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"defund FDA" is not a particularly moderate position

• aetherson 10y ago
  What? Nobody said "defund the FDA." My grandparent poster said he expected them not to use dirty tricks and intimidation, and my parent poster said that it was cool to control the press to "maintain order" (<-- seriously, that's a quote!) and intimated that not controlling the press to maintain order was an alt-right position. A belief in an independent, skeptical, and indeed antagonistic press was a core left-wing value as of, like, the late 20th Century. I think it still is or ought to be.
  • popmystack 10y ago
    The FDA is not stopping journalists from being "independent, skeptical." It is stopping journalists who attend their press releases from misquoting their statements -- which in case you missed out on a little bit of history has definitely happened with the FDA in the past.