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Ouroboros24 on 22 September 2016
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JWeinCom said:
Ouroboros24 said:

The whole video was started with the message of voting and it's importance.  Then there was a beat change, a swerve of focus. At most the message was loaded.  But ultimately the message was an anti-trump message.  The anti-trump message wasn't supposed to be their message, but rather the importance of voting.  Which at the end of the video was second fiddle to an anti-trump message.  If the point of this video was an anti-trump campaign, then go at it at full speeds with no deviation.  Riding the back of voting importance is a slap to it's target audience and is clearly just there to hide what the focus of the video was for from the start.

What did you think their message was, since it's so clear? 

The importance of voting was not their message.  The importance of voting against Trump was their message.  They called him a racist that threatens the fabric of the country, referred to a potential Trump presidency as a nightmare, mentioned specific Trump stances they disagreed with (immigration/gun laws), an so on.  There wasn't much subtlety, hiding, or trickery involved here.  Just because they didn't yell "fuck Trump" at the very begining of the video doesn't mean it was "supposed" to be about anything else.

Well I'm glad you see it that way.  Just goes to show you know what you're talking about.  The thing is, not everyone is going to see that.  And honestly, I disagree with you about there not being trickery or subtlety in this video.  Because there is subtlety in what it's saying.  It's just that their subtlety is poorly disguised and sinking like a lead pipe.  If they were to put out a companion site that wasn't "http://www.savetheday.vote" or the sub header being "Save the day.  Vote.", then I would agree with you in that it was a simple anti trump message.  But as it is, there is an underlying sense that they want to use the topic of vote to push their anti-trump message and that alone is what makes the video disingenous.