schizoidman@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago'Dark Money' Is Tainting Washington Think Tankswww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squaresolsangraal@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 days 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 Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·2 days 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-squaresolsangraal@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-22 days 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 Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 days agoI’m guessing a lot of the general public doesn’t even know what a think tank is.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agoWe used to call the Grease Trap the Stink Tank.
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.