• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Advertising is one of the most prolific environmental pollutants of economic activity, and needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s not “advertising.” That’s a euphemism. It’s #CapitalistPropaganda. Fucking straight up social manipulation and we’re fire-hosed with it from the day we’re born. It’s the prime reason we can no longer organize collective responses to capitalism.

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      8 hours ago

      Nah, as noxious as it is, too many people still consider smoking socially acceptable.

      Advertising should be as socially acceptable as ripping random people’s eyes off with a rusty spoon, shitting in the socket, and charging them for it.

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      8 hours ago

      i love smoking but hate advertisements. am I that bad? I put an ad blocker on everything and anything that blocks ad blockers or requires me to pay to not see ads doesnt get used

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        8 hours ago

        Smoking is pretty bad, yes, but advertising is orders of magnitude worse. On a whole other league. Even worse than speaking in the theatre.