• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    9 hours ago

    Mate, they’re not a bloody fucking government themselves are they? Talk about 2+2=7 alright…

    And it’s not a strawman, it’s not in response to anyone. It’s at blurst whataboutism.

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      8 hours ago

      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.


      In case someone complains about the wall of text: Brandolini’s Law.

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        8 hours ago

        It does change when it comes to voluntary spaces. Their instance is like a club, it can impose its own rules on itself it’s not hurting anyone. A state imposing rules affects everyone and it’s damn hard to move.

        You cannot begin to compare state oppression to Lemmy moderation.