How it works

Hypocritter doesn't argue about who is right. It checks whether people follow the rules they set for everyone else.

The quick take

Every point opens as two lines: what they said, then what they did. That is the whole claim. One tap opens the full text, what they demanded for others, and the same rule with the roles reversed. A line marked paraphrased is our summary of a position; quotation marks appear only around their exact words.

Three columns

1. 01 · What They Said
   The rules and standards they told everyone else to follow.
2. 02 · What They Did
   What actually happened when they were in the spotlight.
3. 03 · Same Rules for Everyone?
   Would they accept the same treatment when the roles are reversed?

Each row of a case sets one standard beside one piece of conduct. The third column asks what the person demanded for others in that situation, and what the same demand would mean with the roles reversed.

Grades

• Direct. The conduct matches the standard almost exactly.
• Strong. The same kind of conduct, with some differences.
• Partial. A real but looser parallel.

Trash cans

Every case gets a score from 1 to 10 overturned trash cans. The bigger the impact, the bigger the mess it makes. The same scale applies no matter which side the case is about.

Both sides

We hold the left and the right to the same rules, on the same scale. Pieces about a policy, not a side, are judged the same way.

Sources and the swap test

Every factual claim links to a source, and paraphrases are marked as paraphrases. Each case ends with a swap test: the conduct described with the names changed. If your reaction changes with the names, the disagreement is about the names.

The blind verdict

Some cases can be read with the names removed first. You score the conduct, then find out who it was. If your number moves once you know, you have learned something no article could tell you.

What happens after

A case is not finished when it is published. We update it when the people in it answer, double down, or clean it up, and when someone fixes it we say so as loudly as we called it out.

Who writes this

The opinion in every case is a person's. Research and drafting are assisted by AI, and every piece is reviewed and approved by a human editor before it is published.

When we get it wrong

We fix it and say so on the case itself. Email [email protected] with the claim and a source.