Posted on 06/18/2025 6:09:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As I've been pointing out forever, liberals don't understand analogies, one of the most basic building blocks of logic, at least since Aristotle.
This failing has been on display at MSNBC for some years now. Whenever conservatives demand that the same standards be applied to Donald Trump as are applied to Democrats, MSNBC hosts charge: "Whataboutism!"
That's not "whataboutism." It's called "the rule of law."
Whataboutism originally referred to the Soviet Union's practice of covering up the multiple failures of communism -- long food lines, shoddy apartments, no electricity, planes crashing, etc. -- by saying, But what about the crime rate in the United States? What about the civil rights abuses? What about Watergate?
In other words, whataboutism consists of changing the subject to some random failing of one's opponent.
[A friend traveling in Russia at the time reported that the Soviets' saturation coverage of the Watergate hearings did not have its intended effect. Instead of wowing Russians with the deficiencies of capitalism, actual Russians' main question to my friend about the hearings was: "Do all Americans have such nice shoes?"]
By contrast, analogies, especially in politics and the law, are used to vindicate the principle that like cases should be treated alike.
Liberals hate that. They refuse to accept generally applicable rules. The only question for them is: Whose ox is gored? If it's Trump, he's guilty, no further information is needed. But if it's a lefty who's done the same thing -- or 20 times worse -- it's: How dare you question this man's character?
On MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski said that equating Trump's possession of classified documents with Joe Biden's possession of classified documents was a classic case of whataboutism. Those aren't even like cases -- they're identical ones.
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Disjunctive
Demand syzygy now!!!!
/and stop plate tectonics!!!!
*blurted from somewhere out in far left field
😜
Can anyone tell me what the ‘e’ word?
Easy
Syllogisms shred leftoid arguments into non-existence.
They are, therefore, racist.
Erection
No but I can post Die Antwoord videos.
/the E word remains an enigma
**Erection**
No!
Really?
I remember Ann Coulter.
Socrates is a man.
Therefore, Socrates is a homosexual.
A high school friend used to say that when we were taught syllogisms. Odd that it captures Democrat thought, today.
Ann who?
I think my life is just one long syllogism or my calculations are a little off. I’m 97.351% sure of it. If I think about it too long my circuits overload and get hot and I have to lay down and forget about it for a day or two.
Hard to say...
Ann Coulter is still a good writer.
Funny, though, that if I’d noticed this was by Coulter I probably wouldn’t have clicked through.
No!
Really?
Vertical construction projects, especially involving metal structural work, are "erected"
Just because a moron is a moron, does not require me to prove it, just live next door perhaps; because I cannot afford to move.
Morons are VERY taxing.
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