Hah, we're not stealing your retirement fund... we're nudging you...
That sounds pretty much like Edward Bernays' Propaganda on steroids.
This sort of shit is definitely being used as we speak to mold public perceptions.
Perhaps, fortunately, it will also work in the other direction. As we see more "wokeness" and shit like every fucking commercial having a black man and white woman couple or a bunch of faggots everywhere, people will become aware of how out of touch with reality all of this shit really is. What is being presented to them will be sufficiently far from their experienced reality that their mind will be repelled by it.
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This uses this technique to encourage people to let go of their homophobic sentiments. The way I've seen it described, the ad makes the (homophobic) viewer feel like he's alone: the people are so joyful.
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