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.

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• jafra@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No we don’t see, because that isn’t whataboutism.

        Whataboutism would be saying that even though your medicine killed 30 people, your competitors medicine killed 50 people so yours isn’t that bad.

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• jafra@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hahaha, nice 1

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