Thread by @sillymickel

This is an excerpt from my new book, *Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

it's about how people say, "the lesser of two evils is still evil."

being used currently, e.g., to promote Jill Stein over any Democratic candidate.

but it's b.s.

check it out>

CW22 LTE/1

“…the Republicans would encourage a narrative in the country & in the social media that goes like this: “The lesser of two evils is still evil.” Which has it that all evil things are equally bad.”

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CW22 LTE/2

“Say, you had to decide btwn 1 person on a hill being bombed out of existence vs 100 people on a nearby hill getting killed. This thinking on lesser evils being evil would have it that both instances—100 dead versus 1 death—are equally evil.”

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CW22 LTE/3

“It is saying your decision to allow 100 to die is not 100 times more evil than 1 death, but equivalent. Now, there are 99 people who would vehemently disagree with that, aren’t there? If they were allowed to live, that is.”

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CW22 LTE/4

“Let us take a real-world example. Is Hillary Clinton’s deletion of emails—many of which were probably the spam mails & niceties btwn friends that fill up all our inboxes—equal to a treasonous insurrection?

"Some people would have it so.”

>… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur…

CW22 LTE/5

“Hard core MAGAts would have it that [Hillary’s spam emails being deleted] is somehow far worse [than a treasonous insurrection against the U.S. which would end democracy]; go figure.”

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“Is a risk ratio for a possible adverse reaction to vaccines of 5 cases in one million shots, 0.000005 percent—which would get you anaphylaxis, not death, by the way—equal to a 1 in 100 chance of death ratio, 1 %, for not getting the vaccine?”

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CW22 LTE/7

“Again, some people would have it so. Lesser of two evils is still evil, right?”

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CW22 LTE/8

“*“Don’t know much about” arithmetic….*

“So these “lesser of two evils” arguments are ones where the factor of proportion is left out. These things are not seen as amounts, which can be compared, which are relative; but as absolutes.”

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CW22 LTE/9

“MAGAts are gullible innocents when it comes to slogans that require a little thinking to make out their absurdity, especially if it includes any arithmetic.”

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“I swear, these folks [MAGAts], who apparently slept through 3rd-grade numbers class, go into a brain fog & are unable to fathom the differences between amounts: Everything over a thousand is equally “a lot”;”

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“…everything under one & especially if there are zeros involved is equally “a little”; millions & billions are imagined the same way, let alone are they able to imagine the meaning of “trillions”;”

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“& forget about trying to get [MAGAts] to understand anything that involves percentages. You just get that blank look, before they change the subject or throw up one more “whatabouts” they’ve heard from Fox News.”

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CW22 LTE/13

“I know, the slogan—“the lesser of two evils is still evil”—sounds really cool & clever. Perhaps even profound. Still, this kind of ploy, which is one version of what is called a *false equivalency*, is bullshit.”

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CW22 LTE/14

“For there is nothing in life totally good & nothing totally evil. [LTE] asserts an absolutism emanating out of the thinking of religiophiles who seek to maintain such categories of white & black, goodness & sinners, for dogmatic reasons.”

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CW22 LTE/15

“[absolutism emanating from religiophiles who seek to maintain such categories of white & black, goodness & sinners, for dogmatic reasons] & as a way to make oneself better than others w an allowance to be judgmental...& punishing...of them.”

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CW22 LTE/16

“Yet, outside of dogma & with neutral analysis, we see such a thing—“the lesser of two evils is still evil”—could be said about virtually anything.”

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CW22 LTE/17

“[Lesser of 2 evils] being able to be said about everything, it would have it nothing could ever be done, no progress could ever occur, for one could find a negative consequence, however small or relatively small, for virtually everything.”

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CW22 LTE/18

“The lesser-of-two-evils-is-still-evil argument is so obviously stupid, yet it is tossed around as truth, infecting the minds of erstwhile activists or progressives.”

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CW22 LTE/19

“Put it this way: If the lesser-of-2-evils rationale is, as ostensibly it is,something meant to make folks think, to stop & consider… Then quite frankly it only works if the person is dim-witted. For any thinking wud cause one to reject it.”

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CW22 LTE/20

“So, no, it does not promote thinking; it shuts it down. It provides a convenient cover that allows people to continue in their comfortable and lazy ignorance.

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CW22 LTE/21

“That's its actual purpose, when used, actually. It is to shut down any further thought on the matter.”

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CW22 LTE/22

“The lesser-of-two-evils argument derails any positive change, any benefit to the people—save imaginary ones somehow not in any way possible seen as negative—for it sets up a “purity” standard for all decisions that is impossible to find.”

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CW22 LTE/23

“[The lesser-of-two-evils argument] prevents all progress, because there is always some way in which any particular thing can be seen by somebody—even if they have to distort it, which they will—by somebody as evil or simply not good.”

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“The twisted thinking required to do that is amplified when the argument involves percentages or numbers; for the comparison of them requires that ability to do arithmetic & to understand & be able to imagine numbers.”

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CW22 LTE/25

“That is totally lost on those whose ideas of science are found in the Bible, who have been taught to believe the insane propositions of the "religious,"..”

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“…[the religious] who have been indoctrinated to unthinkingly conform to the worldviews & conclusions of patriarchal strong-man authorities; & who—Herman’s fucking Hermits again—“don’t know much about” arithmetic.”

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CW22 LTE/27

“These, together, allow folks to criticize everything they want, indiscriminately, which maintains the status quo, which ultimately most benefits the wealthy overseers, the ones who have it good in the current system.”

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