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CellBioGuy comments on Open thread, Sep. 21 - Sep. 27, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 25 September 2015 04:04:22AM 2 points [-]

more to the point, it gets to be used in an endless good cop bad cop routine in which political groups hang it over the heads if captive constituencies who get threatened with 'vote for us, the other guy is WORSE', and then nobody does anything since they can always claim tbat the other guy would have done worse or they would have done better.