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Everything short of the worst we've ever done is totally OK? What even is this argument?


No, the argument was that thousands of innocents have been killed just in the last year, with US weapons, for no reason.

While *I agree* to what was written in the post I replied to (I'm no supporter of Vucic or his buddy Putin), many other things would deserve words a thousand times heavier; and are instead not even condemned by many people here.

I only meant to point out that, in the only hope that even other things get condemned at least similarly.


This attempted deflection is as old as the hills. The Soviet Union spent a great deal of propaganda time talking about American slavery and Jim Crow, and it wasn’t because they cared about the issues. We call it “whatabout” now but it’s been the first defensive move when defending the indefensible for ages.




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