Post #4051319
2026-07-24 01:45 UTC
The Republicans hammered away at the Democratic reliance on the deceptive methods of the marketer. Everything the GOP said about the Democrats on this particular subject was always true: the Clintonite Dems were poll obsessed, devoid of principle, hypocrites about their own purported liberalism, authoritarian down to the bone.
#Marketing is intrinsically authoritarian: the marketer seeks to present themselves as the authority, the person who knows everything and who ought to be trusted implicitly.
(cont'd)
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 01:48
There's heaps of marketing tricks but the core of the discipline is about making the sale, and to do that the marketer must persuade the sucker that they're making a freely chosen decision on rational grounds even as they're signing some disastrous contract. Getting people to sign contracts, gosh where have I heard about that before. It's ringing a distant bell, echoing up from unseen debts, its hollow and doleful clangour carrying with it a whiff of boiling sulphur. At heart the marketing thinks of human beings as infinitely manipulable. (cont'd)