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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Remind me, what did they do to indigenous people when they were trying to get uranium for the Manhattan project?

This nonsense is just western projection.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

That's literally whataboutism, I criticized people using the vocabulary of "whataboutism" and then you said "but whatabout people who are doing whataboutism!"

To be clear, I dont believe whataboutism is a fallacy, but you do, so why are you doing it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Want to add on that there is another distinction which I think is slightly more accurate. Personal property only denies use to others through the details of use by the owner, private property prevents others from using resources that the person using the property isn't directly using through threats of violence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yes, people who burn food during a famine should be rehabilitated, and prisons were the method (that doesn't work) that people thought was effective to that end at the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Historically socialists have been better at utilizing scarce resources. Look at the 50 percent economic growth per decade achieved by soviet centralized economic planning before calculators and machine learning were a thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry do you think that the point of animal farm is that the animals shouldn't have revolted in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (15 children)

People cry whataboutism when they dislike people throwing context that goes against their argument into a discussion.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Claiming Whataboutism is a logical fallacy first used by English colonizers, dont use it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't the person trying to get Manchin to vote alongside other democrats be the party whip, which is a member of the legislature?

Honestly this comes off as comically pathetic attempt at a gotcha. Like "technically..." but youre just wrong about the facts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Old plantations now serve as prisons for a reason, and black activists do directly compare forced prison labor to slavery... so...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

slavery was outlawed

You need to reread the thirteenth amendment and synthesize it with the US having the largest prison population total and by capita

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