And if something did maybe happen, it’s the CIA’s fault

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    1 month ago

    Nice whataboutism. How hard can it be to understand that China having a shitty government does not mean that the US is perfect?

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      1 month ago

      Whatabwhat? Do you think that’s what I don’t understand? No, I get it. It’s just that, if you are an US American defending your government, I couldn’t care less about your opinion on matters of other nations.

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        1 month ago

        I am not a Yank, and I sure as hell aren’t defending them.

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          You sure react in favor of the USA government. I mentioned a case of a massacre of hundreds of students in a public square in a completely different country because it is related to the OP. The treatment of this case was the same: “nothing happened here, nothing to see”. The USA, through the CIA, got involved in the whole thing. Your reaction? You accuse me of “whataboutism”, overlooking the fact of the massacre. You do not even mention anything about it with your “nice whataboutism”. Well, it was not nice at all, but it happened. My intention was to show another horrible and similar case of deadly authoritarianism against students. I’m expecting people can hold two or more similar crimes against humanity in their brains for a while.

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            1 month ago

            So you agree that the Tianmen Square Massacre truly happened and is just as inexcusable as the other example you brought up?

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                Oh, okay. I just made the assumption that you were denying it since bringing up a bad this the USA has done/does as a response to any criticism of China is really common on Lemmy.