PUTIN: These guys were on a holiday there

THE WORLD: gasps

UK: These guys were on a holiday there

THE WORLD: claps

Or as the saying goes "Rules for thee and not for me".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30488680

Ah, good that you re-posted it; your [0] is too old to respond to. Here, let me fix that for you:

   PUTIN: These guys were on a holiday there (but actually conducting a war of aggression).

   THE WORLD: Gasps in righteous indignation.

   UK: These guys were on a holiday there (but actually defending against a war of aggression).

   THE WORLD: Claps at the brave defenders.

Or as the saying goes, "Don't sell me a turd in a bun as a hot dog, I ain't buying it".

There, fixed that for you.

(OK, except for the "saying"; I just made that up. But, something along those lines. As is, it seems to fit both Putler's blatant immoral lies, the West's equally blatant but morally defensible ones, and your whataboutish equivalizing of the two.)

Absolutely right you are, sir.

We all have to thank the Russians to have shown the world in 2014 how to do it. And before that. And also to give us a great opportunity for Whataboutism.

Sigh, I probably still have those Bezmenov brochures from the early eighties lying around somewhere.

It is always funny how people can legitimize anything if it is used against the people they don't like.

"Bombing civilians" is unacceptable if they are from "Europe" like Ukraine.

"Bombing civilians" is fine if they are savages from Middle East, Africa or "not-Europe", like Russia.

Wow, an early deployment of the Racism card. Bold move, congratulation.

But then again, do you really think anybody is still reading this deep in the thread? They're already bored, no shiny tech, just endless babble.

But okay, your next move, Godwin’s law.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%E2%80%99s_law

Game over.

> still reading this deep in the thread

Yet here you are.

> your next move

But.. you invoked it yourself.

"Game over"