Hym "You have got to be fucking shitting me, does NOT chewing with both sides of your mouth contribute to TMJ!? Well what in the fuck am I supposed to do about that now you son of a bitch!? God damnit. Oh and does my concern for the spontaneous increase in the severity of my symptoms insult you? Is it not worth your time? Fucking prick."
An approach to news reporting in which factual and empirical information is placed on equal ground to conspiracy theories and misinformation attempting to refute them. Often endorsed by legacy media organizations to farm clicks and comments with the often absurd nature of the both-sidesing taking place.
I'm done watching/listening to that news network. They keep both-sidesing their reporting on crimes against humanity and frankly I'm sick of it.
Being drunk and high simultaneously. Usually used to talk about the earlier phases of this phenomenon, unlike the later phases, usually called "the spins," which totally suck.
"Dude, I just drank 5 PBR's and then lit up a blunt. I'm getting a little bothsies."
A noun for when a person tries to assert that both sides of a debate are equally X (reprehensible, reasonable, etc.)
Also "bothsideism" possible
A possible synonym of "equivocation"
Use of term accelerated with the Trump administration's refusal to denounce white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, preferring to compare them to their protestors.
From NYTimes Opinion Newsletter, 8/17/17
"A forwarded email from President Trump’s personal lawyer defending the president’s bothsidesism on the violence in Charlottesville wrongly equates George Washington with Robert E. Lee, The Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum argues. “The analogy is central to the cult of Lee, to the mythos of the Lost Cause, and to the denial of what the Confederacy actually was,” he tweeted.