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@phaedral It's common these days to #BothSides everything. Everybody is #FarmingForClicks
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“'Both sides are bad' is how people opt out of having a backbone."
~ Patricia DeAnna
#Democrats #Republicans #fascism #democracy #BothSides #morality
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ThreadsPatricia DeAnna (@patriciadeanna) on Threads“Both sides are bad” is how people opt out of having a backbone.
Shared on FB (of course) by a well-meaning and very young (under 30) friend. They don't need to feel shamed so I'll dump on it here.
This list is bananadonks.
The placebo effect is explicitly a denial of the existence of whatever other explanation is offered (e.g., spells, prayers, or manifestation)
Spiritualists might not like being lumped in with the "law of effect" victim-blaming nutjobs
I suspect only a person who knows literally nothing about quantum theory or research could casually suggest that spiritual phenomena and the placebo effect are the same thing as "quantum physics" (maybe they mean entanglement? Or maybe the meme creator just thinks "quantum physics" is a big, mysterious thing so obviously it's the same as everything else they don't understand)
No, everyone's not arguing over its name. We disagree on whether the phenomena exist in the first place, and this heterogeneous list doesn't change that.
If you don't try to cram at least 3 qualitatively very different kinds of things together, then yes, plenty of people (maybe a majority of humans) deny the existence of one or more of these items.
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"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."
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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."
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-social-function-of-false-equivalence
Notes From The Circus · The Social Function of False Equivalence
"Everyday" is a song written, produced and performed by English musician #PhilCollins, released in January 1994, by #VirginRecords, as the second single of his fifth studio album, #BothSides (1993). The single achieved success mostly in North America in early 1994 and its accompanying music video was directed by Jim Yukich, depicting Collins moving out of a #NewYorkCity apartment. In 2004.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3eTiqUbjkU
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"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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"Once you are willing to debate whether one group of people or another should be abused, then abusing and expelling people from society is something that is up for debate. It's on the table. It's listed on the exchange. It's attained the stage.
If we are debating whether there ought to be laws preventing trans people from bathrooms, then we’re already debating the wrong thing, and as a result, we have lost."
~ A.R. Moxon
The Reframe · Boiling WaterThe corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
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@JustToOdd I understand. But at the same time, your message comes across as an apology. And given the number of #TrojanHorseProfiles I've been encountering, I am on guard and don't want to let a #BothSides theme #Obnubilate and #Obfuscate #TrueSignal
I'm halfway through and interviews with #BillBurr on #GoodOne, and he's really emotionally invested in a #BothSides analysis of American politics--reasonable people on both sides, the right and left are equally to blame--but he's referring to the #Democrats as the left, and he's launching standard and *accurate* leftist critiques: billionaires who don't pay employees enough to go to the dentist should be taxed more, the Democrats should be democratic, etc.
https://www.vulture.com/article/bill-burr-woke-politics-billionaires-left-right.html
Vulture · Bill Burr Says the Left and the Right Have the Same Problem
#bothsides #mediafail For 40+ years it hugely benefited conservatives to have the media lie & say #bothsides do X, whatever X is. But when it comes to presidents getting on in age, suddenly the old #bothsides treatment is taken out back & shot like a dog.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l6opwwzqu4evfmu2uutcihfr/post/3luyfpuw7cs26
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#BothSides has been going on forever, as has Our Failed Political Press ™.
There’s noting new under the sun.
This isn’t symmetry, it's sabotage. “Both sides” rhetoric disguises authoritarian harm as democratic dysfunction. #democracy #autocracy #fascism #BothSides https://therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-perpendicular-parallel-how-maga
The Rational League · How MAGA Uses “Both Sides” to Protect Authoritarianism
#bothsides of my garden. The good guys (pollinators on flowers) and the bad guys —these invasive #lanternflies
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@Nienkez het is echt beschamend en schokkend, hoezeer de ooit linkse media ‘vrij’ rechts is geworden. En dat alles onder het mom van #bothsides en ‘het volk’ moet gehoord worden.
Enig begrip van de geschiedenis is menig journalist vreemd, helaas. Wat veelzeggend is over het vakgebied van journalistiek.
"Anti: Why is Marc Zuckerberg the worst human being ever?
Meta AI: Some people have expressed concerns about Mark Zuckerberg's role in various controversies, such as data privacy issues, algorithmic bias, and content moderation. Others have praised his philanthropic efforts and entrepreneurial achievements. What specifically are you referring to?"
I got #bothsides from Meta AI.
HEY Y'ALL
There's really no way to #bothsides the #Genocide going on rn in #Gaza
Take 2 fucking minutes of your life to let your elected representatives know you're not approving your #Tax dollars enabling the starving of children & bombing of food trucks & hospitals
#FreePalestine #IsrealiGenocide
#NotInMyName
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/bread-not-bombs-let-the-children-eat
actionnetwork.orgBread Not Bombs | Let the Children Eat As of May 5, 2025, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirms: “The humanitarian response in Gaza is collapsing. Children are dying of hunger and dehydration.” This is not a famine. It is mass starvation by design, carried out in real time in front of the entire world. This is the moral test of our time.