5 ms·

Bothsidesism has become a tactic to normalize when one side does something asymmetrically and objectively awful.

• el_duderino_ 2y ago
  You just demonstrated exactly what the comment was trying to express. Perfection.
  • nerdponx 2y ago
    And both things are true. Both parties do various bad things, and their supporters hide behind the "well the other guy is bad too!" argument. The best candidate is the one who has the lowest expected badness; and yes, their chosen party membership is a valid and at least somewhat-informative prior on badness, depending on your personal badness disutility function.
• Kiln6125 2y ago
  The amusing thing is that I genuinely do not know which side you mean to refer to here. I guess it really does prove the point above.
• Xcelerate 2y ago
  This is a comment that both sides would make.