Silver Tongue

pressurepride:

sirfrogsworth:

“But Obama did a bad thing too!”

Agreed. 

Now that I’ve acknowledged that, can we please stop the bad thing currently happening that doesn’t require a time machine to fix?

that’s an old soviet propaganda technique called whataboutism. it implies that all actions share a moral equivalency and since no one is perfect, standards are unnecessary

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