i thought it wasnt a hexbear thread? maybe it wasnt a lemmy.ml thread but they should know better.

jesus christ we just had a huge struggle session about this.

this thread is on the front page of hexbear now, it will be a fun one

• Topic of this thread: USA introducing draconian anti-privacy laws
• Some other person1: Muh China
• You: China bad
• Some other person2: Other governments are bad too
• You: Whataboutism!

like first of all whataboutism is bullshit, second if you cared at all about “whataboutism” you’d realize that it had already happened and you were participating in it because this fucking thread is about the USA.

Honestly the thing that kills me most about people calling stuff whataboutism is it’s usually just someone contrasting the same or a similar situation in two countries (like you just did with China), which is absolutely not whataboutism. I hate even talking about this shit because it’s so goddamn stupid and juvenile. I wish that word could be erased.

this is a thread about the US though? Who whatabouts the whatabouter?

Yeah I’m actually amazed people are still using this term. Figures it’s about computers though lol, of course the antisocial nerds are stronger holdouts than car enthusiasts.

so you have no opinion and you decided to get mad at the person cussing out the racist guy?

you know we can see your posts right

and they both have the right to terminate for any or no reason

except there’s a bit of a power dynamic here isn’t there

That’ll teach him for messing with

JUSTICE!

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