I find 99% of discourse that hypothesizes motivations of third parties to be beyond boring. And, of course, it rarely announces itself as hypothesizing ; it is almost always asserted as fact. "The McDonalds execs WANT proles to get fat" "The progressives WANT the poor to..."
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3/ If a former corporate attorney for McDonalds wants to tell me what the McDonalds execs want, I'll listen. If a former member of a think tank wants to talk about what the leaders of the think tank want, I'll listen. But some 25 (or 55) year old rando on the internet ...
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4/ CONFIDENTLY asserting what the billionaires, or the Dem or Republican donor class, or members of the Chinese Central Committee or whatever want... why the !@# would I pay any attention to that? ...and what's your mental model of me that would think for a second I'd care?
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