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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink55•2 months agoDid anyone ever think of think tanks as anything other than thin veils of credibility for whatever they were advocating for? The Heritage Foundation, and the Hoover Institution, for example.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•2 months agoi think you’re vastly overestimating the general public’s awareness of such things and whether they even think critically about the things they are aware of
minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglish19•2 months agoMore than half the country reads at below a sixth grade reading level. It’s really hard to be aware of much in that capacity.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•edit-22 months agocompletely by design, and in the works for decades an informed, curious, and skeptical population does nothing to help the 1%, and everything to threaten them https://newrepublic.com/article/158436/republican-murderous-anti-intellectualism
minus-squareFlying Squidlink8•2 months agoI’m guessing a lot of the general public doesn’t even know what a think tank is.
minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoWe used to call the Grease Trap the Stink Tank.
Did anyone ever think of think tanks as anything other than thin veils of credibility for whatever they were advocating for?
The Heritage Foundation, and the Hoover Institution, for example.
i think you’re vastly overestimating the general public’s awareness of such things and whether they even think critically about the things they are aware of
More than half the country reads at below a sixth grade reading level. It’s really hard to be aware of much in that capacity.
completely by design, and in the works for decades
an informed, curious, and skeptical population does nothing to help the 1%, and everything to threaten them
https://newrepublic.com/article/158436/republican-murderous-anti-intellectualism
I’m guessing a lot of the general public doesn’t even know what a think tank is.
We used to call the Grease Trap the Stink Tank.
Legalize hooverin schneef!