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Re:Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens by indy on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:02PM (#32153636)
ESG is a tool that certain political parties can use to "give to their friends" and "take from their enemies". Anyone who doesn't toe the line will find their ESG rating dropping (see Tesla: https://theconversation.com/how-a-sustainability-index-can-k...)
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Re:Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens by woodpanel on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:18PM (#32154936)
Been criticizing Tesla for years. But once Elon openly confronted cancel culture's twitterized grip on democracy all of a sudden those criticisms became newsworthy and a concern for regulators.

Same with crypto: The scammy-ness and un-pleasentness (ie of funding terrorists and organized crime) was always there, but news-worthy it got only once Canadian Truckers made use of it.

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