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    14 days ago

    When will people learn that any advertising that occurs during extortion like this is the focal point of hate and fear?

    This is like anti-advertising.

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        13 days ago

        In store:

        Clerk: "Well, then… I’d guide you to ShinyBrand. They tick all the marks for what you’re looking for and…

        Customer: aren’t those the guys that made me watch a 7 minute unskippable ad, when I was in town on a public toilet suffering a spontaneous and explosive diarrhea, while waiting for a new piece of toilet paper to wipe my sore ass from all that shit?!

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          There’s been countless studies on this. That’s not how our brains work. After the short term, or a scant few outstanding ones that stay with you, the only thing left long term is the brand recognition. That steers your choices when you buy things.

          Put simply, people don’t have the mental capacity to keep a full list of every company that advertised to them in a shitty way in the front of their minds constantly, beside everything else required for daily life.

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        It’s not “they count”, it’s a working conversion. Which is why it’s being stuffed everywhere.

        Recognition absolutely trumps everything. You’ll be more suspicious of a noname good thing looking good and cheap than of recognizable bad thing looking bad and expensive.

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    Funny, everyone perceives China to be some socialist giant. I just spent a week there and it’s more capitalist and consumer centric than anything I’ve ever seen. Certainly more than Singapore, USA, UK. All the brands x all the shopping. It’s not a tourist spot, it’s a shopping experience.

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      everyone perceives China to be some socialist giant

      No they don’t.

      You’re not the only one with functioning eyes.

      I don’t even remember seeing a person actually arguing China is in any way communist. Just like people don’t argue that NK is a democracy despite them calling themselves one.

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          Holy shit you can’t be that childish.

          Okay, let’s go with “socialist” then because you’re so childish that you’re pretending like the form of socialism China is known to claim to be isn’t communism.

          If you have to pretend to be that stupid, then perhaps you’re not in a good position, argument-wise.

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              What is sad is people like you who can’t back up the things they say, and don’t even try to.

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                China is a unitary communist state led by the CCP that self-designates as a socialist state.

                All I’ve said is that in my personal experience visiting China this socialist state feels more capitalist than many other countries due to the insane amount of consumerism and mass consumption.

                This is due to reform and opening up in 1978 and a burgeoning middle class with significant purchasing power.

                I’m not belittling China with these facts, I’m merely observing what has happened.

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    This is an improvement. A lot just don’t have any paper at all because they are afraid people will steal it and bring it home

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      My sweet summer child. Oh how green you are. You put the poopy paper in the poopy paper bucket next to the hole in the floor that you squat over and pray you hit the hole. You also put the poopy paper in the poopy paper bucket next to your toilet at home.

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    If only we had something shitty and easily spreadable at hand that could be applied to the screen on order to inconvenience the operator of the extortion device.

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    You’ve always paid for TP in China. At least now there’s a way to get it for free. I see this as an improvement.

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      Yeah i came to say this. There’s no toilet paper in most of China. Some fancier shops may have it but most don’t. Even McDonald’s in China doesn’t have toilet paper most of the time.

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      On one hand, the government can absolutely afford to piss money away on stolen toilet rolls or whatever. On the other hand, this locking-down only happened because some people couldn’t be trusted and did the stealing in the first place. If everyone had respect for public amenities this likely wouldn’t have happened

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        It’s the old people. They still remember famine and live like they’re going to go without any day now. Honestly how randomly china manages stuff the old people are probably right.

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    So late stage communism is the same as late stage capitalism. Toilet paper for me but not for thee.

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    The solution to putting ads in bathrooms is that they can be easily defaced.

    Unless China is crazy enough to record their people in the bathroom, which I wouldn’t put past them.