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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does this invalidate all his analysis? I'm sure it's helpful to have that context, but it's possible to be informed by people whose ideological program doesn't perfectly align with our own.

I've learned a lot over the past few years from people like mearscheimer, Alexander mercouris, Jeff Sachs, even Andrew Nepolitano, all of whom have varying levels of bad positions.

Liberals analyze the world on vibes, which tends to mean they need complete ideological alignment with their information sources, which is obviously limiting. But having a philosophical framework orienting our analysis frees us from that limitation because it allows us to read widely, including sources with major problems, without risk of falling for their bad takes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You absolutely avoided my point that he has tremendously bad takes, including ones that have left possibly millions dead (antivax), and probably billions future dead (climate change skepticism). The guy is a hard right reactionary that sometimes critiques US foreign policy, something that the far right does regularly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Your points about him being antivax & anti-climate change were not avoided or refuted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Uhh, I think you missed the OPs entire response to you.