When someone makes a list of claims and some of the words are clickable, I expect the link to lead to some evidence for the claim, or at least a very clear example if the claim is based on common knowledge. Instead, the claim “Europe’s war against air conditioning continues to be truly absurd.” does not lead to anything that would illustrate a “war” (not even a metaphorical war) against air conditioning, it does not show anything about “Europe’s” current policy at all but instead just leads to a tweet by Rob Wiblin who says “European countries with hot summers should have AC in most buildings, and we should install solar panels that supply the necessary electricity just fine on hot and sunny days. It’s crazy AC is uncommon in the UK — doubly so in France.” (It is unclear what is controversial in the first sentence. The second sentence may be based on an accurate description of the situation, but it is unclear in the tweet.), who retweets a statement by French nationalist M. Le Pen about air conditioning. That statemen is a mix of some policy intention and claims about French “leaders” and “elites”.
I think the old norms according to which politics content was seen as potentially problematic and therefore should at least be based on good epistemics had their advantages. But maybe I misremember those times.
When someone makes a list of claims and some of the words are clickable, I expect the link to lead to some evidence for the claim, or at least a very clear example if the claim is based on common knowledge. Instead, the claim “Europe’s war against air conditioning continues to be truly absurd.” does not lead to anything that would illustrate a “war” (not even a metaphorical war) against air conditioning, it does not show anything about “Europe’s” current policy at all but instead just leads to a tweet by Rob Wiblin who says “European countries with hot summers should have AC in most buildings, and we should install solar panels that supply the necessary electricity just fine on hot and sunny days. It’s crazy AC is uncommon in the UK — doubly so in France.” (It is unclear what is controversial in the first sentence. The second sentence may be based on an accurate description of the situation, but it is unclear in the tweet.), who retweets a statement by French nationalist M. Le Pen about air conditioning. That statemen is a mix of some policy intention and claims about French “leaders” and “elites”.
I think the old norms according to which politics content was seen as potentially problematic and therefore should at least be based on good epistemics had their advantages. But maybe I misremember those times.