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Dave RahardjaHahaha, Mercury News (no link, fuck em) covered the Tesla Takedown protests today by asking for comments from…the president of Silicon Valley Association of Conservative Republicans, whose pearl of wisdom was that the “far-left” AOC will “destroy” the Democratic party. What the fuck.What absolute, irrelevant, bothsides-ing horseshit. Fuuuuck you Mercury News, for forcing a protest story into the tired old “Democrats in Disarray” cliché. Glad I dropped my subscription years ago.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TeslaTakedown</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bothsides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bothsides</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sfba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sfba</a>

Dave RahardjaThis gauge is machine-automated bothsides-ism, you realize that, right?This was found at the bottom of the article that discusses how the US Military is purging images of Enola Gay (the aircraft) thanks to Anti-DEI sweeps. How this article is “unfair left leaning” outside of making Trumpers look bad is beyond me, but there you go.EDIT: I was mistaken: the gauge as shown is in the “default” position before you make a selection. That…is TERRIBLE UX. The point stands though: this is automated both-sidesism, especially if the score is tied to each journalist’s compensation and promotion prospects. This is not a good idea.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fairness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fairness</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bothsides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bothsides</a> Article: <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029</a>

hskzoom‘Please let Mr Hitler speak’: the trouble with ‘hearing from both sides’ – the Stephen Collins cartoon<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2025/mar/07/please-let-mr-hitler-speak-the-trouble-with-hearing-from-both-sides-the-stephen-collins-cartoon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2025/mar/07/please-let-mr-hitler-speak-the-trouble-with-hearing-from-both-sides-the-stephen-collins-cartoon</a><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/falsebalance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#falsebalance</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cartoon</a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/StephenCollins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StephenCollins</a>

MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@arrrg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@arrrg</a> LET IT BE KNOWN...Mugsy's Rapsheet is a "No '<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> Do It' Zone." 👆

MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Itchy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Itchy</a> NO <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> should have attended last light's speech. What would be the point? They KNEW The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NarcissistInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NarcissistInChief</a> was going to self-flagellate himself all night as the Greatest President since Abraham Lincoln. 🤦‍♂️ ANYTHING they said or did would simply have made them look like cranks and fed into the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeWilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JoeWilson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YouLie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouLie</a> narrative.A half empty chamber would have been a more powerful statement. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlGreen</a>

Dave RahardjaHAHAHAHAHA<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/lol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lol</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/lmao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lmao</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bothsides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bothsides</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bullshit</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114106961500515151" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114106961500515151</a>

sovtwit<a href="https://mstdn.social/@noelreports" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@noelreports</a> the Jews weren't great fans of hitler either.. strangest thing really... <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bothsides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bothsides</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpDictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpDictatorship</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PutinWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PutinWarCriminal</a>

-0--1-<a href="https://mastodon.social/@thepoliticalcat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@thepoliticalcat</a> And the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Media</a> generally does not help. It <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> every issue. In general, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheFourthEstateIsDead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheFourthEstateIsDead</a> only <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YellowJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YellowJournalism</a> exists. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClickHunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClickHunger</a> drives what is written and presented. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Headlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Headlines</a> are incomplete to get you to click just to see the completed thought. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Adjectives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Adjectives</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Adverbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Adverbs</a> are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Inflamatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inflamatory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Scary</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mystical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mystical</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Magical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Magical</a>

Ⓐ Dirk Ritter<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@chojzina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@chojzina</a> Jo. Eigentlich doch seit Jahren bekannt - inkl. der schieren Arroganz des <a href="https://deppenkessel.de/tags/%C3%96RR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ÖRR</a>, der bisher noch die fundierteste Kritik an privatisierten Propagandashows mit 'ner lachsen <a href="https://deppenkessel.de/tags/bothsides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bothsides</a> Geste wegwischte - trotz krasser, mehrfach nachgewiesener Einseitigkeit.

