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You seem to have missed or misunderstood the term trial balloon. Not everything you read that is presented as a serious article is actually a serious article.
by svnt 4y ago
You seem to have missed or misunderstood the term trial balloon. Not everything you read that is presented as a serious article is actually a serious article.
edit: Apparently I should either stop trying to make points in the nuance or stop suggesting that news articles are managed because people think agreeing requires a tinfoil hat.
- aschearer 4y agoHard to call the CHIPS[1] act a trial ballon if I'm being honest. Or for that matter Trump's tariffs[2]. Again, the position upthread is wrong. [1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/09/fact-sheet-chips-and-science-act-will-lower-costs-create-jobs-strengthen-supply-chains-and-counter-china/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_tariffs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_tariffs
- svnt 4y agoI mean I think you’re both right in ways, but you seem to be equating “elites testing talking about it publicly” with “elites privately lobbying for funding that fixes it” which are not at all the same thing, and the difference is part of the point GP was trying to make. Your references are also anachronistic to the narrative you’re constructing.