geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to Progressive Politics@lemmy.world · 10 months agoBernie Sanders gets fact checkedlemmy.mlimagemessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up1497arrow-down1103
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minus-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down24·10 months agoPeak what-about-ism
minus-squareGold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·10 months agoits whataboutism to point out a flaw in ones argument?
minus-squareRickC137@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down6·10 months agoWhataboutism is: “You said x but what about y?” Which doesn’t make x any less valid or problematic.
minus-squareanarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoImplying that the US chooses foreign support on the basis of democratic principles is misleading at-best It’s like me telling my doctor that I have a glass of wine a day, even though I also have a bottle of whiskey a day.
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down38·10 months agoPeak virtue signalling.
minus-squareformulaBonk@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·10 months agoEven if you disagree with what that guy wrote it’s not in any way virtue signaling. Like brother what?
Peak what-about-ism
its whataboutism to point out a flaw in ones argument?
Whataboutism is: “You said x but what about y?” Which doesn’t make x any less valid or problematic.
Implying that the US chooses foreign support on the basis of democratic principles is misleading at-best
It’s like me telling my doctor that I have a glass of wine a day, even though I also have a bottle of whiskey a day.
Peak virtue signalling.
Even if you disagree with what that guy wrote it’s not in any way virtue signaling. Like brother what?