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« on: November 17, 2017, 12:40:53 AM »
Definitely the center-left. Not saying that we're completely free of this stupid and irritating as hell fallacy but all the other ones have a special fondness for it:

Far left: Only way to defend the repulsive dictators and some other world leaders so many of them are quite fond of.
Center: "BOTH SIDES DO IT"
Center-right: Kind of the inverse of the far left, use it to defend bad US foreign policy moves or awful non-socialist world leaders, and to defend people like Roy Moore and Trump while emphasizing they don't like them.
Far right: See basically both the far left and the center-right.

...proven recently by the center-leftists not just endlessly screaming about Trump and Moore in regards to Al Franken.
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2017, 01:44:44 AM »
I very rarely see the far-right attempt to justify their viewpoints to other people, so I'll go with them.
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2017, 02:01:17 AM »
Quote from: White Trash on November 17, 2017, 01:44:44 AM
I very rarely see the far-right attempt to justify their viewpoints to other people, so I'll go with them.

"What about black on white crime" is a pretty big one
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2017, 08:51:41 AM »
Quote from: Statilius the Epicurean on November 17, 2017, 02:01:17 AM
Quote from: White Trash on November 17, 2017, 01:44:44 AM
I very rarely see the far-right attempt to justify their viewpoints to other people, so I'll go with them.

"What about black on white crime" is a pretty big one

Also "what about Antifa?, "what about Dresden?", etc.
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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2017, 09:02:19 AM »
Center left,  then far left.
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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2017, 09:38:53 AM »
I misread the question and voted far-left.
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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2017, 09:40:13 AM »
"Misread the question". Yeah, right, comrade.
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2017, 09:42:15 AM »

That's going in my sig lol Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2017, 01:40:07 PM »
I'm going to go with libertarians. There's generally no incentive for them to defend a "side" and their ideology generally believes that everything's terrible except the free market, so whataboutisms are pointless.
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« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2017, 02:16:33 PM »
« Edited: November 17, 2017, 02:35:55 PM by Crumpets »
Far right - there's basically nothing you can accuse them of that they won't proudly wear as a badge of honor.
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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2017, 03:13:48 PM »
Quote from: Crumpets on November 17, 2017, 02:16:33 PM
Far right - there's basically nothing you can accuse them of that they won't proudly wear as a badge of honor.

They deflected to Bill quickly when The Great Trump was getting accused. Even if it's a badge of honor, they'll "whatabout" anyway just to be a troll.

The far-left is the real answer here, since they usually prefer the "buh look dat healthcare/education" approach when dealing with left-wing dictators. To them, the end justifies the means.

And given that it's the centre-left that's most obsessed with Russia...well...
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« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2017, 01:03:07 AM »
The center-left
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« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2017, 01:26:55 PM »
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