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by edgyquant 896 days ago
No they definitely aren’t wrong at this time. Don’t know that it requires an ad campaign though.
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There's a surprising number of people who think 'Just Stop Oil' is a reasonable slogan, so maybe it does.

(If the slogan was 'Gradually Replace Oil', almost everybody would agree, there'd be no excuse to block roads, throw paint around though, and earn attention and social media cred, though)

> there'd be no excuse to block roads, throw paint around though, and earn attention and social media cred, though

No, there wouldn’t be the oil excuse, there would be something else that riles people up to create chaos

Yeah, because if it is in fact vital, then it's vital whether or not there's an ad campaign saying how vital it is.
They’re not wrong and it’s a timing thing. It isn’t as if this is a new message for them. But a big ad spend reinforcing their talking points during an election year is how they try to move the needle to protect their interests politically.