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[Dill]

(07-20-2021, 04:10 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Wait, wasn't my example that the ways in which both sides engage in stupid shit are different?  I could use "defund the police" as an example.  The utterly false perception that police routinely kill unarmed "people of color" is endlessly perpetuated by the Democratic party.  I suppose when you cater to extremists you paint yourself into a corner, much like the GOP did.

Is this the argument part? 

Yes, you trotted out some examples of "stupid shit", though we don't agree on all. 

But to repeat, I have not claimed only one side has some crazies who do stupid shit. 
You keep wanting THAT to be the claim so you can talk about Portland or ANTIFA or whatever.

My point was that mass delusions guide only one sides legislation and member behavior--all maintained by ideology-driven news.

"Both sides" don't do it. Still my claim.

"Defund the police" is an example of what, exactly? Certainly not of a comparable mass delusion. That's a slogan used by some demanding police reform. Can you sort that out a bit, perhaps consider some evidence to focus the claim so people can judge whether it constitutes a mass delusion based primarily on claims by Biden? 

Likely a majority of Dems would advocate police reform--a reasonable desire--but is there evidence a majority want departments defunded? What is Biden's role?

If we keep reading about unarmed black people killed by the police, it should not be surprising that some conclude this might be a problem.

And it is a fact such killings occur; the debate is only about what one can infer from them. 

Such facts are not the basis of mass delusion in the sense that Trump's Big Lie is, founded on nothing but rumors he himself has started or amplified. The trial of officer Chauvin was not based upon a rumor.