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Your response was the very archetype of whataboutism...

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Posted: 04/30/2019 at 5:54PM

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Would there be any discussion of Venezuela if not for the oil? ** -- Hooooooooooooooo 04/30/2019 4:03PM

Monroe Doctrine? Or is Russia not in Europe now.... ** -- hoothat 04/30/2019 4:56PM

Didn’t realize Russia was a European colonial power...my bad! Also, didn’t -- Hooooooooooooooo 04/30/2019 8:11PM

The Monroe Doctrine was cited by the Kennedy administration in the Cuban -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 8:25PM

I guess you also don't agree wih Seattle. Odd how I catch your ire. -- hoothat 04/30/2019 8:19PM

Well actually I do agree with both of you that a Russian military base in -- Hooooooooooooooo 04/30/2019 8:34PM

Finally I do agree with you. Russian military base in Venezuela is really -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 5:17PM

Rick Scott is ready to spill American blood there. ** -- hooshouse 04/30/2019 4:28PM

As a new GOP senator who was late to the Iraq party, Scott -- Shenhoo 04/30/2019 4:54PM

I remember your uproar when we bombed Libya. ** -- hoothat 04/30/2019 4:43PM

And then issued a stand-down order for Benghazi. Right? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 4:51PM

What does that have to do with bombing Libya? ** -- hoothat 04/30/2019 4:55PM

Sorry. I just assumed you'd follow your whattabouism with a dose of -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 5:02PM

That wasn't whataboutism... -- hoothat 04/30/2019 5:13PM

Your response was the very archetype of whataboutism... ** -- VisorBoy Hokie 04/30/2019 5:54PM

Cool story. Feel free to go in depth. ** -- hoothat 04/30/2019 6:08PM

You deflected a poster's opinion about Event A by referring... -- VisorBoy Hokie 04/30/2019 6:12PM

Oh, so in this new whataboutism world, hypocrisy no longer exists. Got it. -- hoothat 04/30/2019 6:14PM

Whether it's hypocritical is immaterial... -- VisorBoy Hokie 04/30/2019 6:22PM

LOL. You may be a hypocrite, but I am not. -- hoothat 04/30/2019 6:32PM

You have a funny way of showing it... -- VisorBoy Hokie 04/30/2019 9:04PM

Uhh, I clicked on two of those links. Neither hypocritical. They are true -- hoothat 04/30/2019 9:40PM

You should be ashamed of hurling insults** -- VisorBoy Hokie 05/01/2019 3:02PM

The topic is Venezuela, not Libya. No relation whatsoever. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 5:18PM

I thoight the discussion was intervention... ** -- hoothat 04/30/2019 5:24PM

Did you now? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 5:25PM

Seems to be the focus. ** -- hoothat 04/30/2019 6:09PM

I expect him to volunteer; a modern version of the Rough Riders. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 4:32PM

I'm thinking a civil war in our hemisphere and their connection to Cuba -- Hoodafan 04/30/2019 4:28PM

Shit man I’d wager that the vast majority of Americans know absolutely -- Hooooooooooooooo 04/30/2019 8:23PM

While that is mostly right, I simply don't get the anti-Cuban fetish. What -- Shenhoo 04/30/2019 5:08PM

I have no such fetish myself, but from what I understood apparently Maduro -- Hoodafan 04/30/2019 5:55PM

Big money potential for DeVos's brother. -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 4:21PM

Although he may have another distraction per the Daily Beast. -- Shenhoo 04/30/2019 4:58PM

He didn’t “mislead” anyone, he straight up lied under oath. ** -- southdenverhoo 04/30/2019 7:17PM

Lol Adam Schiff... ** -- hoothat 04/30/2019 6:11PM

Yeah I saw that. Somebody need to rein in that bastard Prince. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 5:04PM

Part of the discussion is a result of Venezuela once being a Socialist -- Tuckahokie 04/30/2019 4:12PM

No. That's how it works. All of us should be able to agree on that. -- Hokieesith 04/30/2019 4:10PM

Sadly accurate ** -- VisorBoy Hokie 04/30/2019 4:51PM

What about the people who live where we're fighting over resources? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 4:42PM

What about them? ** -- Hokieesith 04/30/2019 4:46PM

They're the ones getting fucked over. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/30/2019 4:50PM

Yeah, I know that. I thought that was apparent. ** -- Hokieesith 04/30/2019 4:55PM

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