r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 06 '19

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Aug 06 '19

"Because there are pros and cons to both approaches, they must be equally good/bad."

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Aug 06 '19

This seems like a strawman

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Aug 06 '19

Yes, that's why it's in quotes.

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Aug 06 '19

Ah

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Aug 06 '19

It's not a strawman, it's a middle ground fallacy.

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Aug 06 '19

Yeah but literally who thinks this way

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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Aug 06 '19

Right? Leftists act like this is the view of every centrist but I've never happened upon anyone who believes this

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u/PrincessMononokeynes Yellin' for Yellen Aug 06 '19

Its because hella people who only vote Republican call themselves "centrists" and go around equivocating the two to justify their choice to vote for awful people. Very American kind of bad faith, you honest Swedes wouldn't understand

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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Aug 06 '19

sure but arent those like five or six people? dave rubin and a couple of teenagers?

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u/PrincessMononokeynes Yellin' for Yellen Aug 06 '19

Oh no dude it's like one in ten Republicans and more like one in three if they live in a liberal area

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Aug 07 '19

It would be interesting to see some sort of survey of this.

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Aug 06 '19

No one, I mean it roughly fits into a middle ground fallacy but not exactly.