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I was raised that two wrongs don't make right. I'll continue to take the high road. I don't need to score points against anyone else.

• sangnoir 4y ago
  > I was raised that two wrongs don't make right. You'll likely make a terrible politician[1] then, because that is a terrible approach in game theory when facing an opponent who defects consistently. I was being descriptive - not prescriptive. This is now our political reality regardless of how we feel about it: politicians hold entire hearings to get 10-second sound-bites, and political operatives focus-group effective language which tends to be pithy and evocative (which gets called "misinformation" on HN when it's the other side doing it). Talking heads get coached on which phrases to use and the meme (in the original sense) gets spread and repeated by viewers/listeners. Asking people to stop using a specific term which was selected for being catchy is a losing battle - Pandora's box was opened on what are effectively PsyOps by political parties. 1. Jimmy Carter was a terrible politician in the same vein - he gave an honest answer when asked by the press if he had lusted after any woman who's not his wife. He is a good man, but that's not good politics.