Whether to breast feed or not is about as interesting as debating whole milk verses 2%. Breast feeding in public is a non-issue. The only issue involving breasts that I care about is breast cancer or any other cancer. Breasts are not an issue they are merely a body part.
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The reason I responded to your comment that way was because you chimed in to a discussion just to affirm that the topic of said discussion didn’t interest you in any way. A position you just reaffirmed here.
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Was this intentional too?
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What would this country come to if concerned citizens didn’t bravely stand up to mothers nursing in political ads…you know, the real bullies. /s 
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Yes, thank you for affirming the thing that I affirmed. Perhaps we can continue affirm our affirmations until we bore ourselves into a coma.
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(from:
http://www.openphotographyforums.com/art_MICHAEL_STONES_001.php
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Thank you wimmin everywhere for keeping it real, and keeping the kids fed.
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Hey, dood, nobody puts baby in the corner!
It is not only cute and mildly creepy, it is freaking PAINFUL!
Good afternoon gentlemen,
I too am supportive of the general thrust of your ${Breastfeeding:good} post, however in order to better understand or clarify the context of this specific and repeated point …
and
… could you please provide links to your vocal and public objections to other ‘planned and cynical’ uses of props in political advertising, since it seems obvious that breastfeeding could not be the only example of this style of advertising to trigger you. Candidates posing with firearms springs to mind as an easy and obvious candidate which you will have presumably previously shown disdain for, but I’m sure there are plenty of others that have failed to meet your rigorous standards.
Thank you
Concerned Citizens Against Planned and Cynical Use of Props in Political Advertising
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ROFL. That seems like a real-life variant of this
“Every time you ask Palin a question, a turkey dies”
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A noble attempt at hyperbole and snark. Would that I could oblige you in linking to videos, but I’m currently in a one party country that blocks access to youtube and other videos. There does seem to be a bit of cynicism/hypocrisy/whatever in objecting to a minor thing in a political video I’m not allowed to view. But you seem familiar enough with what I’m talking about and I doubt seriously you’d want to see actual links.
Call it trigger if it makes you feel good, but at most it evokes from me a weary sigh when I am home and do see ads that feature something I support, but is being used in a cynical way. Guy in a uniform, woman in a wheelchair, farmer inspecting crops, etc. In and of themselves they probably shaped the candidate in a positive way. Same as being a breastfeeding mother. But highlighting them for political purposes makes me weary of the cynical calculus of politics that says it’s how you get votes. I have to sigh again when people cheer it on.
Is it a rigorous standard? No. It doesn’t disqualify someone in my mind. I might even thing positively of them while still being annoyed at being manipulated.
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Would that they only talk. You’re right that it’s too boring and ineffective.
If you’ll note my questions and many examples were around candidates doing something that they could do, but others could not even if they had the exact same views and policies. My question was should we think more or less of one candidate over another? It appears we are supposed to or why would it be in the ad? And that makes me uncomfortable. It turns an election into “America’s Got Talent: Election Edition.” Or at least more so than it already is.
And I may just be a cranky dude, because I also get annoyed by some stuff all candidates can do. Flag waving, kissing babies, etc. Come to think of it, I dislike 99% of all political ads.
Time to go shoo some kids off the lawn.
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Haven’t been around too many breastfeeding babies? They simply aren’t that patient.
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Only if we are interested figuring out what kind of stupid it is.
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Sigh. You seem to have missed the joke. I was being admonished for “policing” by disagreeing. I found the irony funny, not terrible. I’m also amused by your example of growing up.
Got to thinking some more on your comment. Is it possible to only have candidates talk? I agree with you it’s unlikely to happen. But I started wondering. Let me try an experiment:
“Give me liberty or give me _____.”
“Four score and ______.”
“We have nothing to fear but ___.”
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but ______”
“I have a ____.”
And so on.
It’s the rare person that can’t fill in the blanks and more. They can tell you the person, the context, etc. Because they were powerful words. Powerful ideas. And what was the person doing when they spoke the words? Standing there doing nothing but be the leader we needed.
It may be that such powerful words and ideas are impossible to put into a political ad. But it shouldn’t stop us from hoping. And when the words are right, what use are props?
Thank you for making me think.
Babies contribute nothing to this country. I’d be more impressed if she were sharing her breast milk with some beleagured steelworkers or disabled vets.
In some sort of container, obviously. I don’t mean that I want to see her actually breastfeeding steelworkers.
Which isn’t to say that I’d have a problem with her breastfeeding steelworkers, in public and on camera if she sees fit, I just mean that women breastfeeding blue collar heroes isn’t some weird fetish that I have.
Wow. This is a really nuanced issue.
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Holy fucksocks, this thread:
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Hey, dudes gotta dude!
(Which means that mansplainers gotta mansplain. 
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