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bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 03:15 PM Jan 2022

"Don't look up!"

Should be plastered on cars, walls, billboards, bulletin boards.

It should be written in the dirt found on the back of trailers and any other surface that will provide the opportunity.

It should be on baseball caps, tshirts, grocery bags.

It should be scratched into the sand at the beach and written in chalk on the sidewalk.

It should be printed up on business cards and left between the pages of airline magazines, on the counters on diners and on the seats of trains, buses and cabs.

It should become as ubiquitous a phrase as "kilroy was here."

It should become a movement to expose and educate....

And while we're doing that we should commandeer BRANDON 2024! as a slogan...

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"Don't look up!" (Original Post) bluecollar2 Jan 2022 OP
I don't think they would understand Don't Look Up. But doc03 Jan 2022 #1
I don't think they would understand Don't Look Up. But doc03 Jan 2022 #2
Many won't understand bluecollar2 Jan 2022 #3
get a cluster standing in a knot, look up, and point to the sky. kiri Jan 2022 #9
Both is good. IrishAfricanAmerican Jan 2022 #5
Disagree. Wuddles440 Jan 2022 #6
Don't look up Achilleaze Jan 2022 #4
Honestly relayerbob Jan 2022 #7
If it irritates you bluecollar2 Jan 2022 #11
In what way? relayerbob Jan 2022 #22
If it irritates you bluecollar2 Jan 2022 #27
At best, there will be zero impact, relayerbob Jan 2022 #28
Noted...n/t bluecollar2 Jan 2022 #30
Honestly I want to hear it a million more times. Tommymac Jan 2022 #16
Me too! That and "Let's go Darwin!" Scrivener7 Jan 2022 #18
I'm fine with Let's go, Darwin relayerbob Jan 2022 #23
When they chant "Don't look up!" it sounds A LOT like "Stop the steal!" FailureToCommunicate Jan 2022 #8
I thought it sounded like "Lock her Up" n/t mtngirl47 Jan 2022 #21
Maybe Lets Go Darwin as a slogan as well irisblue Jan 2022 #10
Lol. I said the same thing. Scrivener7 Jan 2022 #19
I have no idea what it means. So what's the point? MAJones Jan 2022 #12
The fact that you have no idea what it means bluecollar2 Jan 2022 #15
Perhaps you are not the only person in the world? Scrivener7 Jan 2022 #20
It should be a notification on people's phones IronLionZion Jan 2022 #13
Wouldn't it be like teaching 48656c6c6f20 Jan 2022 #14
We're not looking to communicate with that section of society bluecollar2 Jan 2022 #17
If they haven't decided by now 48656c6c6f20 Jan 2022 #25
Ok...n/t bluecollar2 Jan 2022 #26
For just $1.67 per day... Thunderbeast Jan 2022 #24
I'm watching it Tickle Jan 2022 #29
I'd like to know what your impression of it is....n/t. bluecollar2 Jan 2022 #31

doc03

(35,321 posts)
2. I don't think they would understand Don't Look Up. But
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 03:24 PM
Jan 2022

Brandon 2024 is better. They could watch that movie and not get the point.

kiri

(794 posts)
9. get a cluster standing in a knot, look up, and point to the sky.
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 04:26 PM
Jan 2022

1970's? It was a joke to get a cluster of people standing in a knot on a street corner or campus quad; they would all murmur, look up, and point to the sky.

The goal was to see how many people would stop, stare, ask "What's going on?" Good, clean fun.

relayerbob

(6,543 posts)
7. Honestly
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 04:22 PM
Jan 2022

I’m already sick of hearing and seeing it, it’s not much better than a left wing “maga” slogan, or let’s go, Brandon. We need action, not cutesy movie references.

relayerbob

(6,543 posts)
22. In what way?
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 06:32 PM
Jan 2022

I've been on the pro-environment bandwagon since reading Silent Spring in the late 60s. How about you?

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
27. If it irritates you
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:29 PM
Jan 2022

Then imagine the effect it will have on those less informed than you...

As to my pro-environment credentials...not the point.

relayerbob

(6,543 posts)
28. At best, there will be zero impact,
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:40 PM
Jan 2022

At worst, it will be a total turn-off to those who need to be paying attention. It is as immature as Let’s Go, Brandon, juvenile “coding”, for what will be interpreted as funk off, idiots, which is actually how I’m seeing it used. Sorry, but I do not support acting like the other side, no matter how tempting, nor how self-satisfying it may feel to some people.

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
16. Honestly I want to hear it a million more times.
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 05:27 PM
Jan 2022

The more the Left pushes back with ANY kind of meme the better.

Like it or not.

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
15. The fact that you have no idea what it means
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 05:25 PM
Jan 2022

Is precisely the point.

It's intended to provoke you into looking into it.

 

48656c6c6f20

(7,638 posts)
14. Wouldn't it be like teaching
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 05:24 PM
Jan 2022

Shakespeare to a fence post? Those republiQans refuse to hear a message even if it could save their lives. Wasted effort.

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
17. We're not looking to communicate with that section of society
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 05:28 PM
Jan 2022

It's a given that cause is lost...we're looking to get at the 40% that aren't Democrats or Republicans...

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