It makes it so that when they are caught and called out in it, that it comes across as a no u. Because they already accused you of it first. Then at the very worst for them, it will be one of those well, both sides are bad dismissals.
The "our" is, quite interestingly really, not about Americans in general, if you notice. Almost like the 1% win says that perhaps some compromise about how things are run would be in order, and republicans are immature babies abusing the modern era of information technology to avoid participation in a tried and true democracy.
Yea it’s amazing how the internet has somehow made us all dumber. You’d think having all the world’s history and information available instantly would make us smarter but when people can’t tell the difference between data and opinion it’s pretty easy for manipulation and misinformation. Pretty fucking sad really.
Accusation in a mirror. They make up crimes they want to commit then accuse the other side of them. Then they get to do those crimes because "the Left did it first".
Yes, when the accusations are the same then the fight becomes white noise.
Think of kids in the back seat of a car. If the two kids are going "Bobby is on my side of the seat!" "Nuh-uh, Sally is on my side of the seat!" then the fight turns into white noise and you yell at both of the kids to shut up and behave! Where if the argument is "Bobby's playing his switch too loud!" "Well sally won't stop singing!" you can tell bobby to turn the headphones on, and Sally to be quieter. Different complaints lead to different solutions, but the same complaint is just noise!
The thing is…..they got the profiles right for their protesters….if was paying people to protest I’d be getting poster type people….not incel, socially awkward looking types
accusation in a mirror is a propaganda strategy made famous by none other than the nazis. Be sure to click the description tab in the wiki to see the basic explanation and nazi connection. The right has used this method dramatically since maga and Trump has come around. Packing the court, illegals, conflating patriotism and religion with nationalism, George soros, election interference, etc. pretty much all their major talking points have been some form of double standard hyper bullshit.
During the 2024 election, whenever JV Pence was asked about Jan 6th, or if Trump actually won in 2020, he deflected to "Twitter censored posts about Hunter Biden". As if Trump whipping up an angry mob with lies and pointing them at the Capitol with violent intent was equivalent to the Biden campaign (Trump was President at the time - it wasn't even government censorship) asking twitter to take down dick pics of the candidate's son.
There was a day during the 2024 election where headlines about JD Vance's deflection about twitter censorship and headlines about Elon Musk taking down posts critical of Trump were right next to each other.
That has been often true but is also kind of a lazy way to evaluation things. Obviously there is no evidence of people being paid to protest. And on the other side, bribing people isn't paying to protest.
And the thing being referred to is the most ineffectual sorts of bribes. You don't know who someone voted for so bribing them to vote a certain way is just a fast track to losing your wealth. Unless I'm misunderstanding what happened.
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u/beerbellybegone 2d ago
Every accusation is a confession