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Damn, first time I've seen this in the wild, the US alphabet agencies have been pushing this idea of "Malinformation" that is, correct information but told in the wrong way(i.e. making them look bad) since Trump's first term I believe. Guess it has taken to time to really sink into the liberal arsenal of thought terminating cliches.
Recuperation happening in real time. Fucking wild.
Oh, I meant more as "sometime around 2016-2020" not specifically Trump related. Though this is how the rehabilitation works, the liberals "oppose" the actions of the republicans in the moment, then they get normalised, then the liberals forget that the republicans were the ones who normalised it and act as if it is a perpetual facet of existence that has been since time immemorial.
Oh no I think I actually didn't make my point clear. It was wild to see it used in such a way when it has only relatively recently been catching on as a critique of bourgeois media and the rapidity with which it has been twisted into this tortured usage is fascinating. It is literally doing the thing too by only quoting that one snippet of the comment it is replying to.
If someone else has an account there they should definitely post that last point for me because it would annoy the fuck out of them but I can't be arsed to make another account.
Yeah, much like the OG, "whataboutism" it is used to pre-empt arguments that they don't have any rebuttal to, they used to just claim "cherry picking" but that doesn't work when your opponent is taking apart your argument and the last thing you want is to have people look at it more closely.
That is exactly what I meant. I'm old enough to remember some of the pre-soviet collapse stuff that lingered into the 90s and was very aware from a young age so it is super fascinating to watch it play out again. I was already kneeling for the national anthem in kindergarten when Kapernick was barely 2 years old.