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Shell Using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to Convince Kids Fossil Fuels Are Cool

kotaku.com Big Oil's Using Fortnite, TikTok, And Twitch In Effort To Convince Kids Fossil Fuels Are Cool

Shell knows young people are worried about climate change and hopes some Fortnite maps will fix that

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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The HackerNews comments are full of pro-oil propaganda.

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- At the moment it's looking like the oil propaganda is getting downvoted to all hell, rightfully so. I guess buying votes only works for the first 30 minutes of a posts existence if you are as widely hated as oil is.
  
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I thought when electric vehicles got mainstream it would be a no brainier.

0 to 60 in a few seconds? Don't pay for gas? Don't pay for maintenance? Roll your windows down on the road because no fumes or loud engines?

Buuut the propaganda won. "Muh car go BRRRRR real loud". Coal rolling and keying Teslas in the parking lot (before people realized musk is a dip shit)

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- EVs are still awful for the environment.
  
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  If that were the reason they are opposed to electric cars, your comment would have some relevance. But it's not. My point was they were trained to hate the concept because it isn't COOL. Same people who did smoking ads
  
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  Because they require a lot of energy to produce? But nowadays, that energy is increasingly renewably sourced?
  
  So how can you say EVs are still bad for the environment?
  
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  I don’t know why people are downvoting you !fuckcars@lemmy.world
  
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Do they think all children are stupid?

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- No, they know this fact
  
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  Sadly not only children.
  
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I find this really bizarre considering Tim Sweeney is a well known conservationist.

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- Optics. Any rich person doing something altruistic is purely for optics.
  
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  I understand the optics angle but he is donated a significant amount of land. Most in North Carolina’s history.
  
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- Still a billionaire pos, don't defend those who would grind you down and sell you while laughing to the bank
  
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  He still fired 1000+ people weeks after saying the last round of layoffs were the last. BuT hE gAvE aWaY lAnD!
  
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