1/ 'Hypocrite!': The Defensive Strategy. "They pretend they're offended by <obviously bad thing> but whatabout when they did <vaguely similar obviously bad thing>?" It offers rationalizations to deflect nagging questions of morality or decency. And, just obliterates context.
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2/ 'Hypocrite!': The Offensive Strategy. 404 - File not found. In evaluating out-group accusations of hypocrisy, it's reflexively easy to focus on and expand the context, diluting the inconsistency to a point of triviality.
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3/ 'Hypocrite!': In 2018.
A gift to the emerging autocracy.
The @GOP and their base give away the game with the rhetorical emphasis on (but disuse of) "facts & logic." Like everyone else they're rationalizers, not rational. But, they've stumbled upon the weaponizable asymmetry.
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