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I rest my case

imagine if there was a little "dances with wolves" logo in the bottom corner of every showing of James Cameron's Avatar

Thats my crashout. In conclusion, if 15% of us stopped working and 30% stopped buying anything but essentials until the federal government agreed to get the military out of the streets, restore habeas corpus, and stop deporting people to concentration camps, fascism in the US would be impossible.

And you're considered mentally ill if you get angry with all this fucking shit. Meanwhile, all the people who really need therapy are damn near manslaughtering people on the roads in big ford broncos and shouting at minimum wage employees for not giving them their extra little fucking sauce packets.

And don't even get me fucking started on the headlights. and the fucking f150s and the people driving like maniacs (also in f150s) and the people whining over the pettiest shit, people who don't know how to be polite anymore because social media taught them that they didn't need to be.

put up the fucking brightest LED screen billboards i have ever seen. Brighter than you'd need even looking at one of those big fucking freeway billboards that I'm sure have never caused a distracted driving accident, NEVER. Because a person could *never* get distracted by colorful shiny words.

One day in my town they approved billboards to be along the highways. Not the freeways, the highways. Maybe it could have been fine, but the city council didn't put any restrictions on the *type* of billboard, only the size. These horrible credit cards in trench coats pretending to be human

It becomes such a major inconvenience for no benefit to you, only to some "social good" so barely anybody even *thinks* to do it. Because we're so self-focused. The world makes us like that. And they are AWARE of that and constantly exploit our tendencies to always go for the most convenient option.

They know that even if we realize this, nobody fucking cares enough to actually change their behavior. They take in all the data we give them and use it to exploit our innate human psychologies for the purpose of sending as much money from our pockets into theirs.

And they think we're fucking stupid. They think we don't notice that the device breaks 3 weeks after the warranty expires. They think we'll just keep fucking buying it. They think we'll just keep ordering all our shit on Amazon despite it literally taking a full 24hrs less time to drive to a store.

The last thing I can think of that was invented ostensibly for people's well-being and not for the bottom line was the iPhone and we see how that turned out. Could have been an amazing tool but now it's just another vector for marketers to assault the tiny bit of free mental real estate we have left

At this point every industry in existence is filled with cretinous scammers. And like 80% of the new industries in existence are just marketing creating demand for useless plastic crap. We lost the plot as human beings and worship this stupid fucking dollar like it's the end point of civilization.

even something as simple as SHIPPING A PACKAGE fucking sucks and you'll get all your shit crushed into your tiny mailbox because nobody is paid enough to give a shit and all that money goes to some fucker who's gonna spend it all on charities focused on killing gay kids for a tax break