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This is just "both sides are equally wrong/bad."
Idk about equally, but often enough, both sides are indeed wrong.
"Enlightened centrists". I make fun of you people constantly.
Nothing wrong with accepting that both sides of anything have good and bad shit going on. I couldn't imagine just blindly following one side 100% even when they can also do questionable stuff.
Sure, but the problem is that rather than arguing the finer points of how to combat climate change, for example, we have to argue about whether truth is truth.
There are leftists that get things wrong
It makes you look stupid tho
Yes, because you're so blinded by your indoctrination that you can't accept the flaws of "your" side.
“Climate change exists”
“Religion shouldn’t allow governments to prevent basic healthcare needs”
“January 6 was a failed insurrection”
These are the things that the right calls indoctrination.
And the hard left calls not important enough to bother voting.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here
Maybe I’m too naive, but I didn’t think they were referring to just politics. They were just referring to two people arguing.
You know, I think you're right. I'm so used to the phrase "both sides" meaning a specific thing it didn't register as anything else. If it had been phrased "both sides of an argument" I would have understood.
Does it normally refer to politics? Maybe for Americans, and they are responsible for a good deal of the English language content online. Right, and the 2 party system...
I'm with you, though, both sides means both sides of an argument. I think the news had something on that a while back- for every climate scientist they interviewed, they had to also interview a climate denier to present a "fair and balanced" view XD