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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"bOtH sIDEs aRe BaD!"

Seriously one side is objectively worse.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not what I said at all. Try again.

This is about the common republican whataboutism, and clarifying that no political party is above scrutiny.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read his comment as also being addressed to the Republicans in the back: a concurrence, not a rebuttal.

[–] JackbyDev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So many people online take replies as contradictions when they're meant to be support. It's frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's not get this twisted, there are likely zero Republicans on lemmy, and if there are, they can only be counted on one hand.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Heh there are conservative comms, they are bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Your opinion was already addressed by "lemmy is an echo chamber".

[–] RandomVideos -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

One side isnt objectively worse

They are only worse for the majority of humans and other species that live on Earth

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How is that not objectively worse?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's the joke TM

[–] RandomVideos 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its not objectively worse to black holes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure bubonic plague isn't noticing, either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

People downvoting you clearly aren't reading past the first line....