Argumentum ad Koch, the most flexible of bad faith arguments: if the Kochs funded it, it must be bad; unless it's good, and just a cynical PR ploy. Somehow this piece accidentally almost does both, but briefly regains lucidity & remembers what it was trying to get people to hatehttps://twitter.com/senatorshoshana/status/1186969264139505665 …
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Replying to @webdevMason
"Open borders is a koch brothers proposal!" Is my favorite. Let's build boarder security and not allow one of the easiest ways to make some of the poorest lives better because the Koch's like it.
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Replying to @billpulec @webdevMason
tbf, re:ssc post in other thread I really like many projects koch foundation working on right now, including this. But also not exactly shocked many have default skepticism on projects funded by koch. It's good null hypothesis given commons they've burned
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Replying to @kevinakwok @billpulec
If you accept the premise that Koch support indicates either (a) x is bad or (b) x is good, but intended for PR, Koch support gives little information when x is already popular/widely approved of (plausibly good PR) & provides a strong negative signal when x is novel/unusual...
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I think this is the standard premise as delivered and consumed, and it is tailor made to make people actively stupider.
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Replying to @webdevMason @billpulec
that's true. but it's also simultaneously true that in many ways the koch brothers are equally if not more responsible for their low PE value among liberals. So it's an unfortunate and unproductive view--but also one that they are at least partially culpable for creating
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I'm not saying the Kochs aren't responsible for their reputation, just that this premise can be expected to produce poorer thinking, and while the Koch Foundation can work on whatever it wants, it can't force anyone to make themselves more functionally stupid unless they comply
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Replying to @webdevMason @billpulec
yeah i agree with that. But social capital staking only works if it works in the negative sense too. So there is some benefit in attaching a cost to burning commons Of course, not obvious that's what people are intentionally doing, so mostly agree with you
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