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[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, there's the lemmy.ml tankies trying to obfuscate China's human rights abuses.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're concerned about human rights, why gloss over the US being notorious for human rights abuse? They have the largest prison population ever, comprised primarily of minorities who were obscenely experimented on during MK Ultra. Plus the prior and current treatment of Native Americans or the 6,000,000+ innocent citizens killed in the war on terror. The US is no longer even classified as a first world country. But it doesn't matter cause the news said the US is definitely the best choice for the world police.

Are you for bombing Mexico to stop the opioid crisis too? While the idea is gaining traction stateside, it takes minutes to understand of the 14,000+ pounds of fentanyl seized at the Mexican boarder in 2022, over 90% was from US citizens. But logic is totally overrated when it comes to international law I guess.

[–] mashbooq@infosec.pub 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hey, I'm the one that started the whataboutism article even.

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

The Americans doing bad shit doesn't make it alright for China and Russia to do the same bad shit. Is it alright to keep slaves just because the yanks used to do it too? Is torturing and executing prisoners acceptable behaviour to you?