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0 pointsshostack11d ago0 comments

This is literal whataboutism. Refute the comment if you have a valid point to make.

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teyopi11d ago· 1 in thread

Erm, no? it is pointing out hypocrisy?

If you are against the thing China does, when US does the thing also be against it.

US has always done what China does, now trump is doing it vocally.

So it is easier to point out the hypocrisy in it.

Before there was plausible deniability.

Thank you for your attention to this matter

abc425d ago

Well, it's more complicated than that.

Let's imagine that China and USA do some equally bad thing against my privacy, let's say intercept and store all the traffic between myself and my AI provider. I am inclined to excuse it from USA and not from China because it's much more likely that China would use it to undermine the security of my home country. USA on the other hand, is literally a military ally of my home country.

I don't naively think that USA is a 100% benign country because of the alliance and that my interests are aligned with them. Trump especially has made that part worse. They're just more aligned with me than China.

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