Seen this shit before with Reddit’s most astroturfed poison producers: Monsanto.

“Glyphosate is so safe that you can drink it.” eco-porky

“Then drink it. Right now. With the cameras on you.” ecoterrorism

“I got to go!” porky-scared-flipped

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    I am sorry you have interacted with “the tech community” and their bizarre claim of “long termism” but also hedging their bets and saying they don’t really believe that.

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      I think it’s something like the “Narcissist’s Prayer” where of course they don’t believe it unless their grifting stumbles on something that makes them hope they might become immortal god-kings yet.

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        I think they earnestly believe it and the real grifting is the “center left” facade they have so they don’t get kicked out of the polycule

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          Up until a few years ago I do recall my-hero getting brought up, uninvited, in almost every left-leaning online community I can think of, usually under some pretense of “but what about ELO~N? He’s one of the good ones and (press release copypaste about saving humanity and humans becoming interplanetary species here)” morshupls