NotTRYINGtobeLame OP t1_j5mwu9q wrote
Reply to comment by spartacuscollective in I made a post attempting to illustrate liberal hypocrisy and it was removed. It seems every time I challenge someone's liberal stance, I get my comments removed or the post removed. Wtf mods? by NotTRYINGtobeLame
When did I claim that "no one can oppose" the GOP being asinine? I pointed out that both parties pad legislation with partisan pet projects. I didn't say no one could be outraged at the GOP for doing it; I merely meant to say it's hypocritical, at best, to fault one party and not the other when they do the same thing. Make sense? It's so common, it has varying terms. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark_(politics) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel
spartacuscollective t1_j5n38z5 wrote
I mean, is it a common practice? Yes, it's fairly common at least. Is this a particularly egregious and disgusting instance of the practice? I'd say yes to that as well.
But yes you are technically right to say both parties do it.
NotTRYINGtobeLame OP t1_j5n4nz1 wrote
I mean, if, from your perspective, this particular example seems like a "particularly egregious and disgusting instance of the practice," can you understand that your political opposition has looked at other examples (I won't try to name a specific because then we risk getting into a pissing contest over which one is really worse from whose perspective, and I'm just talking about the concept here) and felt that some examples of the Democrat Party doing it were equally "egregious and disgusting instance[s] of the practice" from their perspective?
I think my point is ultimately about perspective. When Reddit is lighting torches and waving pitchforks about the GOP doing some ridiculous shit, some example can generally be readily provided of the other side doing ridiculous shit. But Reddit dismisses that viewpoint because they see it as something ridiculous, rather than as the viewpoint of another person.
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