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Old 06-10-2011, 06:01 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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Nice to see some kind of resistance to marketing. I find it very disturbing how many of my friends freely repeat ads and jingles and "like" products on facebook, even though no one is paying them to do so.

It's bad enough that we get so much manipulative advertising from the companies themselves, without having it constantly rebroadcast by the general public, or in this case, by reporters.

Do you need your big powerful government telling you what products to buy? You need protection from those evil advertisements? and would rather have some bureaucrat in our big bloated government telling you how to spend your money?
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:11 AM
 
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We must agree. The state knows best when it come to acceptable speech.

And because of your dedication to the party comrade,I'm recommending you for an apartment with it's own bathroom when one becomes available.
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Do you need your big powerful government telling you what products to buy? You need protection from those evil advertisements? and would rather have some bureaucrat in our big bloated government telling you how to spend your money?
Your passionate (over)reactions are rather revealing. I didn't even say I was in favor of this, just that I appreciated the motive behind it.
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:13 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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Your passionate (over)reactions are rather revealing. I didn't even say I was in favor of this, just that I appreciated the motive behind it.

But the motive is big government control. You either like big government telling us how to live our you don't.
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:15 AM
 
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Your passionate (over)reactions are rather revealing. I didn't even say I was in favor of this, just that I appreciated the motive behind it.
Well since the motive is censorship, we were spot on
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:20 AM
 
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But the motive is big government control. You either like big government telling us how to live our you don't.
Oh hey, just like our old friend George: "You're either with us or against us." Must be kinda comfy to have such simple thoughts.
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:20 AM
 
Location: Belgium
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They're idiots.
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:36 AM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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But the motive is big government control. You either like big government telling us how to live our you don't.
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Well since the motive is censorship, we were spot on
Neither one is the motive. Read up:

Académie française - Official moderator of the French language
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:42 AM
 
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Good luck with that.

People are great at coming up with code words.
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Old 06-10-2011, 06:51 AM
 
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Oh hey, just like our old friend George: "You're either with us or against us." Must be kinda comfy to have such simple thoughts.
Typical
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Old 06-10-2011, 07:01 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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Oh hey, just like our old friend George: "You're either with us or against us." Must be kinda comfy to have such simple thoughts.
lol. silly leftists, that was hillary clinton
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