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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by passivepinetree on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:31PM (#14852046)
If you don't mind sharing, where did you grow up? Was it a political influence that resulted in the lack of ads? Was everything state-run as a result?
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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by Dangeranger on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @06:00PM (#14852271)
Just an educated guess but it is most likely Cuba. [0]

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/how-do-...

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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by boomzilla on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:18PM (#14853114)
Well then the OP ignores the biggest advertiser of them all: the communist party.
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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by smsm42 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:51AM (#14854330)
Most of that CP did, at least where I grew up, was not advertisement but slogans. Like "in God we trust" in US. Nobody really takes it as an ad for God.
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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by ionised on Thursday July 27, 2017 @07:22AM (#14864213)
> Nobody really takes it as an ad for God.

Are you sure?

Seems like the right-wing evangelicals of the US definitely do.

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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by smsm42 on Friday July 28, 2017 @04:39AM (#14872856)
Could you quote a couple of them saying so? Because it doesn't match what I know about evangelicals, they don't exactly consider God something you can buy.
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Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit by ionised on Friday July 28, 2017 @05:16AM (#14872985)
I didn't mean it as a literal object you could buy.
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