• TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    And whataboutisms do not help either case. They just muddy the water and derail the conversation. If you want to talk about Russia or China, the US fighting this awful war only helps other competing empires. Russia is more likely to carve further into Europe, China is more guaranteed to take Taiwan, and other countries will race towards nuclear deterrents even harder then they were. Many more people are dead and will die because of this path America has driven us into. It is horrific and America needs to be stopped to make everyone safer.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s not whataboutism, it’s condemning both and NOT letting the existence of other justify the actions of one.

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        4 hours ago

        That’s not the way it comes across. It was just as annoying when people did the “what about American imperialism!” when Russia first invaded Ukraine. Timing matters