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@StillIRise1963 @inthehands @johnlogic @davejackson
Also thinking about the way they make us - men and women - insecure about our bodies. YouTube is packed with that type of marketing. Diet, grooming, low testosterone, feminine & masculine soap & deodorant, cosmetics... It never ends.

Paul Cantrell

@Woodchaz @StillIRise1963 @johnlogic @davejackson
Heck, it’s not just consumer health & beauty! Why do scam diets sell?

• Sense that problem is important
• Sense of powerlessness
• Experience w/frustration, failure, backsliding, breakdown
• Peer pressure
• Desperation for a simple answer

All of that is a recipe for manufactured insecurity + hoax cures. And there’s a whole ••enterprise software industry•• that markets its services using exactly this strategy. Like diet pills for businesses.

@inthehands @StillIRise1963 @johnlogic @davejackson
I used to get a kick out of it when the publisher (2 different ones) took an ad from an obvious scammer. They inevitably cheated us on the bill & flew by night. One was a bait & switch butcher. The other one sold fake satellite dishes in the country. Karma...

@inthehands @Woodchaz @StillIRise1963 @johnlogic @davejackson

Heck, it's not just traditional consumer products! Why does authoritarianism itself appeal to some folks?

@CJPaloma @inthehands @StillIRise1963 @johnlogic @davejackson
Because they can't handle rapid change. They want certainty even if it's false. Someone to make the questioners shut up. Change requires questioning beliefs and makes them fear death. I left because I care more about truth, but I kinda get the mindset.

@Woodchaz @inthehands @StillIRise1963 @johnlogic @davejackson

Appreciate the honesty.

Unfortunately, the same marketing techniques that get even lifelong progressives like me to pay extra for nice looking shoes named "air" seem to work equally well at getting people to buy into supremacy bullshit even in the 21st century.

While women and POC have made gains, the reality is trillions (trillions) have been lost in security to the ultra wealthy in the past 60 years. AND those wealthy folks have successfully used marketing techniques to convince some folks ( mostly white men) that their painful and real losses in financial stability (that they- the wealthy vacuumed up) were "stolen" from them by women, POC, the gays, etc..

time.com/5888024/50-trillion-i

TIME · The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less SecureA report shows that a $50 trillion redistribution of income to benefit the richest has made America less healthy, resilient, and secure

@CJPaloma @inthehands @StillIRise1963 @johnlogic @davejackson
And that does upset me btw. Young men who remind me of young me are going down some awful rabbit holes. They can't even see how they're being manipulated. Took me long enough to see through the right wing's bullshit as it was. If I'd had this Internet when I was their age I might never have found my way out.