sbv@sh.itjust.works to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 months agoThat ad Trump is so whiny aboutyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1319arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1316arrow-down1external-linkThat ad Trump is so whiny aboutyoutu.besbv@sh.itjust.works to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square43linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down7·5 months agoWhy is OK for the government to be wasting tax payer dollars on ads?
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoThe money goes to US corporations, the only saving grace it has was stopping trade talks but that wasn’t the intent.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·5 months agoThe government literally owns their own connunciation platforms. They can dissiminate the information they want for free. Why give money to a US corporation?
minus-squareKnoxvomica@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoTVO I mean… Yes? I’m guessing it played on there but almost no one watches it. Are you talking about CBC?
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·5 months agoThe state literally can just put any message anywhere in any city. It’s the State. They can nationalize any company and use their physical and digital infrastructure to send information to their citizens.
minus-squareKnoxvomica@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoRight, do you think that will work for a Canadian province to get the message out to an American audience on American owned TV stations?
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·5 months agoWhy would the CA gov be paying ads to US companies to influence US citizens? That’s fucked.
minus-squarefancy-straw-simple@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoIt’s about trying to get Americans to put pressure on their politicans to open the trade border. It seems to be working.
minus-squarefancy-straw-simple@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoWhy do you say that ?
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoBecause we shouldn’t be giving tax dollars to foreign companies to try to influence people in another country. That’s propaganda targeting the population of another country. It’s unethical.
Why is OK for the government to be wasting tax payer dollars on ads?
How’s it a waste?
The money goes to US corporations, the only saving grace it has was stopping trade talks but that wasn’t the intent.
The government literally owns their own connunciation platforms. They can dissiminate the information they want for free.
Why give money to a US corporation?
TVO I mean… Yes? I’m guessing it played on there but almost no one watches it. Are you talking about CBC?
The state literally can just put any message anywhere in any city. It’s the State. They can nationalize any company and use their physical and digital infrastructure to send information to their citizens.
Right, do you think that will work for a Canadian province to get the message out to an American audience on American owned TV stations?
Why would the CA gov be paying ads to US companies to influence US citizens? That’s fucked.
ONTARIO GOVERNMENT, NOT CANADIAN.
It’s about trying to get Americans to put pressure on their politicans to open the trade border. It seems to be working.
That’s pretty fucked up, if true
Why do you say that ?
Because we shouldn’t be giving tax dollars to foreign companies to try to influence people in another country.
That’s propaganda targeting the population of another country. It’s unethical.