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I mean if one guy murders 7 people and the other murders 70, sure there's a difference, you're right.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

One is a good cop, the other is a bad cop. But the good cop enables the bad cop. So both are still pigs.

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Amazing how people can know of the whole "Good cop, bad cop" routine and still fall for it. It really is an effective tactic, even at scale.

[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

People "fall for it" because the both teams bad narrative helps the super bad team seem less super bad in comparison.

If the conversation appropriately punished the super bad the whenever they did something super bad, then maybe voters would actually overhwleming not vote them and force them to change. Instead, by assuming the super bad team will be super bad, we get more upset when the people we thought were good guys do something bad, and we don't really give much conversation to the super bad team because we expected them to be evil.

Then, when its time to vote, someone can think "well both sides are evil but this one side did say something about an issue I care about, so I will vote them" and vote super bad and not feel too guilty about it.

I guess this yapping is to say the "both sides evil" narrative is really really bad in my eyes. I'm not feeling great today, sorry to take it out on this. Thanks for letting me yap.

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[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

JFC the amount of people in this thread who want a more palatable tyrant to be the next president, is concerning.

Good thing most of these never leave their parents’ basements though.

[–] iridebikes@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Eh. I want a retribution tour that is more damaging to Republicans than Trump has been to Democrats. I want total annihilation of the GOP.

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[–] NerdyTimesOrWhatever@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago

Claiming both are the same, this is impressive and sad. It indicates a serious misunderstanding of history since Reagan's tax changes amongst other policy changes. It shows people don't remember Citizens United. It means people don't remember the massive economic change the Ford vs Dodge decision had in the earlier 1900s.

We live in a world where it's easier to hold on to a belief than to challenge it. The amazing breadth of information we have access to can be frightening, but it shouldn't prevent you from researching and attempting to disprove your ideas.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

It's just a little genocide. It's not up to them to stop platforming it, stop asking. It's up to you to learn to swallow it.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

Thank God the Democrats sacrificed their majority to keep the filibuster

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