If a pyromaniac wanted to burn down your house and you were fighting back, Marco Rubio would suggests you instead let him burn down half your house as a compromise.
#BothSides

REMEMBER FOLKS...

#BothSides are the same. 🙄

If a pyromaniac wanted to burn down your house and you were fighting back, Marco Rubio would suggests you instead let him burn down half your house as a compromise.
#BothSides

REMEMBER FOLKS...

#BothSides are the same. 🙄

Mike Brock skewers the moral laziness (and insincerity and mendacity) of the "both sides are equally flawed" stance:

"When every criticism must be accompanied by corresponding praise, criticism becomes impossible. There’s always something that can be cited as the other side of the ledger—some policy outcome, some symbolic victory, some disruption of norms that can be spun as beneficial."

#Democrats#Republicans #fascism #democracy#BothSides #morality
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-social-function-of-false-equivalence

"The attempt to steal an election gets balanced against mean tweets about the media.

This isn’t moral reasoning; it’s moral paralysis disguised as fairness."

#Democrats#Republicans #fascism #democracy#BothSides #morality
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"More insidiously, it creates a framework where atrocities and policy preferences become commensurable—as if they exist on the same moral scale and can be weighed against each other. Systematic attacks on democratic institutions get balanced against tax cuts. Corruption gets balanced against deregulation."

#Democrats#Republicans #fascism #democracy#BothSides #morality
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Mike Brock skewers the moral laziness (and insincerity and mendacity) of the "both sides are equally flawed" stance:

"When every criticism must be accompanied by corresponding praise, criticism becomes impossible. There’s always something that can be cited as the other side of the ledger—some policy outcome, some symbolic victory, some disruption of norms that can be spun as beneficial."

#Democrats#Republicans #fascism #democracy#BothSides #morality
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-social-function-of-false-equivalence

"Saying ‘both sides are the same,’ when one side is a lie and the other the truth, always promotes the lie and degrades the truth. Thus, attempts to create contexts in which both sides are essentially just opposite views of entirely equal value should always be understood as attempts to disguise a lie."

#Trump #lies #numbers#BothSides #trans#LGBTQ #healthcare#Muslims #racism #women #slavery #genocide #starvation
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"or if hungry people should have food, or if thirsty people should have water, or if disabled people should have access to buildings, we have already lost.

Those things don’t go on the table. Because once they are on they are on the table, they have entered the realm of the things we consider."

#Trump #lies #numbers#BothSides #trans#LGBTQ #healthcare#Muslims #racism #women #slavery #genocide #starvation
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"If we are debating whether there should be a Muslim ban, or whether or not health care should be kept from the poor, or whether gay people should be banned from marriage, or black people killed by cops, or if women should be paid the same or not, or if Native Americans and descendants of slaves deserve reparation for systemic and ongoing theft,"

#Trump #lies #numbers#BothSides #trans#LGBTQ #healthcare#Muslims #racism #women #slavery
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