• gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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            7 months ago

            Just say you don’t know. It’s fine. You said something that you thought sounded cool, but you didn’t think about what it meant and then you had to save face by resorting to repeated ad hominem jabs. You’ll be much happier in life if you just admit it.

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              7 months ago

              My wife works in marketing, idiot. I know exactly how PR campaigns work. It seems you just don’t know how to read, or have never had an actual job. Or both.

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                You’ve replied to my comment saying that this is a “well funded PR campaign.” Yet you’re flailing about and sputtering insults trying to explain how something can be “well-funded” but also no one is getting paid and no one is doing the paying. It doesn’t make sense and you know it. So just admit it.

                You know what, just put your wife on. At least I can talk to someone capable of making sense.

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                  I’m going to explain this very slowly because it’s increasingly clear that you’re a complete numbskull:

                  A firm is hired by someone who wants to sell a product or promote a message. That firm’s money comes from who-the-fuck-knows. They pay an agency to develop marketing material that’s designed to amplify and intensify a message, all in an effort to sway consumers or interest groups. BP pays to make commercials that make them sound “green”. The oil company does the paying, and the marketing firms get paid. Target pays to put out billboards that make them sound friendly and like they have the best deals. The retailer does the paying, and the marketing firms get paid. A university pays to encourage enrollment. University pays marketing firm or ad agency. Political figures pay ad agencies to put out campaign ads. PACs pay ad agencies to put out emotional pleas to “stop socialist Biden” or “save Democracy”. Fox News pays talking heads to sell messages and influence voters. The Koch Brothers fund campy TV shows to sell messages and influence voters. Right-wing activists pay literally tens of millions of dollars to YouTube content creators to sell messages and influence voters. Pro-Israel groups spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars to ad agencies and marketing firms to sell messages and influence voters.

                  Whoever-the-fuck has something they want to promote, they pay someone to put out material at a cadence that will grab people’s attention, elicit strong reactions, and hopefully go “viral” and start being amplified by the rest of the media ecosystem so that John Q. Public hears a coordinated cacophony of self-reinforcing messages. The consumers don’t get paid to be outraged or flattered. Consumers don’t get paid to do literally anything. No one is paying you. You’ve literally been talking about Susan fucking Sarandon for days because you’re so fucking bent out of shape you can’t even sleep at night. And that might very well be because someone paid to put this outrage bait in front of your nose, because they knew you’d cream your fucking pants over it.

                  Now shut the actual fuck up and go away. I can’t fucking believe I had to explain how a goddamned commercial works to a dipshit on the internet today. Gods help us all.

                  Edit: Well look what we have here. I’m not surprised you’re weak in the knees about some dumb shit Susan fucking Sarandon said at a rally. You’re literally the target audience for this kind of outrage bait.

                  Newsflash - You are being played like a fiddle.

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                    I can’t believe how far you’ve missed the point. You are accusing Jews of being upset over a comment that minimizes antisemitism because some nefarious scheming cabal has paid to make people feel that way. You still don’t realize how antisemitic that is. You still don’t realize that you are the one being targeted and manipulated.

                    I have challenged you to pause and actually think critically about the wildly unfounded accusation you made. You responded with repeated insults and weird stalking, staunchly falling short of the task. You still haven’t come up with any plausible firm or individual paid to “generate outrage,” nor an organization paying, nor a smoking gun ad, paid social media campaign, nor commercial, nor any mechanism that this supposed money was used to supposedly influence people.

                    You’re grasping at straws now with vague handwaving at everyone’s favorite boogeyman, AIPAC, which spends about 1/1000th as much as each of Saudi Arabia or Qatar.. Israel doesn’t even crack the top 10.

                    I’m finished trying to lead you by the hand to the conclusion that you made an unfounded claim, based in part on antisemitic messaging you have been unknowingly exposed to.

                    Jews are scared and under physical attack. around. the world. It’s not something that started in the past six weeks. It is harmful when millionaire public figures minimize or justify antisemitism.

                    You clearly don’t get it, won’t get it, and have no interest in getting it. Here’s a list of charities helping Israelis and Palestinians. Stop wasting your breath insulting a vulnerable minority and go do some good.

                    Hand In Hand Schools

                    Oxfam

                    Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

                    IsraAID

                    Save the Children