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0 pointsgruez2mo ago0 comments

>But if you can talk yourself into believing that a mob sent to overturn the election and install the loser doesn't count as partisan violence, you can talk yourself into believing all kinds of catastrophes don't count.

How's this different than say...

>polls show 99% (or whatever) of people are against crime

>voters elect a soft-on-crime politician, crime goes up

>"I consider the fact that the soft-on-crime politicians got elected to have falsified all research that people are against crime"

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SpicyLemonZest2mo ago

It's not different. If my city elected a mayor whose buddies committed a robbery 4 years ago, and his first act in office was to parole the robbers, I would be incandescently furious and definitely say that anyone who supports him is pro-crime.

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