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[–] Lucidlethargy 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This thread is fucked with astroturfing. Welcome to Lemmy, everyone! It's easier to do this shit here... It's kind of a massive fucking problem.

[–] fist_of_fartitude 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a term used by people that think that everything is a conspiracy theory. Most likely OC meant that comments here are payed shills of soft drinks companies trying to downplayed the significance of these news.

In reality, it's full of reasonable people that don't immediately jump on the boogieman bandwagon but simply critically look at the announcement and provide context for it so people don't immediately stop consuming sugar-free consumables in favour of sugared ones as we know the latter to be deadly.

[–] fist_of_fartitude 1 points 1 year ago

It’s weird to think someone would only disagree with you if they were trying to drum up fake support in support of a company.