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emodendroket on April 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their...

You will not find a single person in America who believes advertisements are a good neutral source of information, yet they still run them. They run them ever for products everyone has heard of and probably tried at some point. Why do you suppose that might be?

ruleabidinguser on April 21, 2017 [–]

I'm not saying ads are worthless, I'm saying they don't have control over you.

emodendroket on April 21, 2017 | [–]

I don't see how this is a response to what I said.

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