Post #4050954
2026-07-24 01:21 UTC
It's usual for the really prominent propagandists on the #conservatives' side to have a tremendous list of accolades and impressive-sounding titles and "fellowships" in mimicry of legitimate education. They give themselves lots of participation trophies, these folks, and they like to have pillow-fights with each other—"debates" devoid of intellectual gravitas, mere mutual-admiration sessions where everyone gets space to burble their pseudo-science or their fraudulent theories about people and society and economics.
#Capitalism is sometimes cited as a topic worthy of intense study, far more lavishly funded than (say) history or mathematics or any genuine discipline.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 01:24
The real point of this massive ecosystem of right-wing think-tanks and "research institutes" is twofold, with a public and a private side. They generate huge volumes of pro-business, pro-authoritarian propaganda for the public to consume, and they privately work endless and with truly religious (Christofascist) fanaticism on figuring out new laws and new scams for squeezing profit and new ways to corrupt and undermine existing U.S. institutions which stand in the way of their dominion. Undoubtedly the most important of these places is the Heritage Foundation, which has written a great many policies for Presidents to champion including the #Democrats' saint, Pres. Barack Obama. (cont'd)