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I can understand and even sympathise a lot of positions conservatives and Republicans have but this type of shit baffles me. Part of me figures it's nice PR to
by spondyl 9y ago
I can understand and even sympathise a lot of positions conservatives and Republicans have but this type of shit baffles me.
Part of me figures it's nice PR to cover over that it's just a power play but then again, Hanlon's Razor[1] makes me wonder if they genuinely think net neutrality is bad
[1]: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
- elefanten 9y agoI often wonder about these dynamics. I've been genuinely befuddled to learn that some people believe political arguments that I perceived to be so stupid that they had to be part of a cynical political narrative. But lo and behold, some people who I otherwise knew to be reasonable still believed them. My suspicion is that it only takes a very small minority of a political group to understand the landscape of an issue, initiate a narrative around a power play and have it spread like wildfire within the group. In short, I think both of your explanations can be correct at the same time. A small subset initiates, the rest of the group genuinely adopts.
- IntronExon 9y ago”Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.” Heinlein’s Razor.