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You know the bots are out in full force, when the first comment on a China-critical post is what-about-posts about how bad EU is. You can see how threatened th

• linkregister 2y ago
  I tire of this internet trend of calling someone who disagrees with you a bot. I also agree with you that whataboutism posters come out in droves whenever there is negative-sentiment news about a non-Western aligned entity.
  • somenameforme 2y ago
    In general I'd agree that whataboutism is a logical fallacy, since it is basically a form of ad hominem, but it can also demonstrate that an attack itself is unjustified. For instance imagine if a farm was attacked for having laborers pick fruit for pennies per pound. If one doesn't know much about the industry that would indeed sound potentially abusive - especially with sufficiently leading framing, yet it's also the global standard. That doesn't mean it's right, but it also means that allegations against one specific entity for such are, at the minimum, misleading.
• sunshine-o 2y ago
  Actually my comment was not really negative (apart calling the Parliament a "Joke"). I would invite you to see for yourself because those EU institutions are quite open, you can actually lobby them yourself. Lobbying by the way is not reserved to corporations, you can and should lobby as an individual/private citizen. You can send emails to those people they will usually answer you.