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So again the hn hypocrisy doesn’t matter. The only thing on the line for me is whether my imaginary internet points balance increases or decreases.

The feds on the other hand have the power to send you to federal prison or to pardon you and literally pay you off.

Given that we don’t have God himself running for president, we have to suffice with imperfect representation. And so yes I end up picking a side because that’s the system we have at the moment.

As to your point about “picking sides” - why aren’t you upset about the pardons yourself in that matter? Shouldn’t they be held accountable?


HN is a collection of people with varying viewpoints and backgrounds posting arbitrarily throughout the day. There is no single position to be hypocritical of.

The “Hypocrisy” you are experiencing here is just you having to sort through other people’s opinions and getting upset at the ones that disagree with yours.


In case you’re one of the lucky 10000 today, or someone else reading this chain is, there’s a term for that called the goomba fallacy[1]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy




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