Next time someone tells you the parties are the same...

[SunSeeker]

Tell them this:

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[niyad]

1. Exactly.

[sheshe2]

2. Recommend!

[crickets]

3. Excellent! K&R

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Might be a few more differences, too...

[SunSeeker]

5. And that's just scratching the surface! nt

[LAS14]

6. When is the last time anyone tried to tell anyone that the parties are the same?

Decades ago, yes, you could hear that. But today????????

[Whiskeytide]

8. MSM says it every damn day. n/t

[LAS14]

9. Not that I've heard. Give me a quote. I've been pretty impressed...

... that the MSM finally learned it's lesson and ALWAYS, on all outlets, describes the claim of a stolen election as a LIE. They didn't use to do that.

[flying_wahini]

11. My nephews say it ALL the time. No direct quote tho.....

[Whiskeytide]

15. On the election specifically, I'll agree. Most of the media ...

… calls that like it is. But we hear frequently about both sides being no different or just as bad, etc… on most everything else. I don’t have specific quotes. Just my anecdotal experience watching. But there is clearly a strong element in the news that wants democrats and Biden to have problems, be in disarray, and generally flounder. At least that’s my take.

[SunSeeker]

18. This Salon article gives some quotes of the MSM's "bothsidesism" aka both sides are the same.

https://www.salon.com/2021/07/31/both-sides-journalism-isnt-even-journalism--at-this-point-its-republican-propaganda/

[SunSeeker]

17. It's what your conservatives friends say when they can't defend something the GOP did.

Both sidesism also rears it's ugly head in whataboutism. Like when they say Hillary had confidential documents too.

I have a friend, a former Republican now identifying himself as an independent, who always says both sides are the same every time we talk politics.

[VWolf]

22. I hear it from my brother-in-law all the time

I'm trying my hardest to win him over, but it is a slow slog.

[IronLionZion]

23. Malicious people who want to discourage voters

[Cha]

7. Rt💕TY, SunSeeker.. anyone

who spews Dems & Magats are the same is a GD brainwashed Idiot.

[Tommymac]

10. K&R for Truth nt

[Upthevibe]

12. Kick. N/T

[orleans]

13. k&r nt

[lambchopp59]

14. Bastion of the mentally lacksidaisical.

The bullshit excuse among those whose knowledge base since high school consists of popular entertainment trivia, all too susceptible to the emotionally charged stupidity espoused by the RW. Often it may be best to leave the fact-lethargic to their non-participatory status, since all the empirical evidence in the world can't convince them the world isn't flat.
Within entire regions of California decimated by wildfires, devastating drought, unprecedented heat, unbreathable air and exorbitant fuel costs still stand the morning red-hatted Kaucastion Koffee Klatch still professing that climate change is a "Chinese hoax".
Bekause white Jeebus, Trump and Fox News don't lie.

[WarGamer]

16. +1000 nt

[uponit7771]

19. K&R,

[raccoon]

20. Wish I had 100 recs to give this. Nt

[betsuni]

21. 80% of corporate campaign donations go to Republicans.

That bullshit about Democrats beholden to corporations is ridiculous. Anyone who says that should be ashamed of themselves.

[SunSeeker]

24. Agreed. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Twitter reply:

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[SunSeeker]

26. Love it! nt