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by rocqua 1713 days ago
In the sense that they were there to lynch the vice president for certifying a fair election result.

In that sense, the capitol attack was comparable to your whataboutist example.

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They weren't. You, I, and everyone else knows that hyperbolic, sometimes violent language is par for the course on both sides of the aisle. It's actually protected speech.

Whataboutism increasingly seems to be used as a thought-terminating buzzword by people who want double standards.

Fine