This ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppLGxIv2gH8 is totally perverting the most well known safety message about downed power lines, which are very likely to be a hazard due to tomorrow's big snowstorm, resulting in traffic accidents and fallen trees.
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BFeely1 OP t1_jauvpjg wrote
I would say worse, because now he's almost suggesting it's fine to grab that line that is bound to come down in tomorrow's storm.
BackItUpWithLinks t1_jav12zt wrote
> I would say worse, because now he's almost suggesting it's fine to grab that line
That’s about the dumbest take I’ve ever read on Reddit.
No, it says nothing like that.
RAP1958 t1_javffmz wrote
Watched that ad many times. Did not get that we should grab power lines. I did hear "No line is safe to touch ever".
DidDunMegasploded t1_jaw1iu9 wrote
Almost feels like OP was born and grew up after those ads died out and is completely unaware that "no line is safe to touch, evah" is Jim Wright's iconic catchphrase that a lot of Mainers who were born before OP remember.
Would explain their stupidity.
ecco-domenica t1_jav4iyf wrote
I just donated to Pine Tree Power. It is sad to see a beloved icon shilling for Avangrid and using his power for ill, not good. But you've got this ass backwards. Let it go.
gregra193 t1_jauw5l2 wrote
I kinda get your point, but the ad repeating twice “no line is safe to touch, evah 👉” is hopefully still a reminder about not touching real life downed wires.
BFeely1 OP t1_jauw87a wrote
Except he's comparing it to voting for Pine Tree Power. You're not going to be cooked from the inside out by taking a marker to that little circle on the ballot that says yes, but mess with a downed line, and you know, ...
I say he crossed a line.
Super-Lychee8852 t1_jauwlh7 wrote
How are you getting that at all? He's just a well known local personality using his catch phrase.
You're really reaching
Super-Lychee8852 t1_jauw4cr wrote
What?
l3ubba t1_javw9fh wrote
It’s just an analogy, he isn’t suggesting people go touch downed lines. His ad is saying, both literally and figuratively, that we shouldn’t mess with power lines.
If someone is stupid enough to watch that ad and think “wow, he is saying I should go touch downed power lines” then Darwin was going to get them one way or another.
kubabooba t1_jauw9g0 wrote
I think you re misunderstanding the ad completely. I believe he is using touching line as a metaphor/figure of speech in reference of keeping the government away from managing the power grid.
BFeely1 OP t1_jauwg8o wrote
I'm guessing you either plan on voting no or are involved in the campaign, but I still consider it very reckless of Maine Affordable Energy Coalition and/or CMP.
BackItUpWithLinks t1_jav11b5 wrote
That ad has nothing to do with downed power lines tomorrow.
kubabooba t1_javfbq0 wrote
Wrong guess, I thought I d clarify your misinterpreted opinion on that add.
fredezz t1_jauxszz wrote
He is property of Avangrid.
Patsaholic t1_javmkqq wrote
*Iberdrola
Particular-County461 t1_jawqsid wrote
Not remotely dangerous, doesn't undermine powerline safety at all. What WILL undermine it is having the government run it. Dumbest idea I've seen in a long time.
GrowFreeFood t1_jaxbqex wrote
Is it because you believe the government is too corrupt, and that a foreign corporation will run it better because it is less corrupt?
Majestic-Feedback541 t1_jaxvmlg wrote
Do you know what dangerous means? Because there's nothing advocating anything even remotely dangerous in this ad...
BellaPow t1_javhkw2 wrote
I don’t know who he is but I can see he’s a corporate simp
SadExtension524 t1_javh4by wrote
I'm from "away" so idk who that guy is, an electrician maybe?
Seen the ads several times. Looks like poor people simping for capitalists again to me 😉
BFeely1 OP t1_jax08y5 wrote
He's a spokesman for CMP. So definite conflict of interest.
SadExtension524 t1_jax2fxl wrote
Oh yeah for sure then!!
Anytime a multinational, multi-billion dollar corporation says, "YOU should be against..." it's almost never because they are looking out for our interests.
BFeely1 OP t1_jax2isx wrote
And I suspect the CMP shills came out in full force.
SadExtension524 t1_jay1mm3 wrote
I believe it.
BFeely1 OP t1_jay1tb9 wrote
I did get lucky with my power today, but of course the storm isn't 100% over and there's still a chance a branch could fall or someone crashes into a pole.
gregra193 t1_jauvkkm wrote
They’ve gone total “I’m Bill Green and I support our Senator, Susan Collins.”