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2008 Hillary Clinton Says As President She Would Attack Iran At any state of Building nuclear weapons (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 day ago by mrdown@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Whataboutism is hypocrites like you're favorite word. There's no whataboutism about holding all politicians the same when they use the same rhetoric. When Hillary claimed Iran was seeking a nuke without proof, she was wrong; when Trump says the same thing, he is wrong.

If your initial post and comments were all about We need AOC, and/or All AIPAC candidates need to be replaced, you’d have support instead.

So you want me to only keeps about the good democrats? You are proving again that you think like a cultist , you don't want people to criticize the warmonger on your side only about the warmonger on the other side. I am sorry but I will keep condemn bad people no matter what is their affiliation and praise them when they do something good.

[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Tl;dr: The Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans! See? Look how similar they are!

Whataboutism

It's not a favorite word. It's an accurate one.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago

An accurate word for what you're doing is strawmanning

[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I am sorry but I will keep condemn bad people no matter what is their affiliation

Tl;dr: I will do what I can to discourage democrats from voting.

and praise them when they do something good.

No, you'll increase the volume and quantity of Democrats Bad/Just as Bad/Whatabout Hilary rhetoric.

You will do so with passion. No one, and no thing will stop you.

Maximal engagement regarding who isn't in power, Minimal engagement about the current atrocities being committed by the current regime.

It's what you have been doing, and what you will continue to do.