Comment by klipklop
2 days ago
This is pure whataboutism and made in bad faith. I feel for your friend (if they exist beyond you trying to make an argument), but there are various physical and legal ways to protect yourself from this situation in the US. This edge case is not a good enough reason help shield foreign oligarchs and large corps holding real estate in secret. There is probably a compromise somewhere between both extremes.
> This is pure whataboutism
This is by definition not whataboutism. Whataboutism is when you distract from a thing with unrelated things (e.g. "but there are more important bad things going on in the world than this!"). It is not whataboutism to bring up legitimate related counterarguments for a policy.
True, I did misuse it to a degree. I was actually a bit unsure.
You'll have to trust me that she's real, but I promise you that this is a real situation that she's actually concerned about.