You shouldn't ever tell anyone here to fuck off. It's not polite. You may get penalized.
That said, your examples are indeed corruption. But the parent did not make any equivalency. He gave purported examples of corruption. One can say that they're unsubstantiated, but that's a different argument.
I'm no longer willing to be quiet or polite on these topics. Luckily, HN accounts are cheap.
And yes, saying "If you want to look at corruption in the US" and then avoiding mentioning the extremely large and very apparent corruption actively happening right now in the Trump admin - that is intentionally creating a false equivalency by implicitly saying "what's happening right now doesn't matter it's the same old same old."
You shouldn't ever tell anyone here to fuck off. It's not polite. You may get penalized.
That said, your examples are indeed corruption. But the parent did not make any equivalency. He gave purported examples of corruption. One can say that they're unsubstantiated, but that's a different argument.
I'm no longer willing to be quiet or polite on these topics. Luckily, HN accounts are cheap.
And yes, saying "If you want to look at corruption in the US" and then avoiding mentioning the extremely large and very apparent corruption actively happening right now in the Trump admin - that is intentionally creating a false equivalency by implicitly saying "what's happening right now doesn't matter it's the same old same old."
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Oh hey it's that unserious person I interacted with recently in a different thread.
So you're OK with the Trump admin's rampant corruption?
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