You know that cynical attitude libs use when talking about capitalism and bourgeois democracy? How they’ll say ‘it’s the worst system we have, except for all the others’?
Yeah, use that.
Liking things is for dweebs. Realists hate everything, but hate some things a little bit less.
Uighur re-education? Shrug and say ‘it beats the American approach of drone strikes to the point where children fear blue skies.
Criticism of tight control of the internet? Shrug and say ‘beats having antivaxx, plandemic, or white supremacist conspiracy theories spreading unchecked.
Criticism of single party rule? Beats having a perpetual war between do-nothing bureaucrats and theocratic white supremacists.
Authoritarian social control? At least they don’t have police killing people in the streets, or as high of a prison population as the USA.
Authoritarian Covid response? At least they didn’t kill 200,000 of their own people through incompetence.
What can you say? Bourgeois democracy’s beautiful in theory, but it just doesn’t work in practice.
I have a friend IRL who actually did say whataboutism to my face when talking about China. Shit's uncanny, almost like it is rehearsed. The conversation was in Spanish too, making it more jarring,though I guess there's no equivalent in Spanish yet.
You know that cynical attitude libs use when talking about capitalism and bourgeois democracy? How they’ll say ‘it’s the worst system we have, except for all the others’?
Yeah, use that.
Liking things is for dweebs. Realists hate everything, but hate some things a little bit less.
Uighur re-education? Shrug and say ‘it beats the American approach of drone strikes to the point where children fear blue skies.
Criticism of tight control of the internet? Shrug and say ‘beats having antivaxx, plandemic, or white supremacist conspiracy theories spreading unchecked.
Criticism of single party rule? Beats having a perpetual war between do-nothing bureaucrats and theocratic white supremacists.
Authoritarian social control? At least they don’t have police killing people in the streets, or as high of a prison population as the USA.
Authoritarian Covid response? At least they didn’t kill 200,000 of their own people through incompetence.
What can you say? Bourgeois democracy’s beautiful in theory, but it just doesn’t work in practice.
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That's bad advice. These people love flinging the term "whataboutism" like nothing else.
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I have a friend IRL who actually did say whataboutism to my face when talking about China. Shit's uncanny, almost like it is rehearsed. The conversation was in Spanish too, making it more jarring,though I guess there's no equivalent in Spanish yet.
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