• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    mUH wHataBoUTiSm. I’m shocked this user is from .ml

    Shocked, I tell you.

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      12 minutes ago

      That’s not whataboutism at all. He’s pointing out what you people love to ignore, the U.S. empire, the perfect fusion of U.S. businesses and global military projection, that chugs along unhindered regardless of who is in power. I don’t think you understood his comment.

      Frankly, Putin is scum but the idea that he controls the Republican party is fucking ridiculous. Their brand of fascism has been continual for the better part of a century. The Red Scare, Nixon, the Reagan years, GHWB, GWB, all of it. Russia’s GDP is a fifteenth of the U.S.'s GDP. Trump’s net worth is like 1/2000 of Russia’s GDP as a whole. It’s a complete boogeyman for Democrats. The reality is far uglier - that both Democrats and Republicans, and their equivalents throughout much of the European sphere and any client state of the U.S., are all controlled. Putin couldn’t afford a ruler in the U.S. the same way domestic businesses can. If he were really trying to go against these institutions, he would have been killed already.

      Trace back all the Russia claims. Where did they come from? Was it an impartial third party analysis? A UN watchdog? Or was it an arm of the U.S. government?

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      3 hours ago

      How is this whataboutism? They only pointed out that the US has a long history of doing shitty things without being controlled by some foreign actor. It’s perfectly plausible that Trump is doing shitty things because he thinks he will personally gain something out of it, without anyone pulling his strings. He just doesn’t care if the rest of the country goes up in flames.

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      6 hours ago

      No he is dead on. The US has been shooting itself in the foot for decades in order to murder little brown kids.

      The only way your argument makes any sense is if Russia ordered Biden to commit genocide and throw the election. The DNC decided to run a geriatric against Trump. They are no smarter or better than the Republicans.

      • lennybird@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        More wHataBoUTiSm from another .ml account.

        Again, just shocked. Tu quoque fallacy at its finest.

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        3 hours ago

        I didn’t want to believe it, but .world and Reddit powermod user overlap must be real high. They all are like a hivemind of “making fun of tankie” aka the liberal version of “woke”