Posted on 12/21/2019 2:07:13 PM PST by powermill
Tron’s controversial CEO and chief marketeer Justin Sun has pledged $1 million to climate activist Greta Thunberg.
In a tweet to Thunberg posted yesterday, Sun said:
“As a young entrepreneur, I share Greta Thunberg’s passion to change the world. Crypto will contribute immensely on reducing carbon footprint by implementing decentralised settlement. I would like to personally commit USD$1 mil to Greta Thunberg’s initiative.”
Thunberg, 16, began making headlines in August 2018 after organising a school strike outside the Swedish parliament to protest about the lack of progress being made on preventing climate change.
Despite her age, she is quickly becoming one of the most influential people in the world, having amassed 3.7 million followers on Twitter alone and recently earning the accolade of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
Meanwhile, Sun has been an extremely polarising figure throughout 2019. The Tron CEO won a bid to dine with legendary investor Warren Buffett earlier in the year with the intention of convincing the crypto cynic about the benefits cryptocurrency can offer.
However, Sun had to rearrange the lunch after he claimed to have had kidney stones, though rumours surfaced suggesting he had caught the attention of Chinese financial regulators.
Numerous allegations arose suggesting he was involved with gambling and pornography. However, the Tron and BitTorrent CEO soon took to Weibo to clear the air and apologised for over-marketing.
Sun’s pledge also comes little less than a week since his Weibo account was shut down, creating yet another wave of negative PR for the marketeer.
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Tantrums can make you RICH
One disaster to another...
>>> decentralised settlement <<<
That sounds RACIST!
Nothing like the tingle of throwing one’s money into the sewer.
How dare the Tron CEO not pledge 4 million instead!!
Sure he’s flushing his money. But that money will be used to publicize the little propaganda girl.
Pimping out your autistic kid to Communists sure beats working for a living
Maybe all these kids give up cell phones and computers and air conditioning and their cars.
Maybe they need to walk the walk instead of being whiny little crybullies.
Enabling tyrants even before they come of age...
More talk of lining people up against a wall you demonic little creature.
It seems to pay big these days.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
Silicon Valley’s version of religious tithing.
Lets drop a megaton of bad into this childs’ FUBAR life.
Cant hurt, right?
Is she a charity and can he get a tax writ-off
This flew right past stupid hit high gear going past moronic and landed on totally idiotic!
exactly. that and wine caves
Global baloney is a scam and this is yet another example of that. It is all about money.
Idiot.
I believe this leftist perv is attempting to position him self for a “date” with this young female radical loser.
The ironic thing is most liberals want us herded into highly concentrated "settlements," e.g., 100 story high bunny hutch apartments next to the railroad tracks and bus stops.
But our already existing "decentralized" suburbs turn all libs into sputtering, foaming at the mouth, gibberish-speaking dunces.
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