Have been feeling this strongly recently. The people with the most signs are the least appealing to support. The food with the most advertisements seems the most likely to be trying to lure people into eating garbage.

Surely there is a word for this? Spam doesn’t feel like the right term when it’s all over the place all the time. It’s like you know it’s wrong because there’s too much money involved trying to convince everyone it’s right.

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    4 days ago

    no idea but I completely feel you. Man election time sucks and its like dudes. I made my decision before you sent out fliers. At least in most cases.

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      Seriously, who the fuck gets a junk mail flyer and is like “I didn’t know to vote for this person but now I definitely will!”

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        4 days ago

        yeah I wonder that to. I think the scariest thing about modern times is all the money spent on advertising that is apparently worth it.

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            I mean like if you have something new and your trying to tell people about it. ok. but like hey why don’t you come eat at this place that is super well known. I mean are people like homer and then decide to go?

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        A shockingly high percentage of voters are essentially no-information, name recognition motivated.