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    1 year ago

    I genuinely believe that instead of doing marches, they should all just pool money they would’ve spent doing this march, and then just send that money to the politician’s fundraiser and hire lobbyists. All these marches are super inefficient use of your money.

    If you look at the company lobbying budgets, it’s honestly not even that much money. It’s way smaller than most people think. It’s often in like 10s of thousands to 100s of thousands for large ones. Very few exceptional ones reach tens of millions. These people in the march probably spent like 100 dollars to drive out there (and spend gas…), buy lunch, print signs, etc. Almost any notable marches are like 10K people. Huge ones have literally millions of people. If they just pooled 100 dollars from each of them, they’d single handedly create the biggest and largest lobbying force ever created by ridiculous margins. Just imagine how much policies that much money could move. Yet we don’t do that. We just scream at them and hope they listen. Then realize the march did jack shit, and we repeat hoping they might listen the next time. And repeat…

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        1 year ago

        Absofuckinglutely yes.

        Exxon spent $6.8 million dollars in lobbying in 2021. BP spent $4.27 million.