acargitz

Your behaviour here is not indicative of good faith engagement, with all the presumptive assumptions you make about everyone else’s intentions, and all the ad-hominem attacks, including towards me. You’re breaking Rule 1. Reported and disengaging.

Go touch grass.

You’re talking to unafraid Westerners. They will criticize their own governments. It’s not complicated.

If we were a bunch of unafraid Russians and you said somethig about the west, we would add a complaint about Putin.

You’re misusing the concept. It’s only whataboutism if its purpose is to downplay something or deflect an attack, but the comment above does not downplay anything and the poster was not attacked. It’s not a “yes but”, it’s a “yes and”.

They use cash in Montana?

Duckduck let’s gooooo.

Folks there really is no reason to go all the way back to the Islamic Golden Age to disprove this fool. There are many many Arab scientists and writers alive and kicking at this moment right now.

Orphan crushing machine moment.

Just abolish the death penalty.

Yea but how will rich fucks profit?

It’s become a meme to ask Americans at what point they will use their supposed 2nd amendment rights to start shooting at magas. And it has become similarly a bit of a meme to laugh at the ignorant non-americans for suggesting it.

But let’s be real. When the magas are threatening to abolish your democracy, you yanks need to make a counter-threat of violence to keep it. It doesn’t even need to be “serious”. That drunk “we have guns too” lady is actually a fantastic start. But it needs to be followed up by more senior Democrats and I’m not talking about chuck schumer, just someone above “drunk candidate in Fayette county”. Someone needs to say that if the Republicans enact martial law there will be blood. Say it jokingly. Say it in wacky wink wink way. But fucking say it. Get your wackiest weirdo politician to actually put the gun on the table.

If you don’t, then at some point it becomes a matter whether you actually care about your democracy. Like, fuck, maybe you don’t.

Doesn’t this reach the bar for cruel and unusual punishment?

And yet when Palestinians express hatred for Israelis it’s categorized as antisemitism.