• MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world
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    I don’t want any crass, but I feel like commercials are brain rapee, brainwashing.

    This should need your permission.

    That’s all it is. It’s pure and simple. It’s brainwashing. How many times you have to see a coke commercial. You know coke exists. If you want to get it, you’ll get it. How many times you have to see McDonald’s commercial. If you eat that crap, you know it exists. Go eat it.

    They spent that money that they were not advertising on either making the product better or or on their employees, Our lives will be much better.

    I’ve generally stayed away from commercials since approximately 2007.

    I cringe when I hear one or see one now. It’s so ridiculous and over the top.

    One caught me by surprise yesterday when I was watching a video in Cognito mode about Capital One.

    Oh, please use our credit card. You can help your daughter become better at hockey and you can attend her games. Please use our credit card.

    Simply pulling at your emotions. Say you’re a middle class family and you can’t afford to go to the game sometimes, but oh, you can put it on your credit card and be a better dad

    Fuck you city bank.

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      I feel like advertisers and capitalism are so gross, they’ve poisoned the whole concept.

      I don’t think there’s anything innately wrong or violent to put up a flyer that says like “I’m starting a frisbee club. We’re meeting Saturdays at Noon in the park”. That’s an ad. But it’s a whole other beast from ads that track you. Or ads that try to make you feel insecure or inadequate.

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        That’s simply informational. Ads that try to actively get your attention to change your mind and get you to do something, that’s what’s evil. It’s brainwashing, pure and simple. Plus they’re a waste of valuable time.

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        You know where capitalism should be applied? Immigration.

        We should be having governments tripping over themselves to bring people into their country semi-permanently.

        I think, in an ironic twist, we’d all be living in socialist utopias.

        Not like, Trump’s gold card. I mean like actually trying to attract and retain talent the same way employers do. High quality affordable healthcare. Paid time off. Work/life balance. Exceptional pay.

        Leaving your country for another should be no different than switching employers and moving to your new job. Relocation stipends and all.

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      I’m lovin’ it. You’re having it your way, and where’s the beef? You’re everywhere you want to be.

      But what’s in your wallet?

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    Advertizing should be illegal. It’s visual pollution and makes people less comfortable in every environment they are in.

    Amazon should be “nationalized” by the UN or EU, and then ran as THE global marketplace app.

    If you want to find a product or see advertisements for products you can go to that specific tool and find what you need. And then we can ban all advertisements outside that one tool.

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    I don’t get it. Is it a comparison with Neo (and Matrix is a commercial film).

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        This article, even as a satire, marginalizes aphantasiacs and gives platform to have our valuable insights drowned out by mockery from within. I have literally watched it happen dozens of times online and IRL. It’s half the reason I was chased off of reddit.

        The bigotry gets to the point that it is social violence despite peer reviewed studies that have repeatedly shown that people with no visual imagery are not affected by tactics that are designed to manipulate visual imagery

        If it’s not controversial to say that a deaf man is immune to verbal insults, IT FUCKING SHOULD BE CONTROVERSIAL TO SAY PEOPLE WITH NO VISUAL IMAGERY ARE IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA

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            Clearly a violation of rule 1 that has been reported, and when no action is taken, you will see why you are no better than reddit

            Worse even, because I expected more out of you

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                You just can’t stop, can you? It’s literally impossible for you to not harass people.

                And again, note that the mods just don’t care…

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                  Seems like you’re blowing 3 mild replies out of proportion. Kind of like your initial response to this article.