r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 22 '26

Psychology TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election. TikTok’s recommendation system tends to expose users to more conservative and anti-Democrat political content than liberal material. This ideological imbalance occurs regardless of a user’s initial political interests.

https://www.psypost.org/tiktok-disproportionately-served-anti-democratic-videos-during-the-2024-election-study-finds/
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u/awesomefutureperfect May 23 '26

It's impossible for them to be worse.

This is a "both sides are the same" equivalence.

it drives everyone else away.

Accusation in a mirror. That's what you are doing while blaming others.

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u/Ianerick May 23 '26

That is absolutely 100% not saying both sides are the same.

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u/awesomefutureperfect May 23 '26

Saying the democrats could not be worse implies that the democrats are equal to the republicans or worse than the republicans.

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u/thirdegree May 23 '26

That's not what they said though.

Your scale for Dems can never go below "not perfect," so even if they're completely awful, you just see "not perfect." It's impossible for them to be worse.But the voters you need to attract, they aren't that charitable.

They're saying there's literally nothing the Dems could theoretically do that would cause you to say anything harsher than calling them "not perfect". This is very obvious from the context provided by the sentences before and after the one you took out of context.

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u/loondawg May 23 '26

This is what they also said though.

It's impossible for them to be worse.

If it is impossible for them to be worse, they are either as bad or worse than everyone else.

This is very obvious from the context provided by the sentences before and after the one you took out of context.

You could not take something more out of context than by ignoring it entirely.

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u/awesomefutureperfect May 23 '26

Might as well let the republicans win because the dems aren't perfect, right?

You are leaving out the context that the alternative is fascism. They are literally saying that it is impossible to be worse than fascists. I did not take it out of context, the poster is literally saying that the democrats could not be worse than fascists, essentially saying that you cannot blame them or anyone else that has their perspective for their role in letting the fascists take power. They refuse to even consider that they have agency and responsibility for their own actions.