There's some truth and some idiocy behind this meme. Just because, for example, the US political system tends toward a two party system, does not mean you can always or always not find some amount of truth or good ideas based on what two parties tell you. In fact, the framing is irrelevant toward truth, and is even it's own type of bias. There are certainly some third rails neither side of a debate will touch, or some things both find the need to lie about. But in some cases someone is sort of right about something and sometimes people are just wrong.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Except the right's platform no longer has any aspect of it that's correct. They abandoned the conservative platform ages ago and went full fascist.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Be careful careful about arguing that on lemmy.world. I argued for a bit with a "both sides are bad", eventually called them out for being a Putin puppet, and got my post deleted by a Lemmy.world mod.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 months ago

To say nothing of what the Republicans are up to.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not me. I learned about all of them and have accepted them all. It's exhausting.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 11 months ago

When Orion aligns with cup noodle. Ramen, my brother. May Prince Phillip have mercy on your Chūnjié and bless your virgins in Ragnarok.

[–] sus@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or a syncretist.

[–] cameron_vale@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Or an independent researcher.

Because there's supposedly more to this than old secondhand stories.