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For example, Russia isn't the one who invaded or attacked 125 countries in the last 30 years.

Ah, whataboutism, then. My mistake, I'll ask somebody else.



Please keep tedious tropes and canned arguments like "whataboutism" [1] out of HN comments. They're reflexive reactions [2] that aren't compatible with the curious conversation we want here.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whataboutism%20by:dang&dateRan...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...


Honestly, what other response is appropriate for the post I replied to? (A rhetorical question to which I already know the answer: "No response at all.")

Is that person engaging in good faith, in your opinion? A giant wall of text with a Kolmogorov complexity of maybe six or seven words, explaining how whatever happens is all everyone's fault but Russia's and/or China's, and that none of us have the moral authority necessary to question the outcome?


Ban me if you want but this is the dumbest comment reply I have ever seen. Chatbots regularly display more intelligence than this. I feel bad for anybody who has to interact with you in real life.


Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html




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