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trimethylpurine 3 hours ago

It would be very easy for an energy company to make hundreds of thousands of donations through "private supporters" to Greenpeace so as to cause problems for their competitors without liability, including defamation, and violent protests. They could be profiting by encouraging angry kids to go ruin their lives, and there would be no consequences for the executives behind it all. In fact, if this were actually happening, then in this story they would have just gotten back half of their marketing budget, which they can recycle for another violent campaign against this or any other competing energy company. And college kids around the world would help to supplement that marketing budget by donating to what they think is an environmental cause.

renewiltord 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Look at who Just Stop Oil is funded by and whether you think people like their actions.

morkalork 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's a hell of a cynnical conspiracy but then again, people like Jill Stein exist.

trimethylpurine 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This is funny. I didn't know who Jill Stein is, so I asked an LLM about how she is relevant. Instead of explaining how she might be involved in evil conspiracies, it thinks that Jill Stein is relevant because, "like a charged college kid," she was apparently at this Greenpeace protest! Hilarious.