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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think my point is kinda that the whataboutism poster I blocked might have needed a reminder that the idea that "no one cared until it was Trump" is just another pro-Trump attempt to rewrite history, and untrue on the face of it, because it has never been difficult in the age of MS dominance to find knowledgeable people expressing these concerns.

However, and going back to my original comment and my underlying frustration that I've entertained this whataboutism for this long, like all examples of whataboutism it's nothing but a waste of time where we all circlejerk about how of course we all cared about it even before Trump while simultaneously failing to call out the original statement of "no one cared until Trump" as the obvious bullshit that it is, on top of being whataboutism.

So now I get to walk away smugly congratulating myself for how thoroughly I've exposed the whataboutism and the bullshit, meanwhile all the time you and I spent thinking about and typing this could have been spent thinking up creative methods of civil disobedience, or otherwise doing something more valuable than impotently demonstrating what an inane point was made in the first place.

So next time, I'm just stopping at Goodbye, and the downvoters can fuck themselves.

Edit - typo or two corrected.