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Sounds like you don't have an argument or analogy and are going for ad hominem and deflection instead.

The argument 'but the right dismantling the shadow left, and the left dismantling the shadow right hopefully provides some balance' is merely a symmetric balance principle.

The person pretending to ask questions used an underhanded socratic method to assert what was happening about line-by-line and then demanded analog for their own premise as if it were mine instead of theirs. Youve fallen for a trick.

I asked for evidence of your claim of symmetric behavior.

You just sent everyone on a wild goose chase instead of saying “I don’t have any.”

My claim is that symmetric behavior is balanced. You went on the goose chase dismissing the first example of your entirely different demand, then pretended I never said it. Your argument is a disingenuous fraud.

Oh okay, your statement is just "if the left did this same thing, then they'd be doing the same thing?"

Alright, no complaints there. Thanks for your insight.

No I frankly have never heard of anything like this, and it doesn't appear the dozens of federal budget experts, Constitutional law experts, political historians, or policy legal analysts I follow closely have heard of anything similar either.

I don't think anyone at any location on the political spectrum would describe what's going on right now as "business as usual," but apparently you believe that's the case. So please share evidence. Definitionally, it should be abundant.

The more polite term is "sealioning."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

> both sides do this

> can you give a specific example you see as similar?

> wahhhh stop sealioning me!

'This' is as defined by you, as you reject analogies based on whatever premise you impose on others, even though they pretend to be mere questions.

I knew you would reject whatever was offered, and you did. It was never a sincere question.

You haven’t presented any examples.

And I literally asked what seems analogous to you.

Sure, I might dispute your answer, but that’s what a conversation is. It’s really telling that you still haven’t volunteered any answer.

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