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by uniacid 2773 days ago
So a few donations to seemingly good causes make them good?

Don't be easily fooled by their "generosity" as it's not always as it seems to be, many times they fund "independent" organizations or think tanks which really are just foils for them to push their Conservative agenda.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/we-now-know-how-...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/trump-koch-brot...

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-denier...

https://www.ucsusa.org/publications/got-science/2017/got-sci...

I can keep going on, so please don't paint them as just some "nice" guys who give money.

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You do know that Soros also funds think tanks, right?

Anyhow, you just cited 4 left leaning sites, so that's not helpful (and actually proves my point in other parts of this thread!) Charles Koch himself does not deny climate change (you can read about this in actual news sites like the Washington Post,) he is against corporate welfare like the government directly/indirectly subsidizing Tesla, etc. Which is perfectly in line with his libertarianism.

Even the one source you could argue is somewhat "real," was from an opinion writer. Here's the rest of his pieces, which uh, don't seem so unbiased. https://slate.com/author/mark-joseph-stern

You know conservatives can be generous and nice, right?