Yep. My dad believes you can cure a venomous snake bite, ANY species, by giving yourself an electric shock, preferably from a spark plug. Works equally effectively (it doesn’t work, don’t bother) for literally any insect bite. He also believes witches are eating babies in the forest nearby. Needless to say, he doesn’t understand evolution either. He falls for scams left and right, always has.

Really sweet guy though.

Well, that’s all water under the bridge now.

They just won’t let you

Thanks, I needed that.

I was really hoping they’d be refusing to comply with unjust laws. If they wanted ways to look like the good guys, these days we’ve got plenty.

None of those were adjectives.

Oh I certainly wasn’t proposing a practical transition method away from it. Nor do I think our authorities would willingly give up that gravy train. I’m just saying it’s an offense against freedom, privacy, and informed consent. Frankly, aadvertising threatens the stability of civilization itself, and it must be reigned in to ensure any kind of positive future. But a near total ban would be even better.

I dont.

Your reaction to that was not to consider a single word I said, but to take offense.

The advertising industry had their chance to run an ethical business model.

Now they have their own corporate spy agencies and propaganda networks.

You mean that local mom and pop store that was briefly allowed to exist to maintain the illusion before they got crushed by a corporate juggernaut?

When a society allows itself to be psychologically manipulated in such an all pervasing manner, the people participate in their own subjugation and call it freedom.

There exists one of the most powerful groups on the planet who considers it their right to sneak inside your mind to twist your decision making ability to whatever amoral ends they like. They pump their filth into your head your every waking hour, and they’ll get into your dreams once they have the technology. Rather than revulsion and disgust, your reaction to this is “ok, but maybe just a little less than they do now.”

What a surprise.

No. There is nowhere in the world more sacred than our own minds, and no one else has the right to worm their way inside, en masse, to alter them as they will.

Haha what? I’m not burning billboards and slaughtering CEOs. I’m just sick to death of all these ads. Advertising is a distributed global brainwashing campaign, by the wealthy, against the working class. They don’t hire psychologists to exploit our lizard brains for no reason, and that’s why it needs to be outlawed.

Oh they had roadside billboards in 1950. And they were a blight back then. Advertising is a cancer.

They can put up signs inside their business windows. That’s plenty. Everything else is a blight.

That is still no excuse.

The minimum wage was not established to decide who is poor and who is not, but rather to eliminate poverty as a concept.

I sure don’t see no black sheriff.

I’m holding no stocks or crypto. I’ve got a few hundred of bonds I probably ought to sell. I liquidated my 401k and IRA a couple months back. Big penalty, no regrets.

Damn. Wish I could not buy his shit even harder.

Or corner the Russian market with on that runs on Mazut.