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> doing something you don't like I think people mostly aren't surprised that a country is taking action against an enemy, that's expected in general. What mig
by buran77 2y ago
> doing something you don't like
I think people mostly aren't surprised that a country is taking action against an enemy, that's expected in general. What might raise an eyebrow here and there is when they're doing it via the exact same means they classified as anti-democratic, anti-free market, anti-freedom, etc. when their enemies were doing it. It's the hypocrisy of the explanation and the realization once you try to look beyond the veneer of righteousness that those giving the explanation think their own people must be at peak ignorance.
- stackskipton 2y agoSure, we make a ton of freedom noises. However, we also run into paradox of tolerance problem where entities exploit those freedom noises against us. So yea, we have to break those rules against entities who would use them against us.
- buran77 2y ago> Sure, we make a ton of freedom noises. As I said, the hypocrisy of the speech and perhaps the expectation that people will always swallow it (which sets a low bar for the opinion about those people) are what stands out, not that a country takes actions against an enemy. Atomic bombs were dropped in the name of peace, a minor phone app being banned can hardly be called "aggression".
- redserk 2y agoCan you name a single country that succeeded by following pedantic absolutism? I’ll wait.
- ozgrakkurt 2y agoFreedom or any ethical, moral thing is meaningless to any state or corporation. It is a tool to be used to get what they want. US or EU isn’t strong and rich now because they gave everyone freedom or treated everyone ethically, it is the opposite