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Russia/Ukraine has similar gotcha screening question: "Crimea belongs to ... whom?" pro-Russians will try to weasel and twist themselves into pretzel justifyin
by slt2021 2y ago
Russia/Ukraine has similar gotcha screening question: "Crimea belongs to ... whom?"
pro-Russians will try to weasel and twist themselves into pretzel justifying Crimea annexation. Pro-Ukraine will have the opposite answer.
similar thing in USA: try to force any US public figure to condemn genocide in Gaza or apartheid in Palestine... and you will be deported, canceled, and debunked on the spot.
or try to ask any US public figure to condemn any of the US wars, or the way US public was led into supporting them and do the math on who picked up the tab of the war...
- pmezard 2y agoOr you can keep the first question or a variant like "Did Russia invade Ukraine?" in the the USA too.
- keybored 2y agoYou’re comparing politicans to regular people. Politicans have a vested interest in saying very specific things (in public) in order to maintain their myriad of alliances. Regular people that you accost in the street can say whatever they like, lie if it is convenient, if it furthers their own goals. Yes, Eastern Europeans have the ability to lie and aren’t bots programmed by Zelensky/Putin.[1] [1] Not that they will necessarily believe or be on the same page as what the government says but we can stop here.