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Originally Posted by #-3
But the entire point of the republicans making empty allegations, is so that people will use the phrase Both Sides, just by saying you have done their work for them.
And this is the entire game they are playing, I sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist, but it's true, they've admitted it publicly, nobodies even trying to hide it.
Joe Biden could come out and say the Republicans are communists that will destroy the economy, Nobody is going to run around saying both sides say the other side is full of economy ruining communists, they'll call Joe crazy.
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I mean, I see what you're saying, but it's crazy to me that we should just remove the phrase 'both sides' from our dialogue regardless of context. What are the limits of this? What about 'both sides of a piece of paper' or 'both sides of the street' or 'both sides of Mitch McConnell's face deserved to be slapped by every person in America who values democracy'?
This is part of the point I was making in the RBG thread yesterday too. People are so emotionally reactive right now that it's preventing them from exercising simple reading comprehension.
If Democrats were saying the same things about a communist takeover as the Republicans, I wouldn't see an issue with using the phrase both sides. Is that wrong?
I guess based on the reaction in this thread maybe you're right, that people are so wound up right now that the mere innocuous use of the phrase 'both sides' is enough to destroy intelligent conversation regardless of how it's used. Letting the Republicans own this phrase doesn't sit well with me either though.
Edit: Wait a minute, I didn't even use the phrase 'both sides' in my initial post that you replied to. I said 'both parties'. So is this about just banning the word 'both' in relation to US politics? Trump doesn't get to own the word 'both'.