic Relations, some of whose members have been "outed" as terror supporters, has an active program to supply these this type of propaganda to libraries across the nation. Naturally, like schools, the librarians are more than happy to accept inexpensive, or free, material to fill their shelves. Yet these same books and audio—visual material are filling our children's minds with lies that are tantamount to propaganda that teach hate. Efforts should be made by local activists and PTA or PTO members to scrutinize the reading lists at our "educational" institutions.]
did anyone listen?? of course not!! :D
seriously though, people haven't got a clue as to what is going on behind the Britney Spears et al propaganda.. there is a stranger reality, yes Ripley, it's real..
The Muslims who discovered America
excerpt:
[In anticipation of Columbus Day, I've been educating myself on the Muslims who discovered America.
You mean you didn't know that Muslims were in America before Columbus?
You didn't know Muslim navigators took Columbus by the hand and led him to a little island in the Bahamas known as Guanahani, a settlement of Islamic Mandinkas from Africa?
You hadn't heard about the Muslims from both Spain and West Africa who sailed to America at least five centuries before Columbus?
Yes, this is the new uni-cultural rage with the U.S. Muslim community. There are seminars in major cities and mosques all over the United States this week explaining how Muslims discovered America. That's how they are going to be celebrating Columbus Day.]
Allahu Absolute Akbar!!
in case a Dhimmi Dem is elected,
drink up while you still can..
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Blown away...not that I drink much, but that WAS my Vodka. Not any more.
I am really tied of this victim hood coming from the south of the border. The Spanish, after all, raped, pillaged and killed the Aztec people and their culture.
Why don't the Spanish give Mexico back to the Mexicans and go back to Europe.
Here is a list of the companies that market thru the Mexican Ad Agency TERAN\TBWA (e-mail bolsadetrabajo@terantbwa.com.mx ) That is the source of the disgusting Ad...
Absolut
Adidas
Apple
AstraZeneca
Fujifilm
Haagen Dazs
Nextell
Nissan
Pedigree
Roche
Twix
Call Contact and ask them why their subsideries do business with an add agency that markets potental Race War...
"This is OUR house now. Sorry, but you're not getting it back. Not feeling any guilt! Too much history, too much time has passed."
Sure buddy, things wont change, as matter of fact "your" perceived status quo position is SO secured.
If that was true, then why the outrage? Cuz you know its done.
Undocumented or not, legal or citizen, the great great grandchildren of the Mexicans of 1848, have re-taken their place in the US southwest and the industrial corridors of the US Midwest and East.
Relax buddy,unless some draconian/gulag/nazi type policies get enacted (which you know, could happen, the US aint above reactionaries, ie Japanese Internment camps) Mexicans are here to stay.
Better start learning some spanish and choosing what's your favorite guacamole dish. Do it buddy, you'll make for a more interesting human being for it, I promise you.
Does any one remember when Spain and Portugal were crappy backwards countries? Then they joined the EU and had to get their act together.
Since Mexico continues to be a crappy backwards country, we should let them in as states of the union and do what we did to the rest of their country - make them a prosperous part of ours.
Check out this link for one way in which Mexico could join the union: http://members.aol.com/xpus/Mexico.html.
Everyone is missing the big picture here.
When I see that ad, I laugh - DANG - that is a LOT of TERRITORY. They must have gotten their arses HANDED to them an a friggin PLATE!!!
That ad barely stops short of calling Mexico a "has been" country.
The problem is - Mexicans KNOW why the border is where it is now and the memory is not on their list of things to be proud of.
Think about it - what if an ad came out like that which showed the twin towers and it said "The REAL tallest buildings in the world".
Kind of hard to get all welled up with pride isn't it?
You see why that ad does NOTHING to glorify Mexico at all?
That ad is a serious advertising f%^$ up.
Mexico can't even govern its own territory properly and Absolut wants to say it deserves more? Laughable. Grey Goose or Stolichnaya for me from now on.
My response, in an ad of my own.
Lots of great comments.
Love the "Absolut Boycott" and the idea of a similar map with Sweden under the Islamic crescent.
Suffice to say no Absolut for me.
What is so wrong about history. Funny how we can remember the Alamo so easily, but not the blatant theft of half of a nation.
Shall we look into the reasons for the outright theft of land? Manifest Destiny, a religious/political ideal sold to the common man to justify an utter invasion and theft of land. For no other reason than to expand the country from "sea to shining sea."
It is this type of hypocrisy that foments divisive attitudes within the nation. How about upholding basic Christian principles on which this nation is supposedly found on and asking for forgiveness for theft.
And if we look further, after taking over half of a nation we vilify the same people we took their land from.. Does this sound like Nazi Germany all over again (e.g., Poland? where the Nazis wanted to "Germanize" Poland). The level of hypocrisy is undaunting...
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Anonymous @ 3:20 PM..
that you Baghdad Bob??
hmmm, kool-aid is non alcoholic right??
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Before I saw this distrubing excuse for an advertisment Absolute Citron used to be my favorite. Now I will NEVER buy or drink it again. What fool of a CEO would allow this to happen? What an idiot.
It just goes to show you the mentality of La Raza Aztecs. First, they turn their country into a shithole that they can't even stand to live in. Then, they sneak into California to find a better life. Then, they vow to turn California into the same shithole from which they just escaped. Yes, these are the same people who honored their sports heroes by killing and eating them.
Is the supposed "Aztec Country" a shithole because it does not mirror the infrastructure of the US? How about the level of disease in this country? The level of AIDS? Pornography? national debt now standing at $10 Trillion? the level of immorality? What is it worth for a nation to have infrastructure if its people are morally deteriorating??
I'd rather have less infrastructure, values, morals, roots and tradition over the depravity of this nation..
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Anonymous @ 3:50 PM.
yep, we bad..
why don't you whip US up a Fat Wa??
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To BG... lol!
sure we'll start one tomorrow... touche
The real point is being missed here. Either we assimilate these people or we send them back, but we cannot allow this type of rhetoric to continue because we do not want a generation from now for an attitude to sink in within this demographic that will be equivalent to the demographic which seeks reparations.
LOL you Americans are so funny. Absolut posts an ad, not even in your country and look at all the fuss you create.. Immediately talking about guns and kicking people's ass... Seriously, just get a life
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Anon @ 4:09 PM..
yes it is funny how we view ourselves as being the "worst country on Earth".. yet when we boil it down to the bone (so to speak) we are the "best of the worst"!!
Global HIV/AIDS estimates, end of 2007
Population Clocks
reparations for what??
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