• 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Shouting “whataboutism” every time someone brings up context isn’t lazy?

    You can judge governments against perfection, you can judge them against the governments they replaced, or you can judge them against peer governments. The two realistic options involve comparisons, and those types of comparisons happen to be a key component of what passes for international law, too.