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  Yeah that's what we need not a higher minimum wage free healthcare and better education or anything
context: I can get behind the spirit of this.  But it leaves waaaaay too much room for fascism, de-humanization and lies to go unchecked.  It is a recipe for false equivalence.  Defending storming the Capital in a violent attempted coup based on a lie will be rated the exact same as being outraged by that act.  These bias meters nearly always do false equivalences in order to promote the idea that they are unbiased. >
  
  Yes, the scale they are using always assumes everyone is acting in good faith so it hugely favors those who don't. >
  
  A 3 year old throwing a fit and an adult saying "hush, now" to a 3 year old throwing a fit are not the same thing.  This metric, no doubt rates them the same. >
  
  It wouldn't rate them at all because it is an inappropriate situation to measure with this metric. >
  
  I will never be polite to fascists.  Fuck them.  I will say horrible things about them as long as I live.  Fascists murdered many members of my family during the Holocaust.  Fascists deserve all the toxic vitriol directed at them.  They cannot be allowed to have even a small amount of power or it will fester and grow into a disease. >
  
  Not to mention that taking advantage of their opponents taking the "high road" is right out of the fascist playbook.