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A warm celebration of America's flag.
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You just equated people talking about how it's not bad if a piece of cloth is burned, to White Supremacists.
We're all JUST AS BAD!
People's masks slipping in this thread. That ingrained patriotism is really getting the better of people.
this thread would be like half as long if folks could just like come to terms with their nationalistic brainwashing or at least question what they were taught in US History class
Worry not, there are plenty of poop threads on ERA to fill that "made with substantive thought" void.
No, since this thread here is about the USA and not the Republic of China. Totally different on all matters and therefore Whataboutism.
The one thing that I always find very weird about US communists is that their entire project hinges on the US military being willing to overthrow the US government (as US-based militias stand no chance against the US military in combat), but they also constantly are against the institutions that are generally aligned with the US military as well as the US military itself.
It just comes off as so bad tactically to make the whole thing seem like a LARP.
It just comes off as so bad tactically to make the whole thing seem like a LARP.
Failing to properly test for consistency does not make something whataboutism.
You didn't said it literally, but since you realized that you assumed choices while ignoring their circumstances, I'm sure you can understand my point that it comes across as a xenophobic "go back" post.
I'd say this in any context, but saying things specially like that in the era we're living in, with all we've seen, and during your patriotic day, it's not a very sensible thing to say. To put it ligthly.
Yeah cuz the holiday predates China's government by like a millenium
I think Pepe has way more of a 4chan association nowadays tbh
oh shit not the bbq
Especially when there's a good chance we're the reason some of those countries are poor and war-torn.
Is an epidemic of gun violence a good reason to protest the symbol of the flag or is that still just "edginess", I wonder...
Guess I'll take that as a "no"
But I already gave 2 solid reasons why that idea was spectacularly flawed. So I guess that test failed. Oops.
As opposed to remaining in their home country which has become an extremely dangerous place to live due to the actions of the U.S., as has been explained in the very post to which you wrote this ingenious reply.
For the record I'm just as happy this thread got a misapplication of whatboutism as other people seemed to be happy I mentioned free university in a throwaway comment.
Those are same folks who would sing along to the national anthem in a walmart too
He got hijacked for a while but I think after Matt Furie really came out in force for him, he got sort of accepted back into the mainstream. At least as far as I've noticed!
"you could be living in Iran right now"
ah yes the Iran the U.S. had a CIA backed coup in, in the 50s that ultimately lead to the Islamic revolution.
Is an epidemic of gun violence a good reason to protest the symbol of the flag or is that still just "edginess", I wonder...
Guess I'll take that as a "no"
But I already gave 2 solid reasons why that idea was spectacularly flawed. So I guess that test failed. Oops.
I do not think most of the people in Communist-Era are for the vast gun confiscation needed to prevent mass shootings?
To be able to make a proper comparison the circumstances need to be the same.
And again, answering a question basically with "but waht about them", which has nothing to do with the current topic is the very definition of Whataboutism.
If you had free education, maybe you knew this but then again, you're against that idea
Your example wasn't real though. You just wanted July 4th to not be white supremacist-y so you made something up, and it didn't work. Now you're flailing; trying to cling to any tiny W you can get out of this conversation.
Wrong thread?
i don't even get it. y'all 'muricans rose up against the british yet y'all kept the imperial system?
that's next on the list after we stop the whole systemic racism & sexism thing
Idk my explaining how the US is a white colonizer state and someone going "what about China" is pretty textbook whataboutism.
The olympics is coming up soon, you may wanna look into representing the US in mental gymnastics.
This is it. The best post in the whole thread.
Funnily enough we'll have a head start on the latter if we finish the former.
I'm only ever immediately suspicious of the smug version, but I have had a less-terminally online person be put off by it initially recently. I feel like Wojak has just kept evolving with the gendered, doomer, goth, etc variants that are all the rage these days.
Us Americans take the phrase "show feet" very seriously
sugar, i don't think any amount of edits could have salvaged your post
Whataboutism:
"Hey! America has commited genocide, pandered to racism and inequality, and has kept its citizens under an iron boot."
"Yeah but China does that too and I don't hear you complaining about it!"
This thread:
*Burning the flag pics*
"Umm okay".
"It's cause America colonized places in the past!"
"Yeah but the holiday isn't about that...? Countries can have horrific histories but celebrate postive aspects about itself. For example, China-"
"-WHATaBOUTism"
... What?
Burning the flag is fine, never argued against it. Actually, I would argue that it's encouraged as a form of recognized protest.
Level of discourse could use some work.
You're just posting word salad now. Might be time for a nap?
"America is a white colonizer state"
China who is famously a white colonizer state.
... Because the OP is a communist?
Biden: "How would it be if the United States was viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries..."
This sounds like something Trump would say, so you know it's a bold faced lie.
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