> That's not at all the same statement as "think tanks are a euphemism for propaganda machine"

Yes, it's a different (compatible, though, not contradictory) statement, though related.

> That's not at all the same statement as "think tanks are a euphemism for propaganda machine"

You are mistaking a many-soded discussion for a two-sided debate. My having a different position than an earlier participant is not a goalpost shift (them changing the point they are arguing for without acknowledging that it has changed would be.)

Yeah it is; when you are ideological, you put out pieces that subscribe to said ideology and ignore evidence/observations that support other ideologies or contradict your own. This is the same as propaganda which, instead of putting out pieces raised from an objective perspective, you only publish pieces that support a specific ideology.

I don't believe so. Ideological propaganda is still propaganda.