every time I use the DC metro I'm freaked out anew by all the ads for arms manufacturers
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Replying to @flglmn @thomas_violence
lol yeah it's like flying through SFO and being bombarded with ads for SaaS APIs to 10xify your disruptive startup, except with mass murder
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Replying to @chaosprime @thomas_violence
in NY that space would be used for immigration attorneys or cheap plastic surgeons but in DC it's all global mega murder conglomerates
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Who passes through the DC metro and thinks “hmm I guess I could do with a Minuteman iCBM guidance system”
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congresspeople and pentagon staffers with budgetary authority I assume
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Yeah they must think “Raytheon - hmmm I’ll maybe google them or see if they’re in that huge list of large/scale armament makers”
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it probably has a sort of keeping-the-brand-top-of-mind effect
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you only need one $10B purchase decision influenced to give a $10MM advertising campaign an astronomical ROI
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like nigerian email scams, but for fuel air bombs
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Replying to @flglmn @chaosprime and
it's interesting to think about because one of the things that makes it so odd is that these ads are aimed at maybe ~30 specific people
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and probably aimed by people who could in fact just pick up the phone and call those people. but the same message is a different message on the phone vs. carpetbombed across the metro
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