undefined | Better HN

0 pointswruza1y ago0 comments

How would you comment on that? What would change if ggp wasn’t (allegedly) russian?

Your comment reads like “whatever, shut tf up” and nothing else. What you expect from that?

0 comments

I don’t actually care who is or isn’t Russian. That wasn’t my point. I’m saying it’s a Russian talking point and a silly one. You can’t justify everything bad you ever do by bringing up the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Trust me I’ve tried.

wruzaOP1y ago

I don’t think that that commenter tried to justify bad things, they only brought up a seemingly skewed perception of different nations by users of this forum. The fact that you see it as a sort of justification alone should be thought inducing. They simply added a contrast to what OP was already talking about in a delicate way, which was for reasons similar to those that generated this whole subthread.

keybored1y ago

Exactly. They interpreted the message backwards. Instead of:

1. This other empire/country invades countries (BAD). It would be weird for them to philosophize about “a philosophy for hard times”—that’s like a cold-blooded murderer trying to find a philosophy for the mental anguish that killing causes him, for those “hard times” (okay we’re two similes/metaphors down here maybe time to stop)

2. Likewise people shouldn’t be surprised and react with negativity[1] when someone points out that this empire/country does it (America)

Instead they seem to have interpreted in this backwards, roundabout way:

1. We’re talking about America and the military

2. The main topic is not even how the military kills people, btw (that’s just the backdrop)

3. Russia enters out of left-field: Hey America invades countries so therefore it’s okay that Russia did it!

Quite bizzare.

[1] When I replied that reply was downvoted and at the bottom of the thread

1 more reply

keybored1y ago

> I don’t actually care who is or isn’t Russian.

Have you stopped beating your wife? I don’t care if you’re a wifebeater, no judgement. I’m just randomly curious.

Saying that someone is both a Russian and pro-Invasion (by your faulty interpretation) has a well-deserved stigma.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 comments

dullcrisp1y ago

wruzaOP1y ago

keybored1y ago

Exactly. They interpreted the message backwards. Instead of:

2. Likewise people shouldn’t be surprised and react with negativity[1] when someone points out that this empire/country does it (America)

Instead they seem to have interpreted in this backwards, roundabout way:

1. We’re talking about America and the military

2. The main topic is not even how the military kills people, btw (that’s just the backdrop)

3. Russia enters out of left-field: Hey America invades countries so therefore it’s okay that Russia did it!

Quite bizzare.

[1] When I replied that reply was downvoted and at the bottom of the thread

1 more reply

keybored1y ago

> I don’t actually care who is or isn’t Russian.

Have you stopped beating your wife? I don’t care if you’re a wifebeater, no judgement. I’m just randomly curious.

Saying that someone is both a Russian and pro-Invasion (by your faulty interpretation) has a well-deserved stigma.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse