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[–]insta 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

its about the groups that came together in order to deal with a system that's stacked against them.

This is an unfalsifiable premise.

Well obviously Group A doing a bad thing just shows it's so necessary because Group B does so many more bad things!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Depends on what you call "a bad thing". Group A wasn't engaged in the anti-democratic activities of Group B. Group A tried to assure that the pupular vote would win this time (as opposed to what happened for Twittler 4 years ago, and what happened when the Supreme court gave the election to Bush Jr in 2000).

[–]insta 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

America is institutionally racist!

Why are there all these programs for people based on minority status then?

That's just more proof how racist it is because that's a necessity!

You guys believe so much stuff like this. It's an unfalsifiable premise.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not directly related to my points, or your earlier points, about Group A and Group B.

If instead you wish to discuss types of unfalsifiable premises (especially for Group A, though not excluding Group B), perhaps we could consider the recent presidential election:

1 The presidential election was rigged.

2 A person I know saw another person scan ballots twice.

3 Thus, this happened at several ballot counting centers, because it was possible.

[...]

(4 Thus Trump actually won the election)

(5 Stop the Steal!)

(6 Let's murder AOC and Pelosi, steal laptops, beat cops to death, park a truck full of weapons nearby)

(7 Invite our Supreme Leader back to the Capitol)

(8 Put people we don't like in concentration camps and kill them in gas chambers)

[–]insta 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think I brought my neck from you pivoting so hard into whataboutism to avoid my point.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You made two oversimplified points (a false equivalence about groups A & B, and a false equivalence of this argument to an 'unfalsifiable premise') and I responded directly to both of them. If there is another point you want someone to address, what is it? Are we now on 'whataboutism'? What about whataboutism? Spill the beans. What do you really want to know?