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		ClumsyPilot on Jan 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EPA proposes to strengthen air quality standards > Sayings like "no safe amount" makes for great virtue signaling and worse than useless public policy People that are rolling coal and clinging to their cars are also virtue signalling, just in the other direction

acdha on Jan 14, 2023 [–]

I’ve found non-ironic use of the phrase “virtue signaling” is a good indicator of bad faith. You wouldn’t presume someone else couldn’t possibly be acting on principle unless that’s your mode of operation.

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