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like how much benefit does it really bring to any cause ever?

even if it doesn't affect regular people, does it make a difference in a meta-sense like oil companies say "wow lots of people seem to be organizing anti-oil protests, we should do things that earn us less money in order to shift our PR in a positive direction"

Just Stop Oil are funded BY Big Oil, and have been pressed by journalists multiple times why they keep doing PR-stunt  activism that has been shown to make people LESS likely to support their cause, and always dodge the question.

Need source on this because that would make my day if it's true.