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I hate summer school. it sucks beyond all reason. Thank you for understanding me.

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Ooh - I have one!

One of the ads I saw before watching 2 movies last month was one about "Little Deviants". It tries to sell a very boring-looking car (the Scion) by showing society as divided into 2 classes: the Sheeple, who look like sheep; and the Little Deviants, who gleefully kill and eat the Sheeples. The end of the commercial shows a Sheeple desperately running away from one of the Little Deviants, who has just killed all his companions, and looks to rescue to a Scion that just pulled up at the curb. The window opens, and another Little Deviant leans out the window, and eats most of the Sheeple, flinging his dismembered head out onto the front of the car to become a hood ornament.

Toyota also has a video game to go along with the commercial, which explains further that the "Sheeple" have "spread their gray disease" throughout the world, and that your task is to kill as many of them as possible (although they don't seem to be doing anybody any harm). Then you use their body parts as equipment. Eventually, you use their blood to produce new Scions.

I know that comparing somebody to Hitler is considered bad form, but really - they're begging for it.

Toyota says, in response to questions, that "People that find it offensive are not our target."

I googled for comments on this ad just now, and the only people I found who were upset about it were, sadly, right-wing conservatives:http://www.rightwingnews.co...

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