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Bernie Sanders gets fact checked (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I give you a dollar and I give Steve a dollar, I've supported you both.

Your example is also wrong. BLM and KKK are organizations. You absolutely can support both organizations by giving them money. It makes you a hypocrite and means you don't believe in equality. But when has anyone claimed the United States isn't hypocritical?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Steve and me are entities. Democracy is an ideology.

You cannot support an ideology while also supporting its polar opposite.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

Yes, I can, if I choose to be a hypocrite. I can push for both.

Picture a seesaw. Polar opposite sides. Raising one lowers the other. We can support both sides with bricks to make it a table. Both sides are supported. But neither shows progress.

I think we're disagreeing on the word supported.