Thread by @Dreamweasel

D: Republicans are doing a bad thing, and should stop

R: But I found some Democrats who also do the bad thing

D: THEN EVERYBODY SHOULD STOP DOING THE BAD THING

R: No

D: Why not?

R: Hypocrisy loophole

D: What’s that

R: As long as we can find one example of a Democrat who does the bad thing, the GOP can continue to do the bad thing indefinitely without fear of reprisal

D: That sounds insane

R: And by “the bad thing”, we mean any bad thing

R: If everybody does a bad thing, it means that nobody is responsible for it

D: That is the literal antonym of the truth

R: And yet, our national discourse is beholden to a “balanced” discussion where my views must be respected

D: Or what?

R: We accuse the MSM of being biased

D: Why is it so hard for you to just stop doing the bad thing

R: Because we’ve dug in our heels & spent the last year & change insisting the bad thing is actually a good thing

D: Are you blind to the consequences

R: Those are easy to ignore if we provide other explanations

D: If you have one half of the public overwhelmingly insisting a bad thing should stop & the other half of the public overwhelmingly insisting the bad thing isn’t their fault, it’s absurd to nitpick exceptions when you could be focusing on STOPPING THE BAD THING

R: 😂 Again: no