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> This is a common superstition, like faeries or psychic powers.

That would be hyperbole even if I had just asserted that advertising had no effect at all without any arguments.

> I really don't think I can convince someone that advertising is sometimes necessary when they'd rather smear blood on their forehead and beat a deer to death with a rock.

I really don't think I can convince someone of anything who doesn't even read the very first sentence of my post and invents a strawman instead.



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