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0 pointslm284696y ago0 comments

And the US are the good guys, never played a role in foreign countries political systems, never spied on anyone, never started wars, killed civilians in countless countries, founded terrorists organisations, &c. ?

It's very easy to tell the bad guys to stop being bad, while doing the same things and pretending it's right. You don't even have to go back to MKULTRA or vietnam, it's happening right now.

But be careful, the mean russians have whales with light harnesses and the chinese have backdoors in all our technology. It's even sillier than most WW1/2 propaganda.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Admin-Wants-500M-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war...

https://www.dw.com/en/trumps-golan-recognition-a-dangerous-p...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/11/03/dozens-us-...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isi...

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sgift6y ago

That the US does bad things does not invalidate the bad things China and Russia do. You sound like someone who gets a speeding ticket and answers "but everyone else is speeding too! Why do you punish me?!"

dsfyu404ed6y ago

It's actually a better excuse for traffic violations than for international politics. What the rules of the road specifically don't matter all that much so long as everyone is behaving predictably so doing what everyone else does is generally the best option even if it's not the letter of the law.

lm28469OP6y ago

I rarely see negative threads about the US on hackernews, but not a day goes by without the regular anti chinese/russian propaganda, especially concerning military and/or technology.

jerf6y ago

"I rarely see negative threads about the US on hackernews,"

You must not be looking, then.

0_gravitas6y ago

You are clearly not looking then

wDcBKgt66V8WDs6y ago

I see plenty... often times it's more corporate focused but frequently it's about how those corporations interact with the government/society in ways that implicate government/society as well.

hombre_fatal6y ago

Thanks for the chuckle, but shitting on the USA is one of our favorite passtimes on HN as Americans, so it kinda makes your "b-b-but what about the USA" here into a trite eye-roll.

It's like complaining HN never talks shit about Javascript in a submission that shits on PHP.

inflatableDodo6y ago

>That the US does bad things does not invalidate the bad things China and Russia do.

True, but whataboutism like that only carries any weight at all because the US has been the most warlike nation since WWII.

CharlesColeman6y ago

> True, but whataboutism like that only carries any weight at all because the US has been the most warlike nation since WWII.

Not really. Russia was de facto involved in many of those conflicts (e.g. supplying fighters and pilots to North Korea during the Korean war to fight the UN), and had many of its own (e.g. the invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, to name a few).

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PhasmaFelis6y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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