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Oh they had roadside billboards in 1950. And they were a blight back then. Advertising is a cancer.
Extremism is cancer.
Haha what? Advertising is a distributed global brainwashing campaign, by the wealthy, against the working class. They don't hire psychologists to exploit our lizard brains for no reason, and that's why it needs to be outlawed.
Your local mom & pop store also uses advertising smart guy.
@RedditIsDeddit @Olhonestjim If ads were banned, they wouldn't have to.