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What prevents you from posting "Exactly like North Korea!" whenever Belgium or UK or Canada or US are mentioned? I definitely don't think this would be a smart

• vkou 9y ago
  > What prevents you from posting "Exactly like North Korea!" whenever Belgium or UK or Canada or US are mentioned? Nothing, but much of the time, it's as irrelevant as soviet-era "And are you lynching blacks" responses. I don't think it's good for every thread that mentions a country by name to turn into this. If we're talking about incarceration, or political freedom, sure. If we're talking about detente between two countries at war, it's less relevant. If we're talking about roll-out of 10 GW of solar power capacity in China, mentioning its human rights record[1] is a complete non-sequitor... I feel that this case is closer to the latter then the former. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933883