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by jqpabc123 1511 days ago
Most of the user base are "sheeple" who subscribe to whichever corporate marketing program has the largest budget. Google itself is a major player in this game.

  "You laugh because I'm different.
   I laugh because you're *normal."
*normal - Average, ordinary, unremarkable, the same
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Using "sheeple" unironically says more about you than it does about them. There's nothing remarkable about being too socially stunted to be able to acknowledge groups beyond your own.
I fully acknowledged groups beyond my own --- and the fact that corporations acknowledge and abuse these groups vulnerability to social pressure.

After all, this is what advertising (i.e. Google) is all about --- coercing people to act a certain way and buy certain things in order to fit into a particular social stereotype.

Which is worse --- being socially stunted or socially vulnerable?