NRA gives Ajit Pai “courage award” and gun for “saving the Internet”

Re:NRA gives Ajit Pai “courage award” and gun for “saving th... by spondyl on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:19PM (#16449721)

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."

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Re:NRA gives Ajit Pai “courage award” and gun for “saving th... by elefanten on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:44PM (#16449886)

I 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.

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Re:NRA gives Ajit Pai “courage award” and gun for “saving th... by IntronExon on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:03PM (#16450022)

”Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.”

Heinlein’s Razor.

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