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Fyi, there are actually three Kock brothers. They keep a spare on ice in case on of twins needs to go in for servicing. In all seriousness, this family goes beyond the two of them. (The third brother is real, and he is kept out of the spotlight). The twins are the public face of a much more secretive private empire.
Fyi, there are actually three Kock brothers. They keep a spare on ice in case on of twins needs to go in for servicing. In all seriousness, this family goes beyond the two of them. (The third brother is real, and he is kept out of the spotlight). The twins are the public face of a much more secretive private empire.
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Has WaPo's "activist" owner had any real impact on what they choose to cover?
Yes. They commonly report negative SpaceX stories, and trashed the hell out of Bernie Sanders during the election, publishing 16 negatives stories in less than a day.
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I like the British media, because they don't pretend to be impartial. Impartiality is impossible, so it's better to be honest about that fact than to pretend to be impartial as the American media does.
On the other hand the state sponsored one forces you to pay an involuntary fee and it is not all that balanced a source.
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Charles seems like a nice guy. Curious, what is the political problem with him? https://youtu.be/Z7Pj2rKdKII A quote from the video: If you don't learn to do dirty jobs, if you don't learn unpleasant work, by the time you're in your 30s, you never learn to work productively ... you learn from that you don't want to do that the rest of your life, so you had better find some aptitude. He says that after telling about a…
You can't really make a political judgement about the man based on a soft video interview. The Koch brothers support both libertarian causes and are opposed to action against climate change, to name two. They also put private investigators to dig into the background of a journalist that was writing about them: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/what-happened-to... More broadly, they are able to affect the sh…
Even after the results from Berkeley earth that was in part funded by one of the Koch foundations?
Allegedly, the Koch Brothers don't plan to take an active role in the company. "Steve Lombardo, a spokesman for Koch Industries, also said that the Kochs had no plans to take an active role in the expanded company. “This is a passive financial investment made through our equity development arm,” Mr. Lombardo said. The company’s role in the transaction, he said, was similar to that of a bank." Regardless of what you t…
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Charles seems like a nice guy. Curious, what is the political problem with him? https://youtu.be/Z7Pj2rKdKII A quote from the video: If you don't learn to do dirty jobs, if you don't learn unpleasant work, by the time you're in your 30s, you never learn to work productively ... you learn from that you don't want to do that the rest of your life, so you had better find some aptitude. He says that after telling about a…
I don't hate him, in fact, I've read a lot about and been impressed with some of his goals, particularly criminal reform [0]. However, I've never been overly political, and I'm currently not in the population most affected by the influence of his campaign spending. Someone who is greatly affected by something like, say, reproductive rights, would probably feel differently about how Charles Koch's money -- whatever it…
They also support gay marriage and an end to drug prohibition.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/14/politics/david-koch-gay-rights...
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On the other hand the state sponsored one forces you to pay an involuntary fee and it is not all that balanced a source.
It's hardly involuntary. No one's holding a gun to your head to own a TV receiver.