Joe Vilas<a href="https://triangletoot.party/@jason0x21" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jason0x21</a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/@shovemedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@shovemedia</a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a>

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺Can we go back to calling "the left" society please? If nothing more, it'll upset Steve Bannon.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FalseEquivalence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FalseEquivalence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Marginalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marginalisation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OvertonWindow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OvertonWindow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AltRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AltRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FarRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FascistPlaybook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FascistPlaybook</a>

Adam BeerIn <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxj7mfdazVM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the latest episode</a> of The Urbanist Agenda, guest Ellory Smith argues, "infrastructure is apolitical…because…it benefits everybody."Unfortunately, this is projection, and the most insidious form of both-sides-ing: the unknowing kind.Ellory is assuming that no one could possibly be so brazenly evil as to disagree with this goal, but they do. They really, really do. :dragon_sad:In reality, the fact that infrastructure helps everyone is precisely what makes it directly political, because helping everyone is a Left-wing value. It is diametrically opposed to the Right-wing value of leveraging one's advantages over other people into successively greater advantages.And for those of you who are new to this: yes, this does in fact mean that the Left side of the political spectrum is the only side that is even remotely morally defensible. :drgn_knife_angry: If a supposed Right-winger seems to want to help everyone, then there are three possibilities. The most likely is that your definition of, "everyone," excludes the people they're screwing over. The second-most likely is that they're just lying. The last option is that their personal politics are incoherent, probably because they don't know what "Left" and "Right" actually mean.(cc <a href="https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@notjustbikes</a>)<a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/apolitical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#apolitical</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/bothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bothSides</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/definition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#definition</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/leftist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#leftist</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#podcast</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#projection</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/rightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rightWing</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/urbanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#urbanism</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/urbanistAgenda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#urbanistAgenda</a>

Jennie BreedenThrowback Thursday - We don't always have to listen to both sides. <a href="https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/15733" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/15733</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freespeech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/flatearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flatearth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bothsides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bothsides</a>

C.<a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mmasnick.bsky.social</a> Great article.If the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a>'s vaunted free press was doing its job, it would be asking blunt, pointed questions of these wannabe-dictators, like "Why are you claiming the right to revoke a non-existent license from a television network?" or "Why are you threatening internet sites with Section 230 when the legislation and the courts agree you have no role in it?"But instead, they continue to crank out normalizing, both-sides-ist garbage for their precious View from Nowhere.Your <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/republic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#republic</a> was nice, while it lasted.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreePress</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#press</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MainstreamMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MainstreamMedia</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/LegacyMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LegacyMedia</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SaneWashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaneWashing</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️The New York Times Pitchbot with an excellent example of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> journalism. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Journalism</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Parody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Parody</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Humor</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Media</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a>

skuaIf the Hamas attack in southern Israel, and the killing of children that happened in it, of 7 October 2023 was deliberately timed relative to the US election cycle, then the timing was brilliant.The USA now stands exposed as a genocide-enabling exporter of terror and mass destruction."A more perfection union. Now with added genocide."And <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> (Democratics and Republicans) are in on the slaughtering continuing.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DamnHamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DamnHamas</a>

notes"Conflating neo-Nazis with protesters for Palestinian human rights is in itself problematic, but blurring the hard right’s direct connection to white nationalism with “let’s be fair to both sides” comments was inexcusable." <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-11-22/morning-joe-cnn-bend-the-knee-to-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-11-22/morning-joe-cnn-bend-the-knee-to-trump</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nazi</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/NeoNazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NeoNazi</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WhiteNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhiteNationalism</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a>

MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘COLOR ME SHOCKED (really.)You know those canned "Verify" news segments on your local CBS affiliate?Last night they answered the question: "Will T****'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> cost you more money?"Instead of a wishy-washy "maybe", they gave an actual YES (though they DID try to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> it at the end.)They failed to mention though that if <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Import" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Import</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prices</a> go up, DOMESTIC prices will rise to match (just shy of the import price.) <a href="https://www.khou.com/video/news/verify/money-verify/tariffs-proposed-by-donald-trump-would-raise-costs-for-americans/536-74b03b83-5e2b-4abc-b18b-f35eaa207641" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.khou.com/video/news/verify/money-verify/tariffs-proposed-by-donald-trump-would-raise-costs-for-americans/536-74b03b83-5e2b-4abc-b18b-f35eaa207641</a>

kevinin the last few days i’ve got the <a href="https://friendsofdesoto.social/tags/dempol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dempol</a> sense that y’all are happy to give rump enough rope to hang himself. why is nobody calling out the fact that he hasn’t signed the required ethics pledge?it’s either a law or it isn’t. <a href="https://friendsofdesoto.social/tags/ethicsPledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ethicsPledge</a> put up or shut up. <a href="https://friendsofdesoto.social/tags/bothsides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bothsides</a>

Isabel RuffellI noted for the first time this morning that the pusllanimous media have started using "vaccine sceptic" instead of more accurate terms such as "science denier" or "malignant fool".<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BothSides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BothSides</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UKMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKMedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AntiScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiScience</a>

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