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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

they’re not a bloody fucking government themselves are they?

The morality of authoritarianism does not "magically" change depending on who does it; it's still the same outcome, only in a different scale. If one is bad, the other is also bad. And someone doing what they denounce as bad is hypocrisy.

And you could bring up a thousand more arbitrary restrictions like you already did twice, like, "it isn't hypocrisy because today is Friday lol". It still won't change shite dammit.

And, as I already showed, even if your insane troll logic was valid (it is not), it doesn't defend the bullshit/assumption/lie that OP was defending USA.

You're being a bloody muppet and odds are that you know it.

Talk about 2+2=7 alright…

What I said is not false, let alone evidently false.

And it’s not a strawman, it’s not in response to anyone.

Yeah, because that community and the post totally exist in a vacuum. They are totally not addressing what people often say, that China is authoritarian. Right??? /s

It’s at blurst [worst?] whataboutism.

Nope.

Whataboutism is a diversion tactic. It would be whataboutism if OOP used that argument to divert attention from China into USA; they are not doing it, the central theme of the community is USA.


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