Oh, i liked this section

According to lexicographer Ben Zimmer,[13] the term originated in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. Zimmer cites a 1974 letter by history teacher Sean O'Conaill which was published in The Irish Times where he complained about "the Whatabouts", people who defended the IRA by pointing out supposed wrongdoings of their enemy:

I would not suggest such a thing were it not for the Whatabouts. These are the people who answer every condemnation of the Provisional I.R.A. with an argument to prove the greater immorality of the "enemy", and therefore the justice of the Provisionals' cause: "What about Bloody Sunday, internment, torture, force-feeding, army intimidation?". Every call to stop is answered in the same way: "What about the Treaty of Limerick; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921; Lenadoon?". Neither is the Church immune: "The Catholic Church has never supported the national cause. What about Papal sanction for the Norman invasion; condemnation of the Fenians by Moriarty; Parnell?"

— Sean O'Conaill, "Letter to Editor", The Irish Times, 30 Jan 1974

Good example of how claims of whataboutism are used to try to remove actual important context from a discussion.

"Both sides" is when you equivocate two things which are not equal, you're looking for "whataboutism" which is not an actual fallacy, claiming "you're doing whataboutism" was a PR tactic first used by British colonizers when Irish people brought up British violence in response to anti-IRA propaganda.

That is what I try to communicate to folks who are freaking out about Trump. You have to worry about the next guy, and the next guy, and the next guy. You can't just keep voting Democrat, you actually have to get organized if you want to stop fascism, because Trump isn't the font that fascism springs from, he is an inept conman who is riding the wave.

Or you'll get more communist when you have people to protect, like children or friends who start getting sick now that they're not young anymore

You haven't seriously engaged with Marx if you think the stuff he wrote isn't still relevant.

Not meant as a diss, but please actually engage with his body of work before making this criticism.

Did you like when Harris was a cop and she argued for keeping prisoners past their release date because they needed the prison labor?

Or what about when she enabled the abuse of trans prisoners?

Or what about when she led to the criminalization of black parents to address truancy problems?

ACAB

(Also if you think this is a pro-Trump post you are incorrect)

You don't get to be overtly bigoted toward trans people here, sorry! 😭

I can feel the harm reduction

A lot of radical abolitionists were communists

The lgbt liberation movement would wave the flag of the legitimate vietnamese government during the US invasion. Marsha Johnson, Leslie fienberg, communists.

This is absolutely a testosterone thing according to my transmasc friends.

Its literally in the article you linked

ITT leeches saying "actually consuming your blood is providing a vital service and takes a lot of work"

Or worse, theyre just aspiring to be leeches