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Right now the government is like the clothed guy on a nudist beach and it's awkward. That's a fantastic metaphor for the situation. That could be quite an effe
by icanhackit 11y ago
Right now the government is like the clothed guy on a nudist beach and it's awkward.
That's a fantastic metaphor for the situation. That could be quite an effective advertising campaign against government surveillance because it visually shows the disparity of exposure while capturing the impropriety of the act.
Perfect.
- andy_ppp 11y agoYes, it's the clothed guy on a nudist beach taking photos of everyone saying "don't worry I'm the government; these pictures are to stop terrorists."
- TeMPOraL 11y agoMeanwhile ad industry - the person next to you on that beach, like you also naked, is too making photos and is the one running voyeur porn site.
- CamperBob2 11y agoBut then, advertising agencies didn't murder 50 million+ of their own customers in the last century alone.
- eveningcoffee 11y agoHmm. Are you sure? How about tobacco, unbalanced food, guns, ... all these things are advertised and are causing deaths - so their hands are not clean either. But yes, not their own customers, but the bad analogy holds only when you think that citizens are customers of the government.
- CamperBob2 11y agoTobacco and junk food are primarily harmful to people who voluntarily consume them, while guns are statistically never more dangerous than when wielded by one's own government/military/police forces. (There are exceptions -- such as present-day life in America -- but they are historically anomalous and probably temporary.)
- junto 11y agoThis is quite possibly the best thread ever.
- junto 11y agoMeanwhile the clothed guy is sniggering to himself and quietly muttering just loud enough to hear (that one small penis, bends to the right.... her over there, slightly saggy boobs, cellulite).