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America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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I'm an American and I also have an unfavorable view of the USA
Don't get me wrong though, I don't hate America. I'm not unhappy in America. My day-to-day life in America is not bad at all
It's just, there are a lot of idiots here and it's exhausting being surrounded by them
Like I turn on my TV and I see a commercial for "Patriot Glasses". They are, "Tactical Sunglasses" and the advertisement claims that Navy Seals and shit use them so if you're a real Patriot you need them too. And the commercial is a guy driving his truck through the mud and shit... just idiot shit for idiot people and damn, it sucks there's enough idiots like that out there that somebody is marketing products like this to them
The World Cup is on Fox and there are commercials featuring that UFC guy talking about how America is bad ass because we're loud and say what we want to say because we're not pansies... it's absurd. Makes me wonder if people in England turn on the TV and see a guy dressed like a Red Coat talking about how bad ass it is to be Posh before he tries to sell you the Queens Tea Cups or whatever
Nope. Mostly gambling adverts. Every other advert, some cuntrag gambling company.
Why aren't you gambling? It's easy, we have an app for it so you can do it on the sly and everything. Do it. Gamble now, all your friends are doing it. Look at all these joyous people gambling, don't you want to be like them? Gamble now!
Not interested. Will never be interested. The more I get advertised a thing, the less interested I get; one of the few useful artefacts of my spergness. Advertising genuinely doesn't have the desired affect on me, it just annoys me and I mentally blacklist any product that advertises at me.
The entire advertising industry is a cancer on humanity as far as I'm concerned. A net drain of resources that serves no purpose other than to prop up the throwaway consumerism that's destroying the only place in the universe known for certain to support life.
Fuck all that shit.
Seen the one where the guy hears a car alarm chirp and it triggers his gambling impulse? Like, he hadn't been thinking about it but every day sounds can bring on the urge. That is absolutely advertising an addiction, crazy that this shit is legal, especially given that they get upset with me for using small doses of opiates to get through my day.