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whydid | 10 months ago

This is an example of the False Equivalency logical fallacy.

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kubb|10 months ago

When you feel real love for your favorite celebrity convict, whose incompetence is beyond denying, you'll put your mind to work to search for any device that will enable you to excuse anything he does and who he nominates.

People will talk about "politicians being incompetent", or act like actually anyone who has ever been in the office was like this. It's a pretty close and comforting way to deal with the reality of supporting a fraud without having to admit that you were duped.

gadders|10 months ago

"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|10 months 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.

lesuorac|10 months 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.

verisimi|10 months ago

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pjc50|10 months ago

> government is immoral

Maybe you're going to find out how much more immoral warlordism is. "Not having a government at all" is a weird fantasy of teenagers.

(the really odd combo is people who hold both the "government is immoral, especially the US federal government" and the "the US federal government should go to war with China" combo, which a few moments thought will show the contradiction)

DonHopkins|10 months ago

>I don't have a preference between blue or red.

In other words, you prefer red, but prefer not to admit it.

yummypaint|10 months ago

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