• @Passerby6497
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    101 day ago

    The notion that people are only wrong even if they are right.

    That’s literally the opposite of what it means though. The point of the phrase is that even people who are full of bad ideas occasionally come up with a good one.

    The idea that a bad person can’t change. Even if they do an empathetic action and care about someone they are still and will only ever be wrong.

    That requires them to actually change their ways, rather than having a good point mixed in with poisonous ones.

    So yeah, RFK is a broken clock.

    • @BangCrash
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      110 hours ago

      That’s literally the opposite of what it means though. The point of the phrase is that even people who are full of bad ideas occasionally come up with a good one.

      Ummm that’s literally exactly what I’m saying. You should re-read my comment cos you completely misunderstood my point

      • @Passerby6497
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        18 hours ago

        Your exact words were

        The notion that people are only wrong even if they are right. The idea that a bad person can’t change. Even if they do an empathetic action and care about someone they are still and will only ever be wrong.

        If that’s not what you meant, try to retype your comment so it says what you mean. Because what you said can’t really be parsed to mean

        The point of the phrase is that even people who are full of bad ideas occasionally come up with a good one.

    • @[email protected]
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      120 hours ago

      That requires them to actually change their ways, rather than having a good point mixed in with poisonous ones.

      Yeah, a better analogy is the effective difference between eating a shit sandwich and a sandwich filled with 99.9% shit and a speck of perfectly tasty honey-baked ham.