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Criticism is not evaluated by where it comes from, but by whether it's true or false. If you don't put truth first, you don't get to have a say in anything anyway.
MAGA criticizes the Dems for being too far left. I criticize the Dems for being too far right.
We are not the same.
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a complaint about the dems being too far left has nothing to do with republicans though
The source does matter. I won't support a MAGAt just because they bash the Dems.
Then that makes you just another tribalist
Nope, I just don't accept criticism (or anything else really) from people who can't even form a coherent thought and are just regurgitating sound snippets from pundits...
The issue is the amount of bad faith critique levelled by people on the right. Supporting one of their valid criticisms without mentioning that they are normally full of shit appears like a blanket endorsement even though they may bring up only a single good point it’ll be seen as complete support.
Precisely my point.
Ya sure but that isn't really what your comment was saying which was more along the lines of "ignore all criticism until you know where it came from".
Anyways, if the criticism is valid, you are just plugging your ears at that point.
That's... nowhere close to what I actually stated.
Tbh, yeah, I'm a bit off base.
what kinda idiot lets themselves be concern trolled in 2026
like a good argument is valid regardless of source but republicans and their cognitive dissonance, double standards and general bad faith arguments means sitting through their bullshit in hopes of one is just silly
Sure but that's not the point. If someone gives good criticism, that criticism is good.
If you don't believe that, you're a tribalist.
The world gets better when everyone acknowledges and fixes their problems when they're pointed out. It doesn't matter at all whether it's a good person or a bad person that points them out, what a gift it is for someone to show you your flaws.
but no one should be expected to engage with repubs
they lost the privilege
Motivation and context matters because if you don't pay attention to them you risk ending up an accessory to some asshole's motte-and-bailey fallacy in progress.
But that would be obvious in the stupidity of the criticism
Not if the part you're responding to is the motte and you're ignoring the motivation and context!
Humans evaluate facts by the source. People trust their in-group. Someone is far more likely to listen to someone they trust and perceive as in-group than someone who's out-group, regardless of the facts.
Sometimes this makes sense. If a guy in a nazi uniform told me the bar down the street is a great time, I'm probably not going to go there.