Oh but I’m sure we can trust the news coming out of the US buddy. Such a great brain

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        Literally this, their opponents are the bad guys and they’re against them making them the good guys.

        Anything more complicated than this binary and they have to come up with an actual reason for why what they do and believe is good.

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      It’s very important for them to find a middle ground between “doing a genocide” and “not doing a genocide.”

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      Makes them look intelligent without having to do any real research or analysis

      Also they’re against radicalism in general so both sides have to be bad

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      It is algorithmic and requires zero effort while still allowing you to feel slightly more smart than the totally-biased person who only listens to one side.

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      It’s a weird pivot from when they yell at us for “both sidesing” things because we think democrats and republicans suck, not realizing we are criticizing them both from the left.