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A comment on Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era. Parent comment

Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by d0mine on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:09PM (#18259146)
I don't get the logic: if you do it, you are a terrible person. If we do it, we are fighting for freedom or some such.

If you use the term "whataboutism", you are either ignorant or a shill.

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by PeterisP on Saturday October 20, 2018 @03:18AM (#18262182)
If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war UK, France or USA was a decent regime to its own people.

If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war USSR was a horrible regime against its own people.

There are all kinds of horrible things done by those regimes to their own people as well, but they aren't comparable in scale.

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by PhasmaFelis on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:10PM (#18260460)
It's terrible no matter who does it. You tried to claim that it was less terrible for the USSR to do it, because other countries did it too.
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by d0mine on Saturday October 20, 2018 @01:27AM (#18261906)
Worse than no justice is only selective justice: one set of rules for us vs. another set of rules for them
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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by PhasmaFelis on Saturday October 20, 2018 @07:38PM (#18266042)
True, but no justice is still pretty bad, and you're advocating for it vigorously.
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