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Re:Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% do... by leereeves on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @09:15PM (#43840134)
Funny thing about the fictional "Wilhoit’s Law". It's not a law of science. It's nothing but an Internet snipe from a blog post by a music composer. It wasn't even written while the political scientist Frank Wilhoit was alive.

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservative...

It's just half of a truism: people apply different standards to "their side". As true of the left wing as the right.

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Re:Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% do... by zzrrt on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:07PM (#43840852)
Being commonly misattributed (which GP did not do!) doesn’t make it fictional, nor does coming from a composer make it automatically wrong or useless.
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Re:Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% do... by leereeves on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @07:07AM (#43843524)
It's not relevant that the quote came from a composer specifically. It's relevant that it didn't come from someone with any expertise about politics. Yet it's been elevated to the status of a "law" by people who just really like the way it insults their opponents.
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