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I don't get the logic: if you do it, you are a terrible person. If we do it, we are fighting for freedom or some such. If you use the term "whataboutism", you
by d0mine 8y ago
I don't get the logic: if you do it, you are a terrible person. If we do it, we are fighting for freedom or some such.
If you use the term "whataboutism", you are either ignorant or a shill.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoIt's terrible no matter who does it. You tried to claim that it was less terrible for the USSR to do it, because other countries did it too.
- d0mine 8y agoWorse than no justice is only selective justice: one set of rules for us vs. another set of rules for them
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoTrue, but no justice is still pretty bad, and you're advocating for it vigorously.
- PeterisP 8y agoIf we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war UK, France or USA was a decent regime to its own people. If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war USSR was a horrible regime against its own people. There are all kinds of horrible things done by those regimes to their own people as well, but they aren't comparable in scale.