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> make his offenses look quaint. How do we know his offenses if the information is still mostly classified? Perhaps they do not make others seem quaint in com
by grandalf 11y ago
> make his offenses look quaint.
How do we know his offenses if the information is still mostly classified? Perhaps they do not make others seem quaint in comparison.
- bsder 11y agoWell, Nixon doesn't appear to have been running a multi-decade pedophile sex ring, for example. Admittedly, that's a pretty low bar.
- grandalf 11y agoIt is absurd to take extreme practices done by others and use them as evidence of our own character.
- happyscrappy 11y agoMaybe he poisoned people with Polonium and stole billions but it seems unlikely.
- jonknee 11y agoThat's actually pretty tame compared to a lot of world leaders...
- grandalf 11y agoIt is absurd to take extreme practices done by others and use them as evidence of our own character. Much of the pro-US propaganda points out bad things about other nations or their leaders (note the recent "Why are China's cities flooding?" headline in the Economist) as a way of making Americans not question their own way of life.
- jonknee 11y agoObviously, but the OP was doing exactly this with: > "Perhaps they do not make others seem quaint in comparison." All I was saying is that there's a pretty high bar for awful behavior by world leaders.