#falseequivalency — Public Fediverse posts

"A woman is dead, and he’s already on television sanding down the moral edges, redirecting consequence away from power, and trying to make 'wait for more facts' sound like a substitute for basic decency."

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #MaskedThugs #Minneapolis #ScottJennings #CNN #media #amorality #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalency
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"A woman is dead, and he’s already on television sanding down the moral edges, redirecting consequence away from power, and trying to make 'wait for more facts' sound like a substitute for basic decency."

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #MaskedThugs #Minneapolis #ScottJennings #CNN #media #amorality #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalency
/18

"A woman is dead, and he’s already on television sanding down the moral edges, redirecting consequence away from power, and trying to make 'wait for more facts' sound like a substitute for basic decency."

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #MaskedThugs #Minneapolis #ScottJennings #CNN #media #amorality #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalency
/18

"A woman is dead, and he’s already on television sanding down the moral edges, redirecting consequence away from power, and trying to make 'wait for more facts' sound like a substitute for basic decency."

#ReneeGood #Trump #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #murder #MaskedThugs #Minneapolis #ScottJennings #CNN #media #amorality #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalency
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Bari Weiss And The Tyranny Of False Balance

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/28/bari-weiss-and-the-tyranny-of-false-balance/

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.

#USpol #USElection #FalseEquivalency

Man kann sich ja bei der @tazgetroete ja nicht sicher sein, ob da nicht vielleicht doch subversive Satiriker am Werk waren, aber erstmal ist diese Gegenüberstellung im Sinne eines Gleichgewichts des Schreckens empörend: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/113334028893583472
#falseequivalency #falsebalance

"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."

Es ist geradezu bösartig, zu suggerieren, die Demokraten würden die US-Präsidentschaftswahl auf dieselbe Weise behandeln wie die Republikaner. #bothsidesism #falseequivalency
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/11/house-democrats-jan-6-election-trump-raskin

"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."

#media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalency
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"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."

#media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalency
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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."

#media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalency
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/both-sides-audio

#FalseEquivalency: #VP #Harris is asked policy questions & she gives detailed responses; yet, #Trump is asked a policy question & he rambles on about everything else and never answers the question! Yet the media claims Harris has no policy! #WTF! Does the #MEDIA support #Trump?

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)

#Election2024

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

@barney

#FalseEquivalency
#BothSidesism

Please read our guidelines on pro-democracy election coverage, sign on to them, share them.

Use them to call out violations -- or exemplary reporting -- when you see them.

https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage

#Journalism #Democracy

#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

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

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

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

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

Head of Investigation of #HunterBiden is Made a #SpecialCounsel

#AttorneyGeneral #MerrickGarland made the announcement, the latest development in a long-running inquiry into the actions of the president’s only living son.

Really ridiculous #bothsidesism & this isn’t “journalists” doing it, it’s the damn #DOJ & #AG caving to #RightWing #GOP pressure & gives their #ConspiracyTheories a whiff of legitimacy.

Idiotic.

#FalseEquivalency
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/11/us/garland-doj-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@dmacphee Well stated. #Commercial #Media feeds on #FalseEquivalency.

Where critical thought withers & dies.

#falseequivalence #falseequivalency #whataboutism

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.