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[โ€“] [email protected] 327 points 11 months ago (61 children)

Fuck ALL advertisements. Yes, even "unobtrusive" ones, especially yours. If I want your shit, I will find you. If I appreciate your shit, I'll pay you for your time. If you want to connect, I'm all ears. Otherwise, fuck off capitalists, fuck off advertisers, and fuck off useful idiots who want to waste my finite lifespan in this miserable universe showing me ads.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I went to Cuba and i leaned that not all advertisements are capitalist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember growing up in the 80s and we'd have adverts for milk and eggs. Not any brand or company. Just a general message to drink milk and eat eggs. Think it was like a farmers union thing.

Most people here will only know who Accrington Stanley are because of those ads.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, from the beef council. Also, "The more you know..." Those were kind of like advertisements. I tried to post pics of some Cuban billboards but this app wouldn't do it. I'll try again. They basically blame everything on the US embargo.

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