Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

The Kochs contributed to some valid causes. Some like their efforts on climate change were totally dishonest for their personal gain. They paid for personal harassment of journalists who covered their political activities which is despicable and pretty indefensible.

I'm nailing down the goalposts here: I think anyone who thinks these people deserve to die is an unsafe human being for someone like myself to be around. That is not to say that I think there aren't valid ethical questions about their beliefs and activities.

I never said anything of the kind that I thought he should die or I'm glad he did but his legacy is pretty bad which considering his advantages in life is pretty disappointing. The entire species might pay a horrible price for his dishonest campaign against global warming.

Choose your hills to die on as you will. Let's not talk about advantages when maligning one of the few human beings who actually stood up for a number of disenfranchised groups that garner approximately zero political interest except as owned tribal pets.https://twitter.com/webdevmason/status/1165102823794561026?s=21 …

Not distorting political process for private gain by wholesale fabricated propaganda, not bullying journalists with PIs for printing verifiable facts about his political contributions and that repeated dumping of toxic waste on reservations are some of those hills yes.

Cool. Not torturing children, seizing the assets of the impoverished without due process to fund local police departments, or imprisoning non-violent drug users are a few of mine.

No doubt he had some actual principles and he was a loud voice on asset forfeiture but he never put a 1% of his political muscles behind that like he did on climate change and tax cuts for himself and his business.

What percentage was it? How much of the money, how many conference hours? Tell me. Surely you know. 1% is a pretty precise figure to begin with.