I believe more people need to just block the ML instances. The propaganda machine is just churning out. I kept it before because there was some good content and different povs but now it’s just flimsy arguments about the left and right being the same so don’t vote
You can fuck off any time you like.
Looking at jankforlife’s posts: sharing Russia Today links
By the way, ‘whataboutism’ (originating as ‘whataboutery’) was literally invented by a British loyalist columnist Sean O’Conaill in the 70s who was whining about Irish Republicans’ accurate criticism of British atrocities in Northern Ireland.
The so-called leftists in the west do not even realize they have are using imperialist propaganda whenever they mention whataboutism.
TIL
The so-called leftists in the west do not even realize they have are using imperialist propaganda whenever they mention whataboutism.
leftism in the west seems to be at such a degraded state that its practitioners vary wildly in its application and i suspect that it speaks to the dearth of sounding boards for it.
not for the lack of peope trying – the epstein class uses its authority to discredit, kill, persecute leftists on their side of the planet and the brainworms they created via things like COINTELPRO are generational enough too make an overwhelming majority of westernerss sit and do nothing about iit at best and cheer it on at worst.
Whataboutism started as a way to point out hypocrisy used to evade responsibility by pointing out some other unrelated moral wrong. It is now used by libs to evade responsibility by denying a related moral wrong. Impressive sleight of hand
