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schizoidman@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

'Dark Money' Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks

www.politico.com

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'Dark Money' Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks

www.politico.com

schizoidman@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/175261

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  • zabadoh@ani.social
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    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.

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      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        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.

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        I’m guessing a lot of the general public doesn’t even know what a think tank is.

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          We used to call the Grease Trap the Stink Tank.

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      Legalize hooverin schneef!

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    It’s not a bug it’s a feature.

    Washington think tanks exist solely as a tool to allow money to set policy.

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    This is like saying radiation exposure is tainting cancer.

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    Think Tanks were always private groups taking private money to influence policy.

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    Someone should set up a campaign group named Citizens For Integrity In Think Tanks to tackle this pressing issue.

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      I already founded one called Tenaciously Investigating Think Tanks, Instigating Essential Scrutiny, or TITTIES

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        Definitely need to take a look at them (TITTIES)

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          Le Tits Now!

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    Think tanks are the result of people with money working to corrupt the political system. Tainting them is pointless.

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    Has been from the start. I’m pretty sure that the first US “think” tank was the fucking John Birch Society!

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    Oh no, the septic tanks are being tainted…

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    an entity that doesn’t need to show its financial books and directly influence politics. Who’d of thought. /s

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      It’s who’d’ve thought. Not to correct, but because double contractions are the best.

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    Dark money (meme frowny face)

    Dank money (meme considering slightly positively face)

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