Well, that’s all water under the bridge now.

They just won’t let you

Thanks, I needed that.

Like the dick.

Oh yeah? What’s the difference between gods and other mythological creatures and why does it matter?

Atheists don’t believe that gods don’t exist. Atheists don’t claim that gods don’t exist. They don’t believe claims that they do. And the difference between those two statements is far bigger than the difference between gods and dragons. You keep popping up the same old straw man so you can knock it down.

But it isn’t even an argument if your opponent denied your premise and keeps correcting you about your total misunderstanding about themselves, but you refuse to correct your mistake.

I was really hoping they’d be refusing to comply with unjust laws. If they wanted ways to look like the good guys, these days we’ve got plenty.

Atheism is not the idea of denying any gods, but rather not believing claims that they exist. This requires not faith, but by definition, the lack of it.

And your reply wasn’t one at all.

I wasn’t arguing. I was giving you an analogy. What’s the difference between not believing in a god and not believing in a pet dragon? Does one require faith and not the other? Why or why not? That’s an argument.

If my argument is so easy and stupid, rip it apart. Condescension gets you nothing.

I have a pet flying dragon that breathes fire and devours people I don’t like. Do you believe me?

I wonder how much high school athletics have contributed to conservatism via head injuries and groupthink?

None of those were adjectives.

They should boycott even if the USA does give guarantees. What good is a guarantee under this administration?

Oh I certainly wasn’t proposing a practical transition method away from it. Nor do I think our authorities would willingly give up that gravy train. I’m just saying it’s an offense against freedom, privacy, and informed consent. Frankly, aadvertising threatens the stability of civilization itself, and it must be reigned in to ensure any kind of positive future. But a near total ban would be even better.

I dont.

Your reaction to that was not to consider a single word I said, but to take offense.

The advertising industry had their chance to run an ethical business model.

Now they have their own corporate spy agencies and propaganda networks.

You mean that local mom and pop store that was briefly allowed to exist to maintain the illusion before they got crushed by a corporate juggernaut?

When a society allows itself to be psychologically manipulated in such an all pervasing manner, the people participate in their own subjugation and call it freedom.

There exists one of the most powerful groups on the planet who considers it their right to sneak inside your mind to twist your decision making ability to whatever amoral ends they like. They pump their filth into your head your every waking hour, and they’ll get into your dreams once they have the technology. Rather than revulsion and disgust, your reaction to this is “ok, but maybe just a little less than they do now.”

What a surprise.

No. There is nowhere in the world more sacred than our own minds, and no one else has the right to worm their way inside, en masse, to alter them as they will.

Haha what? I’m not burning billboards and slaughtering CEOs. I’m just sick to death of all these ads. 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.

Sounds like somebody is gonna get summoned for jury duty.

Oh they had roadside billboards in 1950. And they were a blight back then. Advertising is a cancer.