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Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by ModernMech on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:27PM (#18463529)
> The simple fact is, none of these men (the Kochs or Soros) are "evil," they believe in what they believe and they put their money towards it. Simple as that.

It's one thing for Obama allege the Koch brothers are spending millions to advance an agenda in Congress. It's quite another for Trump to allege George Soros is funding a migrant caravan containing elements of terrorists, gang members, smallpox, and leprosy to invade the US southern border. That's why I'm saying its a false equivalence.

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Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by partiallypro on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:39PM (#18465481)
I never said those were equivalent. But in terms of being boogeymen, they are. Read any article about the Kochs from the left, and you'd think they were planning the 4th Reich. And the fact that this belief is extremely popular on the left, and that very mainstream outlets perpetuate this shows how widespread it is.

In fact many in this VERY thread are claiming that the Kochs are actually evil people, something you'd see scrawled in the comment section of Breitbart but in regards to Soros...and we're on Hacker News, a place of generally intellectual people.

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