• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There’s a paywall, but let me guess- Somebody made a print ad with an image of the rolling countryside in Georgia, when they meant to use a photo of the rolling countryside of Georgia.

    There exist plenty of reasons to hate Trump and conservatives. It’s a bit of a blessing that they’re so incredibly stupid. But this is the sort of mistake I would make, so it feels like a glass houses situation.

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      3 months ago

      As a person in neither Georgia nor Georgia (nor the US at all), I agree that it seems like an easy mistake to make.

      But for anyone in Georgia or a neighboring state, it seems like something that should be pretty well known. Especially if you work in marketing.

      I’d normally expect these kinds of ads to be produced by the local party branch but this suggests that either the local Georgians don’t know there’s another Georgia, or the ads came straight out of the national HQ or Moscow.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Georgian (US) here. The state has nowhere that looks even slightly like the landscape pictured in the ad.

        This is about as close as we get (note how the mountains are forested, not grassy):

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          3 months ago

          On the one hand, it’s a multi-million dollar campaign for President of the United States.

          On the other hand, their target audience is not going to give one flying FUCK that the picture is wrong.

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            3 months ago

            Georgia is an important state. Any vote that is swayed by calling this out may be important

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      3 months ago

      Reader Mode usually works to bypass paywalls that just blur the text like that.

      Edit: oops I’ve removed the article text