Equivalences

On identifying name equivalences in digital libraries by Dror G. ❋ David Bigwood (2004)

* Political fallout begins: Shooting not a time for false equivalences: Paul Krugman says we need to cut the phony "even-handedness" and admit that the right is almost entirely to blame for the toxicity of our discourse, and calls on GOP leaders to "take a stand against eliminationist rhetoric." ❋ Greg Sargent (2011)

The raw bluster of RedState meets the red-herrings and false equivalences of Mixner. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At yet the apologists for the right still manage to play the pathetic game of false equivalences with the left. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You can struggle to present another of your patented false equivalences, but the cries of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity and on and on and on are a world removed from anything you would have heard from Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher or Jon Stewart during the Bush years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Simply attempting to make moral equivalences won't excuse the violation of a single child's innocence, much less the well-documented, disgraceful actions of the Church when these violations become known. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Employers could not care less about 'points' and 'equivalences' and how many of them a young person has. ❋ Unknown (2012)

(Although with the examples I might be guilty of “false moral equivalences”). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Quite clear categories are romance, comedy and animation, for which i have exact equivalences. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No amount of setting up equivalences will change that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

DougInSanDiego: Presumably you are of sufficient intellect to know parallels doe not imply equivalences. ❋ Unknown (2010)

* Surge in outside spending is primarily activity on the right: Brian Beutler points to data showing that the massive rise in anonymous spending is being fueled by Republican donors who are opting for anonymity, rather than give through more traditional channels -- another data point demolishing the false equivalences between spending on right and left. ❋ Greg Sargent (2010)

And by all means, we should keep pointing out false equivalences between left and right as warranted. ❋ Greg Sargent (2011)

Employers could not care less about “points” and “equivalences”. ❋ Unknown (2012)

And in any case, you never had any reason to accuse ShelbyC of drawing inflammatory equivalences. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Employers could not care less about "points" and "equivalences" and how many of them a young person has. ❋ Unknown (2012)

* Michael Crowley gently skewers the false equivalences between anonymous spending on left and right. ❋ Greg Sargent (2010)

Presumably you are of sufficient intellect to know parallels doe not imply equivalences. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The director, Mike Pearson, says he has resisted direct contemporary equivalences (unlike, say, Peter Sellars, whose 1993 production likened Xerxes to Saddam Hussein). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Person 1: [Yo dude] that joke [straight up] killed, I'm [fucking dying] on the floor Person 2: Equivalent Person 1: The fuck does that mean? ❋ Mr. Vreys (2017)

[Redneck] [cousin]:"Do you know what equivalent [means], means same as." ❋ Maegz69 (2008)

Dude 1: Wow that song is [tight]! What are you listenin' to?? Dude 2: It's just this new [CD] I [bought]... Dude 1: OMG bro that's totally equivalent!! ❋ B Rab Jeezy (2009)

I have equivalated [the two] [piles] of [sugar]. ❋ Corrigenda (2006)

“Four glasses of [wine] [equivalate] to one whole [bottle]“ ❋ Themakerofbrilliantwords (2018)

"[Alchemy]: the science of understanding the structure of matter, [breaking it down], then reconstructing it as something else. It can even make gold from lead. But [alchemy] is a science so it must follow the natural laws: to create, something of equal value must be lost. This is the principal of equivalent exchange. But I learned that night that some things cannot be measured on a simple scale. My brother and I knew the laws of science, of equivalent exchange. The game required sacrifice, that something had to be taken from us, but we thought there was nothing more we could loose....We were wrong." ~[Edward Elric] (Fullmetal Alchemist) ❋ One/and/only/truth (2010)

"[In the early] days, we believed that to be the one [truth] in the world." -Alphonse [Elric] ❋ The_Heartbreak_Kid (2005)

Oh, would you look at that? He's the bullshit equivalent of [Leroy Brown]! What I need is the bullshit equivalent of a [flux capacitor] that will [take me BACK] to the place and time where that was last considered cool.... and REJECT IT on principal! ❋ Thygeekgoddess (2017)

[Comparing] [Hitler] to [Stalin] is a false equivalence. ❋ Fifth Finger Of Fate (2018)

Two seemingly [identical] [loads] do not have equal [recoil]. That is because of dram equivalent. ❋ PinkPanzer (2010)