The APnews top headline of the day is about how both parties are preparing for post-election lawsuits.
It makes it sound like they're equivalent.
One party is suing to break the system. To disqualify votes. To cast doubt on the whole process. In order to legitimize their attempts to seize power even when they get fewer votes.
The other party is suing to make sure every vote counts and the results are respected.
They are not the same.
"It’s also a bilateral marvel, applying the same standards to #BothSides & pressing them for answers on where they stand. As opposed to propagating #FalseEquivalency, however, the formula yields unmistakable distinctions: #Harris is a reasonable, conventional #politician playing for support among traditional #Democratic constituencies, & not so eager to discuss #policy changes that might endanger it; #Trump is a lying, confused and hate-filled candidate motivated not by ideas but by impulses."
"But when we allow the cult of Both Sides to shape our own minds, ethical judgement and factual investigation disappear, and with them any chance for constitutional order and democracy.
Ethical judgement would involve a notion of right and wrong, which the activity of the priests erodes. The worse the evil of one side, the more artfully it must be forgiven, and the more viciously the other side must be berated."
"These are, rather, articles of faith. Once accepted, they enable the public performance we wrongly call 'media.' Both-Sideism does not mediate but mystify. Its practitioners, called 'anchors' or 'publishers,' are shamans or priests. Mystifiers. …
All shamans do this: they insist that their dogma must be our reality."
Timothy Snyder offers brilliant analysis of the "dualist cult" of both-sidesism that rules the roost in US corporate media, and reflects the expectations of the American people. It's a kind of religion, he says,
"No data from the world around us indicates that two is the correct number of perspectives, nor that any two perspectives, once chosen, would be equal."
Well, well! The centre-right normies have turned on Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnUPuA08UUo
Centre-Right Normie Slams Trump and #FalseEquivalency (interesting to watch)
Americans: Send this video to GOP me-maw and pe-paw
2/ Posted in the comments in the thread below the cartoon:
#irony #FalseEquivalency #propaganda #NYT
Oh Jeezus,
'“Donald Trump tried to throw away your votes” is a new rhetorical way to frame his effort to overturn the 2020 election.'
From Shane Goldmacher @nytimes.
Really Shane? A "new rhetorical way?"
Stating facts is a "new rhetorical way?"
JFC. I may have to unsubscribe if you keep framing things so shittily. #uspol #nytimes #falseEquivalency #BS #iCallBullShit
>> #FalseEquivalency. "ICC prosecutor compares Hamas to the IRA"
There's #FalseEquivalence, but even #SimonHarris, #Irish PM, compared #Hamas to #IRA.
Most significant difference between them is that one is #eliminationist while the other was not.
#TheTroubles were a conflict between #Catholics and #Protestants on whether to separate from #UK or remain.
That's not what Hamas is trying to do. Its charter calls NOT for a separate state from #Israel but Israel's destruction
#FalseEquivalency
#BothSidesism
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#RobertHur, #SpecialCounsel investigating Joe #Biden’s handling of #ClassifiedDocuments, is not expected to bring charges
#FalseEquivalency
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/politics/special-counsel-hur-biden/index.html
#MerrickGarland Testifies
#Republicans Set to Grill #AttorneyGeneral in #House Hearing
This is Merrick #Garland’s first appearance before the #HouseJudiciary Cmte since a special counsel brought 2 #criminal #indictments against #Trump & a plea deal for #HunterBiden collapsed.
#HouseRepublicans #GOP #AbuseOfPower #FalseEquivalency #CognitiveDissonance #ProfessionalVictims #Propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/20/us/garland-house-judiciary-hearing?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Over the past several months, #Trump has kept a close watch on #HouseRepublicans’ momentum toward impeaching President #Biden. Trump has talked regularly by phone w/members of the #ultraconservative #HouseFreedomCaucus & other congressional #Republicans who pushed for #impeachment…. Trump has encouraged the effort both privately & publicly.
#MAGA #FalseEquivalency
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/politics/trump-gop-biden-impeachment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Yes, Garland should have appointed a #specialcounsel to investigate the Biden classified docs.
Why?
Don't give the #insurrectioncaucus the chance to gain any traction on one more #nothingburger
Get out in front of it.
We already know the narrative of #falseequivalency they're trying to build. This shows the #JusticeDepartment is doing its job impartially.
#Garland is fighting at least a three-front war against:
1) Trump.
2) GOP House "oversight" by traitorous fucking lunatics.
3) Trigger-happy liberals who attack him with anything-but-friendly fire for *doing his job* as methodically as necessary.
Sean Prophet 