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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Meanwhile the US has successfully made people forget about the revelations that Edward Snowden made.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The US rolled our democratically elected government in the 70s and we still lick their boots to this day. You'd be forgiven for thinking I was talking about a country in the third world, but I'm talking about Australia.

Edit, source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Midnight Oil made a song about it, "Power and the Passion."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah but whatabout the 30 million people Mao killed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the post is about a new RISC-V laptop and someone came in with "butwhatabout china!!'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

That's not whataboutism.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

You sound like a tankie. I bet you think the Tik Tok ban is unfair, while staying quiet on any of the dozen+ western companies and platforms that are outright blocked in China.