<story><title>Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/exxon-lobbyists-reveal-in-secret-recordings-how-they-ma-1847205392</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethbr0</author><text>You know that boards elect CEOs and approve pay packages? So the Exxon CEO just lost 25% of his boardroom support.</text></item><item><author>Forbo</author><text>Boo hoo, they lost some board seats! What a world!!&lt;p&gt;We treat pot dealers more harshly than these fucks. Give me a fucking break. I&amp;#x27;m sick of it.</text></item><item><author>ethbr0</author><text>Like Exxon losing 3 (of 12) board seats in May to Engine No. 1&amp;#x27;s ESG proxy fight, via the support of major institutional investors?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2021-05-27&amp;#x2F;exxon-lost-a-climate-proxy-fight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2021-05-27&amp;#x2F;exxon-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Forbo</author><text>Where&amp;#x27;s the accountability? We&amp;#x27;re facing a global crisis. Once again, the rich are insulated from the consequences of their greed, while the poorest suffer the most. It&amp;#x27;s high time those who sold us out should have to answer for their actions. Something on the order of seven billion counts of reckless endangerment should do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Forbo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure that&amp;#x27;s great consolation to the families of people dying in heat waves and once-every-10,000-years weather disasters. Also climate migrants will rest easy knowing that the Exxon CEO &amp;quot;lost support&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/exxon-lobbyists-reveal-in-secret-recordings-how-they-ma-1847205392</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethbr0</author><text>You know that boards elect CEOs and approve pay packages? So the Exxon CEO just lost 25% of his boardroom support.</text></item><item><author>Forbo</author><text>Boo hoo, they lost some board seats! What a world!!&lt;p&gt;We treat pot dealers more harshly than these fucks. Give me a fucking break. I&amp;#x27;m sick of it.</text></item><item><author>ethbr0</author><text>Like Exxon losing 3 (of 12) board seats in May to Engine No. 1&amp;#x27;s ESG proxy fight, via the support of major institutional investors?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2021-05-27&amp;#x2F;exxon-lost-a-climate-proxy-fight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2021-05-27&amp;#x2F;exxon-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Forbo</author><text>Where&amp;#x27;s the accountability? We&amp;#x27;re facing a global crisis. Once again, the rich are insulated from the consequences of their greed, while the poorest suffer the most. It&amp;#x27;s high time those who sold us out should have to answer for their actions. Something on the order of seven billion counts of reckless endangerment should do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjerem</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not serious, those people are accountable for our world actually burning and the sentence is that it&amp;#x27;ll be harder this year to get all the options on their new yacht ? Maybe they&amp;#x27;ll even need to use the same embedded submarine than the year before.&lt;p&gt;I know it&amp;#x27;s caricature but please, what&amp;#x27;s happening is utterly important.</text></comment>