They have sonic weapons. They run over people with horses and armored vehicles.

Gotta clean and sterilize them.

Green lasers. Everybody should have one.

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I don’t care. You can have that last word you so desperately crave.

It’s not good enough to get me interested discussing it further with you. You just keep repeating the same dumb, boring question. You think it’s a gotcha, but you haven’t thought about it even slightly.

Not good enough. You haven’t even wondered why.

If you had ever done a modest amount of the hard, actual, honest work of examining positions other than the standard one issued by your government, you would already be asking better, more interesting questions. You think that’s the only one you need to ask, don’t you?

I know you haven’t put the work in, because I have. I don’t owe you a debate. I doubt you have ever even changed your mind. So why should I give you the fruits of my labor? They wrote books, after all. Have you got the guts to read them?

Every single time, you claimed. Cite your sources. Do the work or fuck off, lazy-ass.

Somebody needs to learn not to blindly believe a century of capitalist propaganda. At least Wikipedia cites sources.

You made the claim. You said every single time. Citation required.

Somebody needs to learn to use Wikipedia.

Communism is exactly the opposite of that. You’re thinking of late stage capitalism.

Just feed birds next to the showrooms.

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.