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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by archagon on Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:25PM (#30633398)
That's just dull contrarianism: suspecting "something fishy" just because everyone's opinions happen to line up. (As opposed to, I dunno, an obvious collective response to a nation doing something incontrovertibly wrong?)
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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by deltarholamda on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:40PM (#30634163)
>As opposed to, I dunno, an obvious collective response to a nation doing something incontrovertibly wrong?

Can you explain how this is incontrovertibly different than other foreign war entanglements from the past few decades?

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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by archagon on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:42PM (#30634181)
What was the last war that had such an overwhelming and unanimous international response?
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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by deltarholamda on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:51PM (#30634266)
That is question-begging of the first order, and also circular logic. "A unanimous response is not fishy, because it is incontrovertibly wrong; it is incontrovertibly wrong because the response is unanimous."

Very odd reply.

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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by archagon on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:55PM (#30634293)
Not really. It is hard to get disparate nations to agree on anything, unless you suspect there is a secret, central party coordinating the response. Consensus of this unusual sort gives credence to the claims.
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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by pie42000 on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:49PM (#30634250)
When was the last time a sovereign, democratic, western nation invaded?
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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by deltarholamda on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:58PM (#30634318)
You have to squint pretty hard to call Ukraine a western nation.

Is it the "western nation" part that makes this different?

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