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by asdff 2020 days ago
Imo it's not that all advertisement is evil, just the ones that stoop to manipulation by taking pages from psychological research, turning our primal instincts against our own self interests to spend more of our limited money on dumb things or vote for a dumb thing to make someone else money.

Unfortunately for the majors in advertisement these days, that's their bread and butter.