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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends how far you want to keep going back...English talking about Russia and Ukraine like they don't still occupy most of Wales

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends how far you want to keep going back ….English talking about Russia and Ukraine like we don’t still occupy all of Cornwall.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends how far you want to keep going back ….Wessex dudes talking about Russia and Ukraine like we don’t still occupy all of Mercia.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love this logic.

If we follow it, then nobody should have stood up to Hitler, because it would mean allying with the racist US and imperial Britain.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because when other countries "stood up" to Hitler it was for moral reasons 🤡

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

LMFAO this is what happens when you get "education" under a western regime. The racist US and imperial Britain were completely and utterly irrelevant to defeating Hitler. In fact, what they actually accomplished was to ensure that the horrors of capitalism would continue to this day. With the US, it would have been USSR that liberated all of Europe from both the nazis and capitalist oppression.

Don't take my word for it though. Here's what a book produced by US military has to say on the subject.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Because the US and UK did nothing else during the war except lend-lease of course. The bombing of German industry, blockades of their supply lines, the Africa-campaigns, extensive intelligence operations, no all of that definitely did nothing and didn't contribute to the war effort at all.

It's likely the Allies would have won the war without the US involved, though it's estimated it would have taken much longer. Without UK involvement, it's more probable that the Germans could have achieved a victory, though perhaps not a total capitulation of the Soviets. Without a western front to guard as heavily, they would probably have taken Moscow by the end of 41 (irl they were 20 miles out). Japan would also have a much freeer reign in the pacific theatre.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This. The Russians did all the work and the US and UK come and take the credit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How many people a month were dying because of the Nazis?

I love how you ignore those lives as meaningless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (28 children)

Then we might as well ask how many people a months has US led world order killed since WW2 ended.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Don't forget the Falklands.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never heard of them. Maybe you mean the Malvinas.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Quite right you are. So I did.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They talk shit on every country as if they live in a utopia which is genuinely hilarious

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I want to know who thinks we live in a utopia.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

the french talking about russia and ukraine

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

As it happens you don't actually have to be a social chauvinist for the country in which you reside.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The other day I was thinking about tensions that exist in part because of British-drawn borders. Israel-Palestina, India-Pakistan. Can't believe I forgot NI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If Northern Ireland decided to reunite with the rest of Ireland it would solve so many problems... good luck trying to convince the Northern Irish of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah yes. Whataboutism. Suppose a robber acts in defense of a person about to be robbed. That may or may not make them a hypocrite, but it certainly doesn't make them wrong.

Or would you say it would somehow be more right for the robber to stand back and allow the robbery "because they're in no position to point fingers"?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

One might worry about the motivations behind a murderer who murders another murderer and what that might mean for the original victim.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It’s you that is whatabouting. We could (Read:should) have defended them without robbing their land.

Further to that; it doesn’t excuse the fact that we have never returned the land to them. Bit of a process appreciated, but it would have made the incredibly difficult and moronic brexit process a bit easier.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

If anything it would be more a 'tu quoque' fallacy than whataboutism, because the latter tries to shift the attention to an unrelated topic, whereas here it is occupying land both times.

It certainly weakens the criticism, because the robber in your example might do the right thing, but if they really opposed robbing, surely they wouldn't do it themselves? As you said, it makes them a hypocrite, and makes you question their motive for measuring two cases with a different yardstick.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OOP smells like a pro-putin propaganda account. Someone else doing something bad doesn't make your own acts of murder any more justifiable, especially when you're murdering someone completely different than the wrongdoer.

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