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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by tyri_kai_psomi on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:19PM (#21422079)
The false equivalence is strong with this one. In no way shape or form is it even remotely similar.
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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by molteanu on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:24PM (#21422140)
"Your boy cracked my son's head!"

"Your boy started it first. He broke mine's leg!"

"Yeah, a cracked head is not even remotely similar to a broken leg!"

Moral of the story: Broken legs are normal.

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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by bilbo0s on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:35PM (#21422843)
In the world of international relations, there really are no good guys.

But in a world where everyone is a bad guy, hypocrisy can be forgiven, since it keeps other bad guys in check despite its self-serving intent. Hypocrisy, whether European, Russian, American or Chinese, keeps the peace.

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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by markdown on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:23PM (#21423318)
> In the world of international relations, there really are no good guys.

Bhutan. Bhutan are the good guys.

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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by modulos on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:43PM (#21423497)
Bhutan engaged in ethnic cleansing and expelled over 100,000 Lhotshampa into Nepal.
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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by markdown on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:59PM (#21423640)
Googled it. Thanks for that. I was unaware.

For anyone else: https://thediplomat.com/2016/09/bhutans-dark-secret-the-lhot...

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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by LudwigNagasena on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:47PM (#21422389)
I challenge you to find a person in Eastern Europe or Middle East who wouldn’t crack up reading your comment. The realpolitik the US, China and Russia use are very similar.
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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by filoleg on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:21PM (#21422711)
As a person who spent majority of his life in Russia, your comment is the one that makes me crack up, not the parent one. And I can safely say that the same would hold true for most of the people from those countries who were lucky enough to be exposed to all sides of coverage on the issue.

If you think the way western media covers things is biased and dishonest (which it sometimes is, I admit), you have no idea how bad it is over there. It is a completely different degree of delusion that cannot even be called "bending the truth", it is straight up aggressive lying and fear-mongering that can barely even be rivaled by Alex Jones and his InfoWars.

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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by Aunche on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:56PM (#21423613)
Nobody is claiming that China and Russia have anything close to fair and balanced journalism. The above comment points out the irony that Americans are treating censorship on a Chinese social media app for teenagers as if it's the greatest threat to democracy, while their government bombs a country because they don't like the guy in charge.
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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by LudwigNagasena on Friday November 01, 2019 @05:22PM (#21423837)
Uhm, I lived in Russia for 20 years so I know how biased it is.
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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by funny_username on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:28PM (#21422186)
Victor Jara would've loved to speak with you.
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