Yesterday: mass shooters are America's single greatest problem, what kind of nutjob actually kills other people to satisfy their insane ideology? Today: a person I've never met with the surname Koch is dead and this may be the happiest day of my life
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The celebration is unjustified, but the lack of tears being shed is not. He was a pretty awful bloke who had zero qualms about influencing politics through his wallet to shut down climate change issues. There are a few genuine reasons for his unpopularity.
He did some incredible and completely unnoticed work for some of the country's least protected populations. Acknowledge that and then hate him on net, fine. Fail to acknowledge that and feel free to show yourself to the door.
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Well put. When I get frustrated by folks who refuse to acknowledge the validity of an opposing view in their argument, I keep coming back to SSC's conflict vs. mistake theory:https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/ …
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In what is an honest coincidence, here's a quote from the post: "Conflict theorists naturally think mistake theorists are the enemy in their conflict. On the object level, maybe they’re directly working for the Koch Brothers or the American Enterprise Institute or whoever."
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