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reversebackwards t1_jad71vy wrote

There's more to the story of this ad than the problematic Italian Indian situation.

Keep America Beautiful, the nonprofit who made this ad, was started by beverage can manufacturers and gets lots of funding from other companies whose products become this litter: McDonalds, Coke, Pepsi, Nestle, Phillip Morris, etc

They have a long history of working against legislation that would make industry responsible for litter such as bottle return bills and shifting public opinion toward individual responsibility and thereby away from industry responsibility.

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Font_Fetish t1_jad60ao wrote

I love the idea that they would have just started abbreviating Bear Attack for this one article, sacrificing a ton of clicks by hiding the 2 most interesting words in the title behind an abbreviation no one knows.

That being said, my first thought was also Bear Attack due to the context.

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Capitain_Collateral t1_jad51bs wrote

She requested vouchers at a time when she thought travel could still occur in a timely manner, but at a time that was currently unknown - as she did still want to travel.

Once it became clear that travel to the destination could not be done in a timely manner she requested the refund as she is legally entitled to as BA could not deliver the sold service.

BA, taking a leaf out of the ‘legal shmegal!’ School of thought, declined.

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