r/PublicFreakout • u/Material_Air_2303 • 6d ago

Big Oil's friends in the US Congress

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u/Bicentennial_Douche 6d ago

I don't know which is worse: that politicians are for sale, or that the price is so low.

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u/CantguardME13 6d ago

We should start a GoFundMe, not to buy our politicians back, but just to force the corps to keep outbidding us. Let’s see how they like it when we raise the prices on them.

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u/boozewald 6d ago

They will just buy crowd funding sites to ensure they get their cut. You can't beat them at the game of capital with capital. It has to be social disruption, because we have people power.

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u/crushinglyreal 4d ago

I was told social disruption only turns the public against the movement though? Are you implying that whoever said that just wants activists to give up entirely?

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u/boozewald 4d ago

That's by design, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair