Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

lemonhat75@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• jafra@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Your downvotes hint to this actually being juust some more imperialistic propaganda

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  • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The downvotes hint at a general awareness by users that whataboutism is a playground debate technique on par with, “I know you are, but what am I?”.

    If a point is valid in a vacuum but has no bearing on the topic, it absolutely should get a negative reaction.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      no actually i disagree with that.

      imagine you develop a new medication (let’s call it Medius just to give it a latin-sounding name) and you give it out to 100 patients suffering from a certain disease. Shortly after, 30 of these people die.

      Now certainly critics can say your medicine is dogshit because it killed 30 people. You might respond “well normally around 80% of people suffering of that disease die” but that would be whataboutism … just because they die without your medicine doesn’t justify that some people die when you give them your medicine.

      You see?

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• jafra@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hahaha, nice 1

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