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In threads about the Russian war if you mention that the US has done worse your comments are removed and people complain about "whataboutism". In this thread,
by bsian 1mo ago
In threads about the Russian war if you mention that the US has done worse your comments are removed and people complain about "whataboutism".
In this thread, on the other hand, people keep bringing up that the US has done worse but those comments are upvoted and there is no mention of "whataboutism" in the entire thread.
- TiredOfLife 1mo ago> US has done worse They have not.
- r053bud 1mo agoThey have.
- senderista 1mo agothe asymmetric deployment of "whataboutism!" is hypocrisy about hypocrisy
- etc-hosts 1mo agoThis is getting too big to ignore and is leaking into mainstream popular culture. In the most popular streaming show atm (new season of Reacher), a main plot point is CIA and State Department and Green Berets involvement in a village massacre in Indonesia in the 90s (in the land of the tv show), this is of course a reference to the CIA and State Department indirectly murdering 1 million Indonesians 1965-1966.
- henearkr 1mo agoWhich of Trump or Putin is worse is irrelevant. Trump's US is maybe on par with Putin's Russia, maybe better or maybe worse (which depends on which aspect is looked at). That cannot deter us from fighting against what is bad in both of them. This is NOT a competition nor a championship about which dictatorship can inflict the most pain and destruction to the world. Nobody is rooting for such a "winner". Criticize all the despicable actions of such stinky regimes, regardless of if they are in Putin's Russia, in Trump's US, or wherever else. We are NOT in a race to the bottom. We shall never forget our values, as Humans and as Earth-dwellers.
- inigyou 1mo agoThis is a thread about bad stuff the US did, so bad stuff the US did is not off-topic here.