Mercedes uses mass murderer in ad! WTF?

My wife had the Mercedes before I met her. I fly the American flag, with the Gadsden flag under it. And, I pay taxes in spite of Oblabla.

i bet you wear a cross

That guy has nothing on the Nazis. You know the OWNERS of Mercedes?

I hope this hurts them bad enough to make them remember their mistake. It probably wont hurt them too bad even if sales in America go in the shitter, because most their sales are European and middle east. This is truly bigger than Netflix.

Brilliant! My thought exactly

They used to say "there is no such thing as bad press", but if that was true, I don't think it is now. This pissed off a lot of people. If you read the article, you see they apoligized, but not too many people think that covers it. This was just a stupid move by a big company.

Blip in the radar man. You old fucks (no disrespect when I say that,) aren't realizing that the level of information coming in and out of the medias sphere of influence makes this a non-issue; 10-20 years ago this would be front page controversy on every major media outlet. We process to many "stories" for this to matter to anyone but the well-read web surfer. This will not hinder Mr. BigPayCheck from promising his wife the added heated leather steering-wheel and park-assist.

You stupid old man, I bet you villify Hitler too eh? HEIL HITLER YOU MOTHER FUCKER!

You dumbasses complain about communist cuba yet love all the cheap shit you get from china.. way to go hypocrisy!

Oh wait, we make money from China so lets not worry about them.

The pissed off people are a minority to the majority of Mercedes owners that only care about 3 things: Status, Money, Power.

Wrong! Mostly I wear shirts that show I am a gun rights supporter, and an Obama detractor. I get stopped in stores all the time by people that want to shake my hand and talk about my shirts. The most popular would be the one that just says "I'M SMARTER THAN THE PRESIDENT". That one gets thumbs up everywhere I go.

A proud gun owner who thinks the leader is a fool and want to use his guns in the defence of the people - are you sure you are not Che?

Now that they have your attention...

Ten years you'll forget all about this ad. Then one day you will feel like starting a revolution, as images of rebels fly past your mind, including Che. Then it happens: you want to buy a Mercedes to show your rebellion.

Get it?

Either that or Mercedes is saying they are moving to Cuba after TSHTF.

Who gives a fuck?

Stupid advertisements are a dime a dozen. Who has the energy to care about this meaningless controversy with everything going on in the world?

Yea, 20 years ago the media wasn't controlled by the liberal progressives. You could actually get a true news story. The media also researched stories instead of regurgitating the bullshit pumped out by the government. This will hurt the Mercedes dealers in Florida. There are a lot of Cubans in Florida, and they will certainly not buy Mercedes.

I have never killed a man for fun, so I am pretty sure I am not Che. But I definately would use my guns to defend my home and family.

I don't drive foriegn cars, and I don't honor mass murderers.
If the embargo is lifted, maybe Mercedes will go into Cuba, that is their decision and if the embargo is lifted, shouldn't bother anyone.

It's all about character. If the company has no more character than using repulsive people in their ads, I do not want to support them.

Didn't they say the same thing about Saddam, Bin Hiden, Gadaffi? I get tired of reading revisionist BS from the Puppet Masters. He was a threat to them so they got rid of him and created a BS propaganda story to keep him a hero to some while a murderer to others. Classic Divide and Conquer. Everything in our history has been rewritten. Do you think Che or whatever puppet they used has real power? If the name or person does have power, then people have been brainwashed by BS.

Some wear Hitler attire as well. It keeps people divided and it was all invented by the Puppet Masters. They change countries by illusions and propaganda. They created the society of hate instead of the society of Love. Once you see the game it is easy to free the mind.

Peace to you friend

I know a man that was there. His best friend was one of the soldiers that captured Che. These are people that knew Che, and Fidel. The man I know was one of the lucky ones that escaped Cuba in '59. He is still one of the most wanted men in Cuba. Castro will never forget, and never forgive. These guys lost a lot of friends and family. This is not propaganda, it is true history. There are a lot of books available on the subject, some of them are true, but some are written with an agenda. After all that America did to these people, they still love us and are glad to call America home. They are more patriotic Americans than most of the people born here.

Lol some people have already taken the p*ss out of you for this reply but I won't, because I meant for it to be sad, and if you can't tell, I largely agree with this analysis, even to the degree where unlike most I admit being "programmed" by the cultural memes. I still think for myself though in sorting through them, and I don't follow a specific leader, but I have no choice but to operate within this environment and deal with mostly bad info. I just hope your sadness comes from compassion and not judgement.

