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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

10 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Not at all, you're a smart enough fella to do away with whataboutery.

It’s very trendy, but wholly inappropriate and lazy to run up the “whataboutery” flag rather than accept that there will actually be occasions where whataboutery is actually the very best way of illustrating a point. 
 

In the comparison Johnson / Corbyn and/or Tory / Labour the single most compelling reason (probably the only one) for preferring the former over the latter absolutely is look what you could have had. 
 

In this example whataboutery absolutely is appropriate....

[trigger_andy]

Not at all, you're a smart enough fella to do away with whataboutery.

A broken record poster gets a broken record reply.

What do we do with this information though? What viable alternative is there? Genuine question here.
Voting left, right, left, right is clearly not the solution.

I guess we could just keep having the right wingers post up bad press about the left and the left wingers post up bad press about the right? It’s not going to accomplish anything other than build stronger walls in our own echo chamber.

And yeh, thinking about how much worse it could have been under the other mob is relevant. We’re clearly no where near outta this shitshow and sooner or later we’re gonna have another election. Since we don’t have hindsight to see how Labour would have played it we can only surmise and for me it puts a shudder up my spine. Can you honestly imagine Corbyne and Abbott making a single rational decision? I certainly can’t.

By having such an utterly weak and clueless opposition we’re giving the Tories carte blanche to do as they please knowing no one in their right mind would vote Labour.

See, I knew it was all really Labours fault really. 🤣

[Mark J]

16 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

It’s very trendy, but wholly inappropriate and lazy to run up the “whataboutery” flag rather than accept that there will actually be occasions where whataboutery is actually the very best way of illustrating a point. 
 

In the comparison Johnson / Corbyn and/or Tory / Labour the single most compelling reason (probably the only one) for preferring the former over the latter absolutely is look what you could have had. 
 

In this example whataboutery absolutely is appropriate....

[eggsarascal]

26 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

It’s very trendy, but wholly inappropriate and lazy to run up the “whataboutery” flag rather than accept that there will actually be occasions where whataboutery is actually the very best way of illustrating a point. 
 

In the comparison Johnson / Corbyn and/or Tory / Labour the single most compelling reason (probably the only one) for preferring the former over the latter absolutely is look what you could have had. 
 

In this example whataboutery absolutely is appropriate....

Look what we could have had! But you chose this shit shower then give it the whataboutery when they don't deliver. You know I wouldn't race to back Corbyn/Labour at the time, I'd neither race to back Johnson/Tories at the time.

 

Grow a pair and move away from the feckers.

[trigger_andy]

Just now, eggsarascal said:

 

Grow a pair and move away from the feckers.

How do we do that?

[eggsarascal]

2 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

How do we do that?

Quite easily, we vote for other parties to create a coalition like many other countries.

[trigger_andy]

Just now, eggsarascal said:

Quite easily, we vote for other parties to create a coalition like many other countries.

Oh right. 
 

No thanks. 

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, trigger_andy said:

Oh right. 
 

No thanks. 

So coalitions don't work just fine in other countries?

[Mark J]

11 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Look what we could have had! But you chose this shit shower then give it the whataboutery when they don't deliver. You know I wouldn't race to back Corbyn/Labour at the time, I'd neither race to back Johnson/Tories at the time.

 

Grow a pair and move away from the feckers.

[eggsarascal]

2 minutes ago, Mark J said:

"You could have had", close, but no cigar.