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		hackyhacky on Dec 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will ba... Not all bad actors are equally bad. Hillary wasn't perfect. People didn't like her, and we got Trump. The Weimar Republic was corrupt and ineffective. The Third Reich was corrupt and extremely effective. Democracy is the history of choosing the least bad. If you consider all bads to be the same, you are not a responsible voter.

read_if_gay_ on Dec 13, 2020 [–]

> Democracy is the history of choosing the least bad.

Ok, so bothsidesism is justified since you acknowledge both sides are bad?

> If you consider all bads to be the same, you are not a responsible voter.

It’s a strawman to claim both sides are exactly the same level of bad. That’s not what GP was saying.

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