Comments on: Tasteless Facebook Ad: Crosshairs on US Military Personnel http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/12/10/tasteless-facebook-ad-crosshairs-on-us-military-personnel/ Staying Out of the Cubicle: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Travel Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:45:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Why do you want to know my name? http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/12/10/tasteless-facebook-ad-crosshairs-on-us-military-personnel/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Why do you want to know my name? Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:19:01 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=641#comment-408 You complain about someone using a soldier's photograph to advertise a game where people pretend to kill someone but say nothing about those same soldiers killing real people in the real world. Let's not forget that the American state has - over the last two decades - killed hundreds of thousands - quite possibly millions - of Iraqis. That's disgusting, not some stupid advertisement for an infantile game. You complain about someone using a soldier’s photograph to advertise a game where people pretend to kill someone but say nothing about those same soldiers killing real people in the real world. Let’s not forget that the American state has – over the last two decades – killed hundreds of thousands – quite possibly millions – of Iraqis. That’s disgusting, not some stupid advertisement for an infantile game.

]]> By: Why do you want to know my nam http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/12/10/tasteless-facebook-ad-crosshairs-on-us-military-personnel/comment-page-1/#comment-1402 Why do you want to know my nam Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:19:00 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=641#comment-1402 You complain about someone using a soldier's photograph to advertise a game where people pretend to kill someone but say nothing about those same soldiers killing real people in the real world. Let's not forget that the American state has - over the last two decades - killed hundreds of thousands - quite possibly millions - of Iraqis. That's disgusting, not some stupid advertisement for an infantile game. You complain about someone using a soldier’s photograph to advertise a game where people pretend to kill someone but say nothing about those same soldiers killing real people in the real world. Let’s not forget that the American state has – over the last two decades – killed hundreds of thousands – quite possibly millions – of Iraqis. That’s disgusting, not some stupid advertisement for an infantile game.

]]> By: corky http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/12/10/tasteless-facebook-ad-crosshairs-on-us-military-personnel/comment-page-1/#comment-407 corky Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:06:47 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=641#comment-407 Have you thought of asking the other advertisers what they think of being placed near this ad? Maybe they think people will get hungry after killing soldiers. I think its a nasty tasteless ad, but then I think the other shoot em up games that have cartoonish soldiers dying after a really nice person has chosen to spend time trying to kill them are nasty as well. While the figures are more cartoonish, they flop down very convincingly, just like real dead people. Perhaps watching soldiers on the news not getting dead becomes too much like watching fake soldiers actually dying. I cant even imagine what a parent of a soldier would think of this, much less a parent of a soldier in a combat zone. Have you thought of asking the other advertisers what they think of being placed near this ad? Maybe they think people will get hungry after killing soldiers. I think its a nasty tasteless ad, but then I think the other shoot em up games that have cartoonish soldiers dying after a really nice person has chosen to spend time trying to kill them are nasty as well. While the figures are more cartoonish, they flop down very convincingly, just like real dead people. Perhaps watching soldiers on the news not getting dead becomes too much like watching fake soldiers actually dying. I cant even imagine what a parent of a soldier would think of this, much less a parent of a soldier in a combat zone.

]]> By: corky http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/12/10/tasteless-facebook-ad-crosshairs-on-us-military-personnel/comment-page-1/#comment-1401 corky Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:06:00 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=641#comment-1401 Have you thought of asking the other advertisers what they think of being placed near this ad? Maybe they think people will get hungry after killing soldiers. I think its a nasty tasteless ad, but then I think the other shoot em up games that have cartoonish soldiers dying after a really nice person has chosen to spend time trying to kill them are nasty as well. While the figures are more cartoonish, they flop down very convincingly, just like real dead people. Perhaps watching soldiers on the news not getting dead becomes too much like watching fake soldiers actually dying. I cant even imagine what a parent of a soldier would think of this, much less a parent of a soldier in a combat zone. Have you thought of asking the other advertisers what they think of being placed near this ad? Maybe they think people will get hungry after killing soldiers. I think its a nasty tasteless ad, but then I think the other shoot em up games that have cartoonish soldiers dying after a really nice person has chosen to spend time trying to kill them are nasty as well. While the figures are more cartoonish, they flop down very convincingly, just like real dead people. Perhaps watching soldiers on the news not getting dead becomes too much like watching fake soldiers actually dying. I cant even imagine what a parent of a soldier would think of this, much less a parent of a soldier in a combat zone.

]]> By: Dan Reich http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/12/10/tasteless-facebook-ad-crosshairs-on-us-military-personnel/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Dan Reich Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:13:50 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=641#comment-406 Other advertisers will be annoyed if someone makes a big deal about it. Otherwise, it will be brushed under the rug as one of those that just got through the cracks and where facebook will "fix" the problem. not likin' that ad one bit... Other advertisers will be annoyed if someone makes a big deal about it. Otherwise, it will be brushed under the rug as one of those that just got through the cracks and where facebook will “fix” the problem.

not likin’ that ad one bit…

]]> By: Dan Reich http://www.nathanlustig.com/2009/12/10/tasteless-facebook-ad-crosshairs-on-us-military-personnel/comment-page-1/#comment-1400 Dan Reich Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:13:00 +0000 http://www.nathanlustig.com/?p=641#comment-1400 Other advertisers will be annoyed if someone makes a big deal about it. Otherwise, it will be brushed under the rug as one of those that just got through the cracks and where facebook will "fix" the problem. not likin' that ad one bit... Other advertisers will be annoyed if someone makes a big deal about it. Otherwise, it will be brushed under the rug as one of those that just got through the cracks and where facebook will “fix” the problem.

not likin’ that ad one bit…

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