Why are people triggered by this beer commercial?

[Jotaux]

What was the star wars boycott about?

[KrazyK923]

What was the star wars boycott about?

Because they were butthurt the Empire was presented as fascists with a vast majority of white people in its ranks and somehow that was attacking the white identity?

Its hard to know the logic, if there even is any, behind their freakouts. It doesn't even have to be real. It could just be what they FEEL about it.

Their fee-fees were hurt.

Oh and that John Boyega and Daisy Ridley were the main characters. Because nothing says 'I'm totes not a bigot" by being butthurt the main cast are a black man and a woman.

[Tikaru]

What was the star wars boycott about?

One of the lead actors isn't white. I wish I was joking too.

[Krigaren]

Because people are so convinced that America needs to be great again that they don't realize that America has never stopped being great. The American dream is alive and well, and a lot of people who scream about it not being are just too lazy to go out and do what needs to be done.
America is built on the backs of people who risked and sacrificed it all to make it in this country. Too many people think wealth, power, success should be handed to them because of who they are or because a piece of paper says they completed mandatory course work. This flies for both the righties and the lefties.

While you're right that the expectation and entitlement of wealth and success affects both the left and the right, there's only one side who decided to #MAGA.

And a lot (the vast majority?) of those people are economically displaced whites who either raised a family on industries that have left the country, or grew up in industry towns, expecting to be able to have the same kind of middle-class life with little to no effort put in. And now that they're expected to actually work their minds, and put in the effort to re-train themselves, they refuse and instead elect of fascist whose buttered tongue promised that life back to them.

[ItachiZaku]

I don't get it. Whats wrong with it?

It's terrible beer for terrible people.

[unfilteredJW]

Beer is simply that just beer

Fuck. This. Noise.

Peasant.

[Aggrophobic]

It's terrible beer for terrible people.

No, I get whats wrong with the beer.
The commercial was great though.

[idunnowatdo]

Fuck. This. Noise.

Peasant.

its just beer. That coming from someone that loves beer. clam your tits m8 :>

[Ryme]

People should boycott Budweiser because it's an absolutely trash beer, the advert was fine imo, just feels like it's cashing in the political climate which is a bit low I guess but nothing to get distraught over.

[Tinykong]

Bunch of beer snobs all claiming their entirely subjective opinion is better than other people's entirely subjective opinion. Always good for a lul.

[Waxmywand]

People still drink that cat piss?

[Deleted]

I'm triggered by the fact Americans still call Budweiser, beer. LOL

[Shadee]

But... The US was build on immigration.

Yeah and we decided that we only want the best and brightest now and not the dangerous and uneducated. Other countries only let certain people in but for some reason if the US doesn't let everyone in than people complain.

[McFuu]

While you're right that the expectation and entitlement of wealth and success affects both the left and the right, there's only one side who decided to #MAGA.

And a lot (the vast majority?) of those people are economically displaced whites who either raised a family on industries that have left the country, or grew up in industry towns, expecting to be able to have the same kind of middle-class life with little to no effort put in. And now that they're expected to actually work their minds, and put in the effort to re-train themselves, they refuse and instead elect of fascist whose buttered tongue promised that life back to them.

No, while the group you describe account for the majority of Trump voters. The Left still wants their free handouts and think that liberal arts degrees, protesting broccoli colors and other such non-sense is being a productive member of society.
What bothers me the most about the Left and it's push for "social change", IE free health care, free schools, citizen salaries. Honestly if people want these things they should immigrate to the countries that have them. A quick warning to them though, these countries aren't going to take you in unless you bring something to the table for them, usually some kind of MEST career.

Back to the point, both the right and left have forgotten what it means to be American. We work hard and reap the benefits of that work. Your neighbor doesn't owe you anything other than what they are willing to give to you. We arose from nothing, to the preeminent country on this planet through the hardwork and sacrifice of people, regardless of their country of origin, who wanted to make a better life for their children. That's what makes us America.

So while the right may hold on to this concept that America isn't great right now. The left won't come out and say it but want to change America to something else. How many socialist countries are world powers? None.

[Kathandira]

I dunno, I thought the commercial was pretty good. You only see the struggles the man went through to get here. But all those Bud drinking folks who see this as a bad thing are missing out on the after effects of him coming here. Opening a brewery, and employing thousands of Americans.

If we are in an America First environment, shouldn't people coming here to open their businesses, and employing out people be a good thing?

If we are concerned that immigrants are coming here and beginning empires, lets not forget that Trumps mother was an immigrant. If not for her being here, Trump could have been born in a different country. If that was the case, he wouldn't have been eligible for his presidency. Trump literally has immigration to thank for his career and his life.

[Rooflesstoofless]

Something tells me the people who actually consume Budweiser with any kind of regularity aren't going to be boycotting it over a commercial.

Seriously Americans?

You drink one of the worst beers ever made by humanity, yet this Commerical is the thing that makes you stop drinking it? Not the fact that it tastes terrible?

I actually got a good laugh out of this because it's true.

[Krigaren]

The majority of your screed was a lot of "me-first" BS described as anti-liberal claptrap. Hard work isn't what makes you more American than it makes any other hard-working group of people more German, or Croatian, or South African. Everyone works hard.

What bothers me about the right is it's push for "social regression", IE: a return to industrial America where the wealthy control everything, and people work only to escape starvation. Where labor as is only celebrated as a means of enriching the wealthy, where minorities and women knew their place, and where everyone just shuts up about wanting the world to evolve with the times, or become a better place.

Believe it or not, all of the things you say American either can't, or shouldn't become are things that it very easily can become and still be - brace for it - America. America doesn't cease to be America, nor does it cease to "be great" because it evolves to meet the needs of it's citizenry. The largest sacrifice in the process is your pride, and your mis-begotten belief that what made America great 200 years ago is still what will make us great today. Why should people have to leave their country, rather than work toward making it one they want it to be, one that makes a better life for themselves and their children? Isn't that what makes us American?

So while the right may hold on to this concept that America isn't great right now. The left won't come out and say it but want to change America to something else. How many socialist countries are world powers? None.

The left is very willing to say that America isn't great. Cause in a lot of ways, it isn't. The difference between the left and the right is the direction they want to go in to achieve that greatness. The right wants to go backward to a time that was terrible in almost every single way, but paved the way for what America is today, while the left wants to build on those successes and continue to evolve the country into something greater.

Does that mean a "socialist utopia". No. Your definition of "socialism" is very likely Marxist-Leninist, and the one that fits that bill that's a world power is China.

What the left advocates is Democratic Socialism. Plenty of world powers utilize aspects of it.

[Molis]

I thought it was a clever commercial, and a good message for legal immigration.

The beer however has some serious issues.

[jackofwind]

Bunch of beer snobs all claiming their entirely subjective opinion is better than other people's entirely subjective opinion. Always good for a lul.

Objectively it is a low quality beer.

[Xar226]

Why are people triggered? Honest answer? Because they're ignorant and proud of it.

This ad--like the vast majority of others, I would assume, given that they are spending around six million bucks a pop--was begun 8 months ago. This ad is about hard work, dedication and the American Dream. It would have been straight out of the Republican playbook not long ago. It has literally nothing to do with Trump or anything he has done. He was considered a laughing stock when this ad began production.

But of course most Americans can't be bothered to get even the most basic facts straight before running to Twitter to express their outrage, so somehow now it's all about Trump and a commentary on the Muslim ban and companies should stay out of politics ya know? (Unless they're funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to candidates through dark money; that's fantastic.)

There's no way to describe that other than being ignorant, so there's your answer.