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  Make it illegal or fineable for a politician to lie.
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. >
  
  Yeah that's what we need not a higher minimum wage free healthcare and better education or anything >
  
  Not “instead of” but “as a prerequisite to any cooperation or meaningful change”. So long as people demonize folks who disagree with their opinions or have a different worldview, nothing gets done. >
  
  First of all, I think people forget that there have been actual fist fights and duels among politicians in the past. The idea that we're in some uniquely partisan place these days doesn't ring true for me.
  Second, the scoring method here assumes that we have two sides arguing in equal levels of both good faith and bad faith. If one side is actively trying to do anti-democratic things and the other side calls them out for it, is that undignified? >
  
  
  If one side is actively trying to do anti-democratic things and the other side calls them out for it, is that undignified?
  
  To the side being traitors? Yeah they absolutely think it's undignified, because they're trash >
  
  And that's the side making the noise here. >
  
  As is tradition >
  
  Not seeing how it's a bad thing to point out a person or group of people's morally reprehensible deeds.  If a person or group of people repeatedly does evil things at some point it's totally fair to call them evil.