▲ 390 ▼ Russian soldier admits proudly his comrades were killing POWs (euromaidanpress.com) submitted 2 years ago by SeaJ@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 117 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Egon@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 child) whataboutism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children) this type of lazy between the ears thinking is making this worse for everyone; please consider stopping. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago Shouting "whataboutism" every time someone brings up context isn't lazy? You can judge governments against perfection, you can judge them against the governments they replaced, or you can judge them against peer governments. The two realistic options involve comparisons, and those types of comparisons happen to be a key component of what passes for international law, too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Egon@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago Fascinating that you decided my comment was worthy of being called out for being lazy, yet the comment that does not engage with the discussion, instead discarding it as "whataboutism" gets no such scrutiny from you. It seems as though your issue isn't truly "lazy thinking" but instead wether or not I support your worldview. I will stop as soon as the gut-reaction to context isn't to regurgitate an old thought-terminating psyop. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SeaJ@lemm.ee [S] 2 points 2 years ago The only other tactic they have is ChatGPT generated word salad though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children) this type of lazy between the ears thinking is making this worse for everyone; please consider stopping. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago Shouting "whataboutism" every time someone brings up context isn't lazy? You can judge governments against perfection, you can judge them against the governments they replaced, or you can judge them against peer governments. The two realistic options involve comparisons, and those types of comparisons happen to be a key component of what passes for international law, too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Egon@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago Fascinating that you decided my comment was worthy of being called out for being lazy, yet the comment that does not engage with the discussion, instead discarding it as "whataboutism" gets no such scrutiny from you. It seems as though your issue isn't truly "lazy thinking" but instead wether or not I support your worldview. I will stop as soon as the gut-reaction to context isn't to regurgitate an old thought-terminating psyop. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SeaJ@lemm.ee [S] 2 points 2 years ago The only other tactic they have is ChatGPT generated word salad though. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago Shouting "whataboutism" every time someone brings up context isn't lazy? You can judge governments against perfection, you can judge them against the governments they replaced, or you can judge them against peer governments. The two realistic options involve comparisons, and those types of comparisons happen to be a key component of what passes for international law, too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Egon@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago Fascinating that you decided my comment was worthy of being called out for being lazy, yet the comment that does not engage with the discussion, instead discarding it as "whataboutism" gets no such scrutiny from you. It seems as though your issue isn't truly "lazy thinking" but instead wether or not I support your worldview. I will stop as soon as the gut-reaction to context isn't to regurgitate an old thought-terminating psyop. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee [S] 2 points 2 years ago The only other tactic they have is ChatGPT generated word salad though. permalink fedilink source parent