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Corporate is now fully supportive of the LGBTQIA+ community*†! Now receive limited edition items that look, feel, sound, smell, and/or taste exactly like the original product, but with a rainbow stamped on it!

* While supplies last, each set sold separately, batteries not included.
Must be 18 years or older or have permission from a parent or guardian.
† Does not apply to the Middle East.
 

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Haha, I was sitting here and considering what this was supposed to mean for a minute. It is weird that the capitalists that were historically portrayed as oppressors of the little man now market themselves with these symbols/movements.
 
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Haha, I was sitting here and considering what this was supposed to mean for a minute. It is weird that the capitalists that were historically portrayed as oppressors of the little man now market themselves with these symbols/movements.
Corporations will use rainbows for marketing to try and increase profit whole simultaneously using said profit to fund anti-gay bills, conversion therapy and whatever else. Capitalism is fucking shameless.
 

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Corporations will use rainbows for marketing to try and increase profit whole simultaneously using said profit to fund anti-gay bills, conversion therapy and whatever else. Capitalism is fucking shameless.
I never heard of this, but it might be true. It is the caducean mercuriall game they play. Play both sides of the argument and win.
 

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Under hegemonical theory with the support of coporate 'the community' is not a sub-culture but the dominant one. Never looked at it from that perspective.
 

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