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"I crap on the floor instead of the toilet, so everyone else must do it too!"
I don't understand your point?
CicadaSpectre made a claim about a specific group (Lemmy liberals* that come here in bad faith), and you claimed that this applies to every single person on the planet
*By liberals, this includes Democrats and Republicans in the US – we mean liberals like "liberal democracy" not like Trump uses it
Oh, thanks for the clarification. I was saying that all sides have people that do things in bad faith, not that all people do it.
I didn't know that most people were referring to liberal democracy, thought everyone here just hated the left for some reason lol
I know, no objection there, just trying to explain.
We consider ourselves the left. We think both parties are really the same where it counts:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1098814
You're assuming that just because one thing is bad, all similar things must be equally bad.
To use a far less crude analogy: If you were stabbed with a knife in a back alley, that would be pretty horrible, but if you were to be operated on by a doctor, they would still cut you open, but it wouldn't be a bad thing like the first one.