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"Make no mistake, this is as much a PR ploy by Tesla to pump up their offering.

All the corporate blathering about "passion" is just a ploy to depress market wages.

"Paying back $450mm in loans isn't just a "ploy" - it's actually raising the money and sending it back to the taxpayers.

Entirely a ploy by another altcoin to try and derail Dogecoin.

I still suspect it's a calculated ploy for pageviews and name recognition.

It's a cheap, transparent ploy by those at the top to increase corporate profits at the expense of the workers and the middle class.

I think this is really just a signaling ploy; Dotcom wants to be able to say that he tried to come up with a monetization model for the music industry.

Not because tampons make me uncomfortable, but because it seems like a cheap ploy to get attention, and it makes it more difficult for me to take the app seriously on its own merits.

And, whether technically legal or not, no one wants to play a fool's game - once exposed as the stink bomb that it is, this particular PE ploy should hereafter die the death that it richly deserves.

It's intellectually dishonest and a cheap ploy to avoid saying "well, let them die".The entire stance - or at least, the stance in the way it seems to be most commonly expressed - is fundamentally mean-spirited, made all the more galling by the disingenuous reframing.