Hypocrisy is standing for one thing and doing another. Standing against the policies of the government you’re governed by is not hypocritical, by any measure whatsoever. Americans are not individually responsible for our governments actions any more than a German is responsible for the historical actions of theirs.

You have to think more and harder . That is the definition of hypocrisy. Showing people they do care about people and actually not giving a damn to well being of people.

> Americans are not individually responsible for our governments actions any more than a German is responsible for the historical actions of theirs.

It is funny when it comes to Iran, your politicians use the exact opposite logic.

I am not “my politicians”. Me and “my politicians” are individual human beings with different opinions. Disagreeing with my nations politics does not make me a hypocrite.

So with that explanation, I would say you have not read the comment I was responding to.

>Agree with the rest, but sanctions don't hurt the people who actually came up with this shitty idea. It ends up hurting the normal guy on the road, who will probably not endorse the idea in the first place.

When you say this in the response of sanctioning the USA, but don't say that when sanctioning other countries, that does only one meaning. You don't care about ordinary people from other countries (although you claim you do). Which makes you a hypocrite.

Except I never mentioned sanctioning other nations. If you conflate my opinions with those of other individuals - of course you think I’m a hypocrite. Groups do not have idea or opinions - groups are just piles of individuals.