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actually, i like this idea. boycotts and other forms of consume revolt (taken beyond a certain scale, that's what they are) are useful tools, and i think the effect of this would be to put a dent in the atwater/rove school of politics-as-slander. and why *shouldn't* people organize themselves toward such an end--it's not a viable argument that this is censorship because there's no regulation involved--rather it's a redefinition of community standards--and the adverts are themselves such a redefinition--but they're one that demonstrates the imbalance of power which obtains between capital and people, the former dominating the latter entirely.
there's no prohibition on the atwater/rove aesthetic--only consequences. if the republicans want to buy up blocks of advertising time to run their idiot adverts one after the other, they can. if companies want their brand associated with these adverts, they're free to let em run---if they aren't, it's easy enough to hang stipulations (like earmarking funding). television outlets will comply, because they're interested in money. it's a form of freedom in action to force these adverts to become materially what they already are--a kind of stench that wafts over american pseudo-democracy, turning everything around them to shit.
if you want a hand organizing, smooth, let me know.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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