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Both Sides is quite the global, age-old narrative that most people are vulnerable to. The two sides couldn't be more different than ever, if you'd care to see w

Both Sides is quite the global, age-old narrative that most people are vulnerable to. The two sides couldn't be more different than ever, if you'd care to see what Biden and Democrats have actually passed in the last 16 months. There's been more fury over Pelosi buying shares of US companies than there was over Trump pumping stocks on national TV, or about the leadup to Roe vs Wade, or about the right's attack on democracy. Which is what both sides fallacies has always done, always, by default it serves the shittier of two sides and makes people disinterested or impractical. And now it's louder and more exploited than ever thanks to social media. Thanks to you. If you are a proponent of the Both Sides Fallacy in the year 2022, you need a hard look at reality of the last 100+ years and the last 16+ months. You're helping the red wade and helping to move the Overton Window further right, learning nothing from the protest and non-voters of 2016, paying no attention to the reality of how many positive things have been done in the past 16 months, and things that have been 180 different from the previous four years, but you just see the Both Sides headlines.

Dracophoenix 4y ago
>If you are a proponent of the Both Sides Fallacy in the year 2022, you need a hard look at reality of the last 100+ years and the last 16+ months. You're helping the red wade and helping to move the Overton Window further right, learning nothing from the protest and non-voters of 2016, paying no attention to the reality of how many positive things have been done in the past 16 months, and things that have been 180 different from the previous four years, but you just see the Both Sides headlines. If you're going to criticize over-simplistic narratives, consider the flaws of your own. "Both sides are the same" is not a fallacy when both parties have regularly voted to increase the power of the state, cater and pander to their chosen special interest groups at the expense of the average citizen, and continue to punch holes into enumerated rights of the constitution. If you are of the view that the ends justify the means so long as you get your favored party into power, then your methods are no better than those of the elephant men. There is nothing remotely logical about voting for either of the parties, even as a buffer against the excesses of the other. If you can only conceive of politics in terms of binary spectra, you've already lost.

Dracophoenix 4y ago

>If you are a proponent of the Both Sides Fallacy in the year 2022, you need a hard look at reality of the last 100+ years and the last 16+ months. You're helping the red wade and helping to move the Overton Window further right, learning nothing from the protest and non-voters of 2016, paying no attention to the reality of how many positive things have been done in the past 16 months, and things that have been 180 different from the previous four years, but you just see the Both Sides headlines. If you're going to criticize over-simplistic narratives, consider the flaws of your own. "Both sides are the same" is not a fallacy when both parties have regularly voted to increase the power of the state, cater and pander to their chosen special interest groups at the expense of the average citizen, and continue to punch holes into enumerated rights of the constitution. If you are of the view that the ends justify the means so long as you get your favored party into power, then your methods are no better than those of the elephant men. There is nothing remotely logical about voting for either of the parties, even as a buffer against the excesses of the other. If you can only conceive of politics in terms of binary spectra, you've already lost.