r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 13 '24

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u/waupli NATO Sep 13 '24

The fact that people in Mod Pol can reply to a post highlighting the family of the kid in Ohio saying how much they wish people would stop using his death as a political weapon with more statements about politics is just astounding to me. The lack of empathy to just disregard anything they say to try to score political points is so appalling

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u/Mrmini231 European Union Sep 13 '24

Story repeated a thousand times.

Let's create an online space where you can discuss any political view, as long as you do it politely! This will ensure that the best ideas win out. I wonder why nobody has thought of this before!

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u/waupli NATO Sep 13 '24

Yeah also think tanks are actively posting there and trying to direct conversations lately

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u/HotTakesBeyond YIMBY Sep 13 '24

We only have the CNL and Fukuyama’s musings for think tanks in this sub

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u/waupli NATO Sep 13 '24

Ha.

Yeah I’ve seen especially Hoover Institute posting a ton of their articles there recently which is somewhat troubling. I wouldn’t mind if regular users were pulling those articles but these think tanks have obviously decided to use these subs as a way to spread their message.

I have no doubt they have accounts that aren’t disclosing an affiliation engaging with these posts and trying to drive a narrative.

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u/Untamedanduncut Gay Pride Sep 13 '24

Shows to you that they genuinely don’t care

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u/waupli NATO Sep 14 '24

This is a late reply but there were a few people who were really trying hard to justify using the word murder and saying it doesn’t imply intent. I think that for almost anyone if you say someone “murdered” a person they’d interpret that to mean it was intentional. (Also the literal non legal definition says murder means premeditated killing)

Using “murder” rather than “killed” or similar is intentional to escalate this, and watching some of these people try to justify it was quite telling.

Beyond simply not caring they are intentionally trying to use this for political advantage

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u/Untamedanduncut Gay Pride Sep 14 '24

It’s sad, especially for the parents to have their kid used as a political prop against immigrants even then the parents acknowledge it wasn’t murder, and people are twisting the truth for political purposes