It’s the latest in a series of environmentally focused rulings by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, which has also nixed ads from Lufthansa, HSBC and Unilever.
It’s pointless arguing with someone so deeply ingrained with the victim mentality who has already decided all their problems are due to one particular scapegoat.
Reddit is fully of young, anxious people, some of whom will even grow up to be rich. I honestly think that what we’re witnessing here is exactly what the eggheads refer to as “atomization” and “free-floating anxiety”. Everyone’s so insecure all the time (sometimes, but not always because of material poverty) that they latch on to the first thing they see that passes for a villain.
(I’m probably doing a bit of that too, right here, right now.)
Really, that’s all you gleaned from this?
It’s pointless arguing with someone so deeply ingrained with the victim mentality who has already decided all their problems are due to one particular scapegoat.
yes? same reason why a ton of laws and such in the US gets passed is the rich people get pissy.
Yep, the NIMBYS that want wind farms, but not on my Pugent Sound! It will spoil my ocean view!
NIMBY and ocean view don’t mix. One is talking about suburbs and the other a beachside home.
Reddit hates anyone who worked hard and has more money than them.
ah yes rich people in the UK definitely worked hard for their money and weren’t born into it….
Reddit is fully of young, anxious people, some of whom will even grow up to be rich. I honestly think that what we’re witnessing here is exactly what the eggheads refer to as “atomization” and “free-floating anxiety”. Everyone’s so insecure all the time (sometimes, but not always because of material poverty) that they latch on to the first thing they see that passes for a villain.
(I’m probably doing a bit of that too, right here, right now.)