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So I know that the real answers are about, like, liberalism, castle doctrine, yeomen fantasies, racist fearmongering in the news and popular culture, the extreme normalization of violence through many facets of society, etc., but you made me remember about how there's a genre of home security system ads (mostly from the same company, formerly Brinks, now Broadview) that are incredibly exploitative.
And here's an SNL parody of the same ad that I wouldn't call "good" because only one episode of SNL in the last decade has had good skits (and even that episode had more bad skits than good ones), but the video in question does at least do a good enough job of drawing the viewer's attention to how fucked up the original ad is.
Oh god, you're probably right about this. Suburban white idiots must be getting extremely targeted ads about home security or something. Like in the 90s if you knew a guy with a CCTV system in his house, he was either a paranoid conspiracy theorist or a guy in a mansion who sells cocaine. Now it seems like it's pretty normal for upwardly mobile conservatives to deck their little McMansions out with cameras, security lights, whatever.
One time I was using a VPN once and youtube gave me some kind of targeted ad for gas masks, and the assumption in the ad seemed to be that a sudden apocalyptic disaster was imminent, so I'd better have a gas mask within my safe room. It was wild and opened my eyes to what kind of bizarre panicked rhetoric a lot of upper-middle class conservatives are getting.
Doorbell cameras are extremely normalized because of suburban psychosis, but I feel like actual CCTV systems generally aren't.
I mainly know about ads like the one I linked and have them in my mind as "a thing" rather than undifferentiated background noise because I saw [a different] advertisement from Brink on TV when I was young and it scared the shit out of me.
there is the third possibility which is domestic abuse and the cameras are there to monitor the people within the house. I think home surveilance systems should be illegal for this reason
A lot of it is for deliveries. Imagine having your favorite treats arrive, and then some sneaky low-life [minority] steals them from right under your nose! But if you have cameras, you can give the video to the police and then you get to imagine the brutal justice they will enact on your behalf.
Amazon made it cheap and easy. You buy their door bell/camera, slap it on your door. It's battery operated and snitches directly to the cops, and now there's countless thousands of the fucking things all over the USA>
On the very rare ocaissions all the ad-blockers I have on hiccup Facebook is always trying to sell me body armor, gas masks, insurrection kits, weird christian fascist stuff, and dick pills. It's scary, just pure white male id spewing out of the screen demanding you buy buy buy.
I loved the bit in the commercial where it zooms in on the wall unit thingy and it's the call center with all the guys. Like whoa all those guys are in there
I'm sold
Yeah there's also an entire genre of home invasion horror films
???? He's already in the house, it's too late, he can already do all kinds of awful things, why would she think that calling someone would help? THE DOOR IS OPEN
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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