So what's your problem with them if all they do is something anyone can do?

Because they're lobbying for bad policies. If they were lobbying for good policies, I would care far less. Also, they are far better funded than most individual citizens.

Hang on, I thought what they were doing was something anyone could do, now you're mentioning a key difference

Do I really need to spell out that the same activity can be carried out with different levels of impact, without altering the fact that it's fundamentally the same activity?

But it's not, is it? Because it's not just with "different levels of impact" is it? There's other differences there that you just pointed out, now you seem to have magically forgotten

That they're lobbying for bad policies? That's distinct from whether or not their lobbying is inherently different in character to other people's.

Do you think it's not?

Because if so why bother establishing a think tank? Seems pretty pointless to me

Leaving my snark aside for a moment, I think the problem here is that you're confusing the extent to which an action is perceived by its intended audience, with the nature of the action itself.

Manchester City and Plymouth Argyll are both football teams, but that doesn't mean that they draw the same gate, for example.

No the problem is you're a smug cunt who has quite likely never known any sort of oppression and you like to talk down to people and ensure you keep your comfortable existence, and this sort of stuff bothers you

Almost as if you've forgotten how cause and effect works

Oh the irony.

Yeah saying something you've heard smart people say isn't going to magically make you smart