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Commercial Grade Ignorance

Maybe it is just me, but I have noticed a serious level of cognitive dissonance or just plain idiocy in commercials lately. I’m not saying it hasn’t always been there, but it seems like the people that create the commercials have just gotten lazy or decided that their audience is completely ignorant so they no longer feel the need to cover it up. Below are three examples with some commentary.

 

Exhibit A is a commercial for Nexium which apparently you need if you refuse to clean up your diet and get constant heart burn.  The commercial starts out demonstrating why we wouldn't want our doctors doing our jobs and then immediately tells us that we should go to our doctors and suggest what drugs we should be taking?  How did this get approved?  We don't want doctors using a jack hammer but we should go ahead and self-prescribe. My vision is starting to shade a bit red.

Next up is ConnocoPhillips which apparently has figured out how to use fiat on an industrial level.

 

 

ConnocoPhillips has decided to use cavemen level platitudes in demonstrating that natural gas is safe, environmentally friendly, and job creating.  All I can say about the first commercial is those are the worst students in the world because apparenlty none of them had the inclination to ask the most important questions of "why" and "how?"  Oh, ConnocoPhillips creates jobs? Great! It's safe, too? Awesome. I'm sold. The same goes for the ignoramuses at the farmers' market in the second commercial.   The takeaway I get from the commercial is that natural gas is safe, eco-friendly, and job creating just because ConnocoPhillips says so (or their schills in the commercials) so who am I to question?  First off, 100 years doesn't even sound like that long of a time in terms of energy consumption.  Second, an oil company declaring themselves eco-friendly just because (or through an inventive use of fiat) is kind of hard to swallow.   Maybe it's just me, but I'm starting to feel a blood vessel rupture.

Finally, allow me to present to you an advertisement for ChristianMingle.com.

  

If you have a television, you've probably seen the ads for ChristianMingle. com and wondered if you should have a Christ centered relationship.  I have no problem with online dating sites.  My problem comes with the phrase at about 23 seconds: "Sometimes we wait for God to make the next move, when God is saying 'it's your time to act.'"  What?  Couldn't that logic be applied to nearly every aspect of our lives?  We have Christians running around telling us that they've received messages from God to run for president or just seen Jesus in a pancake.  The whole religious construct is that we should or shouldn't do things because God does or doesn't want us to.  Now apparently, we should just arbitrariliy determine that God's telling us it's our time to act?!?!

I'm probably paying way more attention to these commercials than any other person out there, but stuff like this drives me nuts. I get that these are just ads trying to get me to buy something, but is it too much to ask for at least logical reasoning in the way the message is conveyed?  In my opinion, the Nexium ad is by far the worst since it seems to be completely oblivious to what the ad itself said not to do three seconds earlier.  It's reasoning like this that causes anuerisms like that one I'm currently having.

More Evidence that Americans are Retarded

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The Retardation of California

I have tried to explain how Californians screwed themselves by passing Prop 13 in 1978 (it’s why my parents left California) but as usual, Jon Oliver does it much more eloquently than I do.  And instead of repealing Prop 13, because why would you ever want to pay property tax based on the actual value of your property when you could instead support a much more regressive tax like sales tax. I’m okay with sales tax in general, but I think that before we go about trying to expand sales tax, homeowners should have to pay fair tax-value on their property.

Now, without further ado, here is Jon Oliver.

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Another Right-wing Retard Makes Another Terrible Analogy

Reasons this idiot is wrong and GPA points are not analogous to dollars.

  

1. GPA points are not finite
2. GPA points are not zero sum. To get a GPA point for me, another student does not have to give one up. The inverse analogy in money would be, to pay you for mowing my lawn, I photocopy a dollar and pay you with it, thereby not actually losing a dollar myself.
3. GPA points don’t equate to wealth (at least not directly) and cannot be saved, invested, or otherwise manipulated or used.
4. This gut probably has zero GPA points himself and was hoping to get some off someone else. He probably has zero dollars too.
5. I do not require the GPA points of others to earn GPA points myself. Also, my GPA points were not earned by the someone else spending theirs. Example: Halliburton would not make money if it weren’t for government contracts spending tax dollars. Or, any company that requires roads, phone lines, power, water, educated population, or anything else to make money….so basically ALL of them.
6. Currency inflation is not the same as grade inflation.
7. Schools, like the one this fucknut apparently graduated from (UC Merced), do not run by allocating GPA points paid by tax payers or GPA rich donors to their current students.
8. As a Facebook friend of mine commented: “Is the GPA of the highest graded students 343x that of an average student? Because that's the current ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay.”
9. Fox and Friends clearly require GPA points to shelter and feed their families, and clearly didn’t earn any of their own while they were in college, so can Fox please start paying them in GPA points earned by other Fox employees?
10. Can I convert an A into two C’s and loan them to someone or invest them at different interest rates and eventually get a B and A- back at some future date? Or will a C eventually grow into an A if my investment horizon is long-term enough?
11. This idiot also has a video complaining about affirmative action with basketball teams, and completely missing the point that affirmative action is about opportunity equality, not outcome equality.

 

Republicans Hate Young People

Colbert calls attention to Republican plans to make it as difficult as possible for young people to vote in elections.  This is also addressed in my post from back in March.

 

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