New Leaked Russian Documents

[Dill]

(07-20-2021, 02:27 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Yes, it can.

Do both sides claim police are on the prowl to murder "people of color"?

Do both sides subvert the rule of law by mischarging criminals because the system is "inherently racist"?

Do both sides have daily riots in certain cities because they're "fighting fascism"?

Do both sides ignore the actions of a repressive regime involved in genocide or excuse the actions of the regime in Cuba?

I could go on, but I think the point is made.  Your side is just as full of shit and unreasonable, just about different topics.  I know this threatens your smug condescension bubble, but so be it. 

LOL both sides are certainly not fighting fascism. That's the point you drove home.

And I don't think "my side" is subverting the rule of law by addressing systemic racism. Quite the opposite. 

And I can't tell whether ANY side ignores repression and genocide in a regime so long as that regime remains unnamed.

But your post teaches us something about how faulty equivalence drives bad judgment. 

What percentage of the GOP believe that Biden stole the election from Trump and what percentage of Democrats believe police are on the prowl to murder "people of color," or are engaging in "daily riots"? 

My post contained examples of mass belief in erroneous Trump claims which are now driving the policies of an entire political party across the U.S. because TENS OF MILLIONS believe them. And belief in those claims indicates a complicit RWM and inadequate vetting by a mass of individual voters. You have presented NOTHING comparable.

Your post is a smattering of actions and positions you do not agree with, but which are either unrepresentative of the mass of voters centrist, liberal and left which you comprehensively call "the left," or the kind of positions arising from actual policy research and historical precedent, and about which reasonable people might disagree.  

So your comparison here is about as balanced as your "Whattabout Hillary?" on the Big Lie thread. 

It's like you decided the claim was that only one side had actors who represent extremes on the current political spectrum, and so you set out to school everyone on that--ignoring the real problem of mass delusion, fed and maintained by both right wing politicians and the right wing press, which my post foregrounded. 

So still no equivalence, rather an illustration of what goes wrong when people assume "both sides" are simply symmetrical mirror images of one another.

They are not.