Quote (Thor123422 @ Mar 28 2020 03:49pm)
Your first line is a perfect example of why I say you are a lazy thinker.
Your line of reasoning is that since politicians have always lied, therefore all lies from politicians are status quo. You are totally ignoring that there's different degrees to how much politicians lie and the importance of what they lie about.
Similarly, I could retool your argument with a simple word replacement of "politicians" with "journalists" and it would invalidate your entire line of argument because journalists have always lied (because they're people) even in the presence of ethical codes. Similarly, politicians have ethical codes they are expected to behave by but have always violated, Trump in particular has been an especially bad violator.
This is why I don't say you are a bad person, or you are disingenuous, or etc. because you're not. Your style of thinking is lazy. That's what defines you. Intellectual laziness.
Always nibbling little fella.
Politicians have lied. Some more some less. Journalistic standards have been fairly consistent prior to the last 4-5 years. To retool the argument you'd have to prove that the two are the same, meaning they have the same function, which they don't. A politicians job is not to disseminate information a journalists job is however. A politicians main function is to govern, while a journalists is to disseminate info. So no they aren't on equal footing and don't get to be measured by the same yard stick. As usual very crude, unscientific way to view the world by you.
Pretty sad that between all of you the only argument you came up with is: Trump lies therefore media lying not bad. Trump does lie to varying degrees, but that doesn't excuse media lying for a second.