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Miles Archer

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Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:27 AM Sep 20

Zuckerberg's "Sponsored Posts" on Facebook (ADS) now include "Charlie Merch."

I use the "FB Purity" extension in my browser, which blocks Facebook "Sponsored Posts" (ADS).

That doesn't work on the Samsung phone, however...I get ALL the crap.

One ad I see all the time is for a clothing company, "Punkoutfit" (they have some very strange and cool shirts).

YESTERDAY, Punkoutfit unveiled their latest via a Facebook ad...the "CHARLIE IS MY HERO" baseball cap (I kid you not).

I didn't share it here because I do my best to honor the "no Republican talking points" rule on this site.

I always thought that Zuckerberg was supposed to be some kind of sneaky, sleazy genius...snooping on users' every typed syllable, harvesting everything they do on the site to shove ads at them.

I HAVE NEVER:

1). Said ANYTHING REMOTELY POSITIVE about Kirk on Facebook. Rather, when he'd get recognition for "The problem with today's male MAGAts is that they have been afflicted by the woke mind virus and are too woke for a rugged super-masculine man like MEEEEEEEEEEEE" bullshit screeds, I'd call him out, as I just did here

2). Hinted at Kirk as being even remotely "heroic," and as such, would not wear a hat proclaiming that.

I THINK MOST PEOPLE are familiar with Zuckerberg's "origins," and how Facebook initially saw life as an app he worked on in college to "rate hot chicks."

But the whole "I AM IN MOURNING FOR CHARLIE" thing has turned into some sort of sick, masturbatory exercise in Capitalism. The opportunists are making money from this, and Zuckerberg is making money from them, and so my "respect" for him...which was already in negative numbers...just dropped a few more points.

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Zuckerberg's "Sponsored Posts" on Facebook (ADS) now include "Charlie Merch." (Original Post) Miles Archer Sep 20 OP
Why feed the beast, get off of Facebook indusurb Sep 20 #1
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