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I'm incredibly disappointed a Both Side's fallacy would appear at the top of a Hacker News post after all of the evidence we have all over the globe about both side's fallacies.

This week the far left got arrested for protesting abortion rights, while the far right tried to block countries from joining NATO and it's the usual pro-Russian agenda GOP politicans.

Also this week, the House voted to move forward with codifying marriage rights, and only Republicans voted no.

We could go on all day. Both sides are not the same and even remotely implying otherwise is very ignorant and damaging. Didn't you learn anything after 2016? Even Hacker News is no longer safe for reasonable discourse?

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Expanding NATO isn't a progressive stance. It's pro-imperialism.

And those "arrests" weren't even real. They faked being in handcuffs. A publicist even announced on Twitter the "arrests" were going to happen beforehand.

> Didn't you learn anything after 2016?

I learned that the Democrats rig primaries. What did you learn?

Both parties are the same. Their donors are the same people. They just target their theater to different groups. These politicians are all phonies and until everyone sees that we're going to get the same crappy results.

>> This week the far left got arrested for protesting abortion rights

Are they in jail? Did someone come bail them out? Are there mug shots?

They got cited and fined 50 bucks, they pretended to be handcuffed by magical invisible handcuffs that disappeared when they felt the need to throw a fist salute to the crowd. Does that about sum it up?

Seriously, "pretend to be handcuffed" is about the lowest you can go as far as getting me to care about your cause.

Don't care.

Their donor base is the same. So they stick together on the issues that are about value and money instead of values.

We need a good examination on when and how so many people got tricked into thinking cynicism is the same thing as critical thinking. The conservatives dismantled your public education, not the liberals and progressives and social democrats. The conservatives are also organizing on discords and 4chans to upvote shitty Both Sides Fallacies on social media, such as yours.

Feel free to provide voting records that show your theory. You will quickly move goalposts and start more clearing citing conspiracy theories, because Both Sides Are Nowhere Near The Fucking Same.

Taking a position has a high social cost. Try defending any candidate and you'll get a 10 comment chain where you have to defend your position against multiple internet commenters who are arguing mutually exclusive positions against you but not against each other. These kind of comment chains generally devolve into the every issue and often touches on the history of mankind and the nature of government.

Both sides-ism has a low social cost. Everyone is bad to some extent, this can always be true in a vacuous sense, nobody is offended. You are not partisan nor biased if everyone is bad. If someone questions you you can infinitely motte-bailey backwards into an agreeable position, just by saying you are actually taking no position.

dismantling public eduation? Have you been to a college? conservatives aren't allowed in the building. If it sucks conservatives had nothing to do with that.

You're very useful

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