Whataboutism isn't productive.

Post #438,765 by Another Scott 3/23/21 12:20:11 PM 3/23/21 12:20:11 PM Reply	Whataboutism isn't productive.
Post #438,767 by mmoffitt 3/23/21 1:36:40 PM 3/23/21 1:38:33 PM Reply	Also, talk about your "dodges". That was Charger 500 R/T. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again. Edited by mmoffitt March 23, 2021, 01:38:33 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #438,770 by Another Scott 3/24/21 5:34:20 PM 3/24/21 5:34:20 PM Reply	Google Lens tells me... that it's a 1959 Dodge Sierra station wagon. But it also looks like the 1959 range had about eleventy-seven different names (Custom Royal, Custom Royal Lancer, etc.). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Cheers, Scott.
Post #438,774 by pwhysall 3/25/21 3:01:32 AM 3/25/21 3:01:32 AM Reply	403 Forbidden
Post #438,775 by Another Scott 3/25/21 8:40:26 AM 3/25/21 8:40:26 AM Reply	Sorry, I think it's the "no https images here" thing. (Same reason, as I understand it, that most avatars aren't showing up any more.) :-( Maybe this will work. HTH! Cheers, Scott.
Post #438,776 by drook 3/25/21 8:51:35 AM 3/25/21 8:51:35 AM Reply	That worked Christ that's an ugly car. -- Drew
Post #438,777 by mmoffitt 3/25/21 10:05:09 AM 3/25/21 10:05:31 AM Reply	Sorry. I meant your Dodge was a 500 R/T. It's a popular thing to condemn Communism with a misleading (at best) claim about how "every country that tried it turned into a dictatorship while committing uncountable atrocities." I don't think the atrocities committed by Capitalists are any less evil (particularly in the US) and it is hard to listen to that sort of statement from anyone who lives in the luxury of the evils perpetrated by Capitalism criticize Communism for the very same types of things that Capitalists did. I'll stick with the US. I think it is beyond dispute that the success of Capitalism in this country is built on a foundation of slavery, genocide and outright terror that has not been equaled. For example, many nations have developed nuclear weapons but only one has demonstrated the willingness to use them against the elderly, men, women and children and that nation did so twice and threatened to do it a third time. How's that work with the "morally superior" argument Capitalists often astonishingly try to make? Perhaps we could try to find some of the handfuls of indigenous who survived the Capitalists attempt to wipe them out and ask them if they see any parallels with what Stalin did or even Capitalist Germany in the late 30's and early 40's. You'll forgive me if I cannot take seriously complaints about how evil Communist doctrine has been deployed from a Capitalist. Without the child labor, slavery, maltreatment of the masses and theft from other nations, no Capitalist nation could exist. It's unwise in the extreme for a Capitalist to start talking about crimes against humanity committed by nominally Communist nations. A Capitalist doing that is engaged in the most hypocritical whataboutism. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again. Edited by mmoffitt March 25, 2021, 10:05:31 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #438,778 by Another Scott 3/25/21 10:53:12 AM 3/25/21 10:53:12 AM Reply	The only thing I mentioned was people dying trying to flee. HTH.
Post #438,779 by drook 3/25/21 11:05:56 AM 3/25/21 11:05:56 AM Reply	Some of those things are orthogonal When you say capitalism has only worked because of the exploitation of minorities, that's a reasonable argument. The labor of the subjugated is a direct input to the capitalist system. But when you tie that to military strategy and the use of nukes, I don't see how that was inherent to capitalism. We used them first because we made them work first, and it happened while we were engaged in a huge bloody war. I'm not saying that makes it right or wrong, just that the unique circumstances weren't about the economic system. If anything, given the number of German refugee scientists on the Manhattan project, it would make more sense to attribute development of nukes to fascism. -- Drew

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