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if I were him I would take the first flight to Moscow, can't trust the Australian government, they're a US vassal state, sabotaging their own economy and relati

if I were him I would take the first flight to Moscow, can't trust the Australian government, they're a US vassal state, sabotaging their own economy and relationship with China to please the US. Safer to go an enemy state of the US in this case. There's a reason Snowden's still alive while all those Boeing and other whistleblowers are either dead or jailed.

twoodfin 2y ago
If you’re going to air conspiracy theories on hn, much better to elaborate the evidence for them beyond “there’s a reason”!
- mistermann 2y ago
  Look at all of the psychologically conditioned[1] Westerners who do not follow your rule of thumb: http://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=russia&sort=byDate&type=comment http://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&que... Does this variation of the phenomenon bother you as well, and to the same degree? [1] I mean this in the technical sense, not merely as shit talk.
  - twoodfin 2y ago
    From my admittedly limited perspective, it doesn’t seem like you need conspiracy theories to rag on the actions and statements of the current Russian government.
    - mistermann 2y ago
      I agree...however, do you think most people (or, the HN members in the search results) are able to conceptualize reality (the portion related to this topic) in a manner that does not technically fall into that category (thus invoking hypocrisy/irony/hilarity)? Do you think they mostly & consistently have the ability (cold/natively, or even if explicitly prompted)?
      - twoodfin 2y ago
        I don’t know, but if they alluded to evidence that Russia had co-opted a US presidential candidate or something, yes, I’d also encourage them to present it.
        mistermann 2y ago
        "evidence" is one of the most misunderstood, weaponized, shape shifting, etc words in our language....and our language is shit, so that's saying something.

twoodfin 2y ago

If you’re going to air conspiracy theories on hn, much better to elaborate the evidence for them beyond “there’s a reason”!

mistermann 2y ago
Look at all of the psychologically conditioned[1] Westerners who do not follow your rule of thumb: http://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=russia&sort=byDate&type=comment http://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&que... Does this variation of the phenomenon bother you as well, and to the same degree? [1] I mean this in the technical sense, not merely as shit talk.
- twoodfin 2y ago
  From my admittedly limited perspective, it doesn’t seem like you need conspiracy theories to rag on the actions and statements of the current Russian government.
  - mistermann 2y ago
    I agree...however, do you think most people (or, the HN members in the search results) are able to conceptualize reality (the portion related to this topic) in a manner that does not technically fall into that category (thus invoking hypocrisy/irony/hilarity)? Do you think they mostly & consistently have the ability (cold/natively, or even if explicitly prompted)?
    - twoodfin 2y ago
      I don’t know, but if they alluded to evidence that Russia had co-opted a US presidential candidate or something, yes, I’d also encourage them to present it.
      - mistermann 2y ago
        "evidence" is one of the most misunderstood, weaponized, shape shifting, etc words in our language....and our language is shit, so that's saying something.