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"A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed, faulty, or false reasoni

"A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed, faulty, or false reasoning" What is the faulty reasoning here? Apart from "My side good, your side bad."

AnimalMuppet 1y ago
You can find incompetence in previous cabinet officials. This batch of cabinet officials has far more people who are far more incompetent and unqualified than any previous cabinet. The faulty reasoning is saying that "this is just like previous administrations". It's not.
- gadders 1y ago
  But the previous president was in the advanced stages of alzheimers and struggled to form coherent sentences. I think he alone beats anyone in the current organisation.
  - jmye 1y ago
    > and struggled to form coherent sentences As opposed to the current guy, who hasn’t completed a sentence or a thought in twenty years and regularly goes off on tangents about black people eating pets. Great take. Love when you folks make it clear you’re just here to shitpost dishonestly.
    - lesuorac 1y ago
      Nor can the current guy remember things for more than the day and the then he admitted it live on tv after taking a dementia test! Perhaps one of the more depressingly funny thing to learn is that in the first Trump term people would just steal papers and etc from Trump because by the end of the day he'd forget about something if there wasn't a sheet in front of him. And this would keep him from doing something crazy.
lesuorac 1y ago
The faulty reasoning is the conduct is different. Obama's and Hillary's blackberries were government procured devices altered by the NSA for security purposes. The current US defense secretary isn't doing that.
- gadders 1y ago
  What about Hillary's personal email server?
  - int_19h 1y ago
    It was pretty bad, and there should have been more serious consequences for sure. Did they discuss details of upcoming military operations on it, though? Because that's a whole other level of wilful negligence.
  - Sabinus 1y ago
    Hilary answered questions for 11 hours in front of a partisan House committee regarding her email server. Trump's admin won't get a fraction of that scrutiny.

AnimalMuppet 1y ago

You can find incompetence in previous cabinet officials. This batch of cabinet officials has far more people who are far more incompetent and unqualified than any previous cabinet. The faulty reasoning is saying that "this is just like previous administrations". It's not.

gadders 1y ago
But the previous president was in the advanced stages of alzheimers and struggled to form coherent sentences. I think he alone beats anyone in the current organisation.
- jmye 1y ago
  > and struggled to form coherent sentences As opposed to the current guy, who hasn’t completed a sentence or a thought in twenty years and regularly goes off on tangents about black people eating pets. Great take. Love when you folks make it clear you’re just here to shitpost dishonestly.
  - lesuorac 1y ago
    Nor can the current guy remember things for more than the day and the then he admitted it live on tv after taking a dementia test! Perhaps one of the more depressingly funny thing to learn is that in the first Trump term people would just steal papers and etc from Trump because by the end of the day he'd forget about something if there wasn't a sheet in front of him. And this would keep him from doing something crazy.

lesuorac 1y ago

The faulty reasoning is the conduct is different. Obama's and Hillary's blackberries were government procured devices altered by the NSA for security purposes. The current US defense secretary isn't doing that.

gadders 1y ago
What about Hillary's personal email server?
- int_19h 1y ago
  It was pretty bad, and there should have been more serious consequences for sure. Did they discuss details of upcoming military operations on it, though? Because that's a whole other level of wilful negligence.
- Sabinus 1y ago
  Hilary answered questions for 11 hours in front of a partisan House committee regarding her email server. Trump's admin won't get a fraction of that scrutiny.