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Who disputed it? The only ones who "dispute" the autocratic nature of power in Russia are government backed trolls. That's not considered dispute by any means.
by shmerl 8y ago
Who disputed it? The only ones who "dispute" the autocratic nature of power in Russia are government backed trolls. That's not considered dispute by any means.
And trying to be neutral or "soft" about these kind of things ends up in whitewashing it. It sounds strong, because the problem is serious.
- dang 8y agoThe commenter who replied to you disputed it. Jumping to "government backed trolls" is exactly the mentality I was just trying to describe. That's just a form of assuming your conclusion, you have no evidence for saying it, and in fact it explicitly breaks the site guidelines to insinuate it. (Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.) The range of legit opinion is much wider than most people think. That has become very obvious to us, looking at the data left by millions of readers, voters, and commenters.
- shmerl 8y ago> you have no evidence for saying it I have more than enough experience to know who commonly "disputes" this, and it's not anyone good. You can use this kind of "dispute" as a very clear indicator about those who do it. Opinions are applied to something subjective and they indeed can the the subject of dispute. Facts can't be replaced by them and disputing facts is rather strange to begin with.