More like idolatry, if we’re being precise.

Is this them sucking up to her after the interview?

And now, when we complain about foreign meddling, we can rightfully be reminded of what our side did to others…

Oh, you haven’t heard? Bringing up any comparison with anything is now whataboutism, and means you’re actually Russian.

I find the opposite works fine: I don’t have to know the exact words, but I doo look up the translation to know what the song is actually about.

English is three languages in a trench coat.

Spanglish is four languages in a trench coat.

Funny thing, I made the same question in reverse once, and the crowd on here descended on me for “whataboutism”.

Yeah, I heard it was the next big scifi trilogy, but when I read it it was like “Really? This?”

I get the distinct impression that some people are simply unable to concieve of a perspective different from their own. For lack of a better comparison, it’s like those Christian movies where everyone, including the atheist, openly believes God exists, but the atheist chooses to be an atheist out of spite or malice or whatever. So for some, disagreement is at best you being a troll or shill or bot, and at worst a frontal attack at their entire conception of the world.

Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge To break international copyright law By downloading MP3’s from file sharing sites Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA

It’s not cheaper, it costs me time.

If youre lazy/busy enough, doing basic checks on the input is enough boilerplate to package out.

It does make sense, but if you start down that road, would the rest of the world be justified in seizing US assets to give to Sadam or the Taliban? After all, the invasion of Georgia practically copied the justification for bombing Yugoslavia. Or, where do you draw the line? Remember the last Venezuelan elections, when they declared the other guy the winner and handed him a bunch of gold that was a loan collateral?

But beyond that, the only reason there are any assets to seize is because it’s understood they won’t be seized. Anyone not part of the west is an idiot if they keep relying on anything that depends on being in the west’s good graces. And anyone not an idiot will seek to decouple and construct fallbacks and alternatives, and then any leverage over them is lost.

The problem isn’t “it’s right/wrong to do this”, it’s “will doing this come back to bite me in the ass at a later date?”

More like, what’s gonna stop the US from seizing Chinese assets? Or, rather, why would anyone trust the US with their assets if they can just be seized when your country becomes politically problematic? The core point is that the only reason the west has so many foreign assets and investments is because the rest of the world trusts them not to be seized and sold off. It would be less damaging long term to just print more money.

Frankly, the fact that they do have a point, buried somewhere under the publicity stunts, is the most infuriating thing about PETA.

Tim Curry’s gonna have an aneurysm.

…NGL that kinda sounds fun

Doesn’t Israel say they use an AI to pick bombing targets?

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/as+a+whole

You’re right, you’re not.

It’s only an insult if you have no idea what an actual insult is.

This is only an argument if you have no idea what an actual argument is.