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I thought the numbers were historically lower than when the US went into Afghanistan/Iraq?
If so, also bad. Don't use whataboutism to deflect the fact IDF have been killing civilians constantly for months with only harsh words to deter them.
Aren’t you using whataboutism to deflect from Hamas and Palestinian civilians killing Israeli civilians? That seems kind of bad to but you only want to talk about one side
Not at all. Also bad!
But this comment thread started with IDF, and you attempted to change the subject... that is whataboutism.
So because a conversation starts with a topic, no other topic especially ones that contradict the topics narrative are allowed to be talked about. Seems like a load of shit if you ask me. Although I’m not allowed to talk about that cause no one asked right
It didn't contradict though. That's the thing about whataboutism, there is no contradiction, just another subject used to distract from the conversation. You literally replied to the OP of this thread with a distraction in an attempt to lesson the severity of one group compared to the other.
Whataboutism tacitly concedes the substantive point @lazynooblet
For that, @SuckMyWang can be thanked
What you’re saying is if anyone ever says to you “don’t throw rocks in glass houses” you’re going to go on a rant about whataboutism and how it’s the inferior view point