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minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days ago Capitalism sucks ass Yup. You can stop there. No need to tack on the whataboutism in a transparent attempt to argue in favor of it without being seen doing so.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·3 days agoI will not have my honor impugned by suggesting I support a system with pants.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoThen leave out the unnecessary “but other systems are bad too” whataboutism 🤷🏻
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoDo those systems have pants? Then I think they’re bad, too.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoAgain, that’s not the point. With the possible exception of fundamentalist anarcho-primitism, all systems tend to involve pants one way or the other. That DOESN’T preclude you from criticizing the system currently ruining the world more than any other without a whataboutism caveat.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days agoI’ve long ago come to terms with the fact that I will never be truly happy. But I’m not going to pretend I like pants.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoThat part’s fair, I guess 🤷🏻
Yup. You can stop there.
No need to tack on the whataboutism in a transparent attempt to argue in favor of it without being seen doing so.
I will not have my honor impugned by suggesting I support a system with pants.
Then leave out the unnecessary “but other systems are bad too” whataboutism 🤷🏻
Do those systems have pants? Then I think they’re bad, too.
Again, that’s not the point.
With the possible exception of fundamentalist anarcho-primitism, all systems tend to involve pants one way or the other.
That DOESN’T preclude you from criticizing the system currently ruining the world more than any other without a whataboutism caveat.
I’ve long ago come to terms with the fact that I will never be truly happy.
But I’m not going to pretend I like pants.
That part’s fair, I guess 🤷🏻