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Bumper Sticker / Sign - Follow up

Posted by $ Thoritsu 4 years, 11 months ago to Business
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This is a follow up.

Zazzle - boycott:
I tried to get this done on Zazzle. They claim it violates their policy. Nothing related to BLM can be printed, except supportive statements!!! Nothing. I made an argument noting that my poster was not in favor of racism. They won't even print "all lives matter'. I did a pretty good job defending, but they are programmed. A little amazing to me that they print all kinds of other argumentative stuff. I have decided to boycott Zazzle. Hope you follow suit.

VistaPrint - already fulfilled and shipped my order! Nice Dutch people...

I don't know how widespread these signs are, but around here there are a lot of these black signs: https://www.etsy.com/listing/83156016...
or
https://www.amazon.com/Believe-Metal-...

I really want to make an alternative version and/or bumper sticker:

"Science is real but AGW is not science
CO2 - 6.2%; Clouds - 15.5%; Water - 38.9%
Black Lives Matter but racism is not the issue
2,925/2,600/234 vs 3,315/2,677/514
No human is illegal but humans behave illegally
So we eliminate tracking sex offenders?
Let’s not replace old religious dogma with a new religion of misplaced outrage.
If you want to discuss these rationally, I welcome it."

Any of you smart people here know how/where to get these made? The one I have done in MS Word is nicer and colorful, but formatting is limited here. Comments are of course welcome.


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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Powerpoint for text based formatting with nice colors, etc.

    If you can color laser print on Plastic Overhead Laser sheets, then adhere to your own magnet or rubber cement if you want permanent... LOL
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I’m good at drinking beer, and will buy it just to get others to participate. Sounds like we think alike!
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  • Posted by $ DriveTrain 4 years, 10 months ago
    Wow, what a shock! I hadn't been back there in a long time, but that just rankles. I'll leave what I have up there - if they have to sell a few Laissez Faire items and I make some cash from it, it's still using the enemy to promote the good. But I'm otherwise done with Zazzle.

    Another wrinkle - pun if you want one: I haven't attempted to make anything new for a couple of years, but something I did notice is that a couple of my own shirts arrived with substandard silkscreening that started peeling off after a single washing. Since I had another of the same shirt made a year or so earlier which had normal, durable silkscreening, I'm thinking either their quality is inconsistent as a matter of course or the substandard one was manufactured by a worker hostile to the message who intentionally messed up the process to make it deteriorate more quickly.

    But... VistaPrint. Thanks for the tip, I'll try them next.

    Has anybody had any ideological-exclusion experiences with CafePress? That's a service virtually identical to Zazzle, and I was able to pull up a page with a bunch of variations on "All Lives Matter," so presumably they don't discriminate:
    https://www.cafepress.com/+all-lives-...

    Again, thanks for the heads-up Thoritsu, because my intent had been to go back to Zazzle to get these new ones made. You saved me a whole lot of frustration and anger. I owe you beer.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have a "Make Orwell Fiction Again" hat.

    Not sure people feel bad about or threatened by others "Gultching"...yet. France sure did a few years ago!
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  • Posted by NealS 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm thinking about putting the "Atlas Shrugged - No Longer Fiction" bumper sticker back on my Corvette.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Legalize Freedom" confuses the crap out of people, and I get a lot of questions.

    An Indian guy came by while I was playing tennis at the local high school, and asked to take a picture of my truck. He said reading Ayn Rand caused him to come to the US, and were responsible for his success.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oooohhh, Adobe. I view that company of trying too hard to protect too little value. I'm all in on Capitalism, but think I'm done with Photoshop now.
    It seems like a drug addiction.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Complete control would be easier where the current population is low - Saba and Statia. Those populations are low because the islands aren't suited to large populations. They are also in the Caribbean hurricane zone. Both are volcanic islands that are dormant. Dormant is not extinct. Montserrat's volcano was dormant for centuries but erupted in '95 destroying its capital city. So I wouldn't choose either.
    Sint Maarten shares an island with the French colony St Martin and it is in the hurricane zone. That would make it less desirable to me.
    Bonaire has the lowest population density of the remaining islands and along with Aruba and Curacao is not in the hurricane zone.
    Bonaire is a "special municipality" and is subject to some administration by Dutch central government and some adminitration by local councils.
    Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao are close to the coast of Venezuela. That could be positive or negative.
    Aruba and Curacao are "constituent countries" of the Netherlands. The Dutch King is head of state, but the local Prime Minister is head of the government.
    If I was given any one of the islands as my kingdom, I would choose Curacao. It is the largest land area, the most varied economy of the 3 islands, a large port, and has an oil refinery on the island. I think my 2nd choice would be Bonaire, but I haven't visited Aruba, so I would need to do more research on it.
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  • Posted by Katrina41 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I use Photoshop for all my stickers, posters, prints, book covers, cartoons. They all print out very nicely on my Canon. Laminating is expensive, so I use clear contact paper. It lasts quite a long time.
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  • Posted by Katrina41 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Assuming complete control, St. Maartens. Taken as is right now, Statia. Of the islands, it has the smallest population and the most useable land.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Their specific statement was "any play on BLM, detracts from reducing the systemic racism that exists..."

    I think they view the others as "harmless", but show their colors on this one.

    I also bought "Legalize Freedom" and "Who is John Galt" stickers, and they are on my truck.
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 4 years, 11 months ago
    I ordered some Zazzle stickers around four years ago:
    "Who is John Galt? Read Atlas Shrugged"
    "Socialism: You Make It, They Take It"
    "The Global Warming Scam: Just Another Path to Socialist Control"
    "If You Can't Feed 'Em, Don't Breed 'Em"
    "DIRECTIVE 10-289" (including the Obama logo in the background)

    These appear to still be available; however, I will proceed with your Zazzle boycott as it relates to your recent discoveries.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately, that will not inform many people's decisions.

    How about:
    "Your own choice, or their choices?
    Election 2020"
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Really? Word used to be so simple. Over complicated now.
    Publisher looks like a sledgehammer, when I just need a tack. I used PowerPoint in the end.

    I just bought (yet another) version of MS Office. Didn't come with Publisher.
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