this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its nice to have foreign advocacy groups trying to influence our elections. It makes me feel like we're an important nation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You can be sure that self interest is more often than not the motivator, e.g “ Business Desk reported Grenon is linked to the NZ News Essentials website, which is dedicated to attacking the Government. Grenon is a Canadian private equity tycoon who made headlines in Canada when he shifted $68.2m to New Zealand while involved in court action with Canada's tax agency.” Why wouldn't such characters put a bit of personal capital toward promoting agendas which could gain themselves serious bucks? or to campaigning against opposing agendas. Its the public who need to check themselves for credulity. God forbid such tycoons end up with 0.1% less wealth. They might have to put rents up and we will all suffer /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

We're quite fortunate they're so bad at their jobs. Imagine spending six figures on AI voiced ads that everyone ignores.

Still shady as hell though.