• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    All of your questions about vaccines have nothing to do with the both-sides-ism in the media where they bring someone on who says vaccines work and another person on who says it doesn’t.

    Why are you not aware of this? You’re on c/news so you must be a news consumer…

    There is truth and there is fiction. Being a conservative or a progressive has no reflection on what is true and what is not, no matter how much the media (and you apparently) want to think otherwise.

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      8 months ago

      Progressive and conservative are two different approaches for policy. If the truth is known then there is no point discussing it. If the truth is unclear or the implications of that truth are unclear, then there needs to be discussion.

      Your example about both sidesism, bringing on an anti vaxxer, is either a deliberate straw man or a minor example that isn’t a good representative of the media trying to discuss both sides.

      But your last point I agree with completely. Neither progressives nor conservatives have the complete truth.

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        Your example about both sidesism, bringing on an anti vaxxer, is either a deliberate straw man or a minor example that isn’t a good representative of the media trying to discuss both sides.

        It happened constantly during COVID. Where were you?

        And now we have two antivaxxers running for president. One with a good chance of winning. And they get to talk about their “side” in the news too. Often unchallenged.

        I don’t know how you can not be aware of this.

        But your last point I agree with completely. Neither progressives nor conservatives have the complete truth.

        That’s not what I said. It’s also wrong.

        It is completely true that global warming is happening and humans are the cause no matter how much conservatives want to deny it.