In order to understand the disaffected youth, you only have to Imagine what it is like to have been born into this world after 1980. To have been raised with no expectation of a future, and then to learn as you grow up that everything you HAD been taught was a lie. Everywhere you look, disinfo countering disinfo, selling you products, every form of trust abused. We are told that our own government (parent) is trying to kill us. If we do come out of this spiral ok, my entire generation and the next will likely have a kind of PTSD.

Under those conditions you really can't blame us for being ignorant, because paradoxically ignorance is actually the best strategy for success (sick people for a sick society). If I want to have a family some day with a white picket fence, live the american dream, I would HAVE to live in ignorance. It is the price of admission.

All of this is irrelevant to the facts of Che though, what he did or did not do, and from my perspective those facts have been lost, because my sense of trust in authority has been lost, and with it goes any "objective" historical narrative no matter what the source. Without the capacity to trust "experts" who contradict each other, and In the absence of direct experience, I have to treat every account as fictional, and just pick my favorite story. Sad is a massive understatement. Fucking CIA....

Lol some people have already taken the p*ss out of you for this reply but I won't, because I meant for it to be sad, and if you can't tell, I largely agree with this analysis, even to the degree where unlike most I admit being "programmed" by the cultural memes. I still think for myself though in sorting through them, and I don't follow a specific leader, but I have no choice but to operate within this environment and deal with mostly bad info. I just hope your sadness comes from compassion and not judgement.

In order to understand the disaffected youth, you only have to Imagine what it is like to have been born into this world after 1980. To have been raised with no expectation of a future, and then to learn as you grow up that everything you HAD been taught was a lie. Everywhere you look, disinfo countering disinfo, selling you products, every form of trust abused. We are told that our own government (parent) is trying to kill us. If we do come out of this spiral ok, my entire generation and the next will likely have a kind of PTSD.

Under those conditions you really can't blame us for being ignorant, because paradoxically ignorance is actually the best strategy for success (sick people for a sick society). If I want to have a family some day with a white picket fence, live the american dream, I would HAVE to live in ignorance. It is the price of admission.

All of this is irrelevant to the facts of Che though, what he did or did not do, and from my perspective those facts have been lost, because my sense of trust in authority has been lost, and with it goes any "objective" historical narrative no matter what the source. Without the capacity to trust "experts" who contradict each other, and In the absence of direct experience, I have to treat every account as fictional, and just pick my favorite story. Sad is a massive understatement. Fucking CIA....


I was not being judgmental, what is sad is the education system that doesn't tell kids the truth. It is not education, just indoctrination. They have rewritten history to suit their agenda. And, you are right about the generations born after 1980. You really have been short changed. When I was a kid, we were told how much better the future would be. We heard about flying cars, and skyscrapers with garages on every level. All we really got was hope and change. Now we just hope for some change. I raised my kids to believe that this is not how it will end, but it will take a lot of work to get us back on track. But they also know that bad thing could happen at any minute. They are all preppers like me. We are prepared for what ever comes. I do regret tht the younger people will not see the blind optimism that my generation grew up with. I'm sorry that we didn't leave you a better world. We should have stopped the progressive changes that started over a hundred years ago. I hope it is not too late now to recover the great world we had 50 years ago.

Exactly.

Cuban-Americans hate him because these so called "Cubans" where the elite of Cuba during Bautista. They held almost all of the country's wealth, all of the land, etc.

And remember, Che Guevara did not stay in Cuba to to reign and get rich. He believed in the cause that everyone should be equal. He despised Soviet type of communism.


I am not a communist, I believe in that an ideal system would be the middle ground of capitalism and socialism, but nonetheless, Che was an admirable person.

I knew a man that knew a man that knew a man, blah blah blah. How about Gitmo, Abu Graib, Prison Industrial Complex, Jacobo Arbenz, Salvador Allende, Pinochet...

I can go on and on.

Che was a moron who grew to popular for his own good and was offed by the beard.

Maybe they thought it would go over well with 0bama and not have to worry about any of those nasty 'recalls'...:)

No, he was offed by Cuban freedom fighters that caught him in So. America, trying to stir up another revolution.

You might be on to something there.

0bama had a picture of him hanging in his campaign headquarters last go around.. maybe Benz didn't know all that was suppose to be a secret.....:)

Mercedes knows their up-and-coming market. My parents drive a Mercedes, so every time I see one coming up the street, I look to see who's driving. Most of the time, it's a young Asian or sometimes a black. It's also occasionally a teen-ager (driving daddy's car, I assume). There are far more young non-white people driving that brand now than older white people, like my parents.

Just my two cents.