• splonglo@lemmy.world
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    2 年前

    I’d say that Russia is the biggest source of suffering caused by imperialism in the world right now ( just going by the death toll of the Ukraine war ) . Is saying that a ‘distraction’ from American imperialism?

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      2 年前

      Gaza absolutely dwarfs Ukraine in terms of suffering caused by imperialism.

      Honestly, this is why I increasingly believe that people who say things like the OP don’t actually believe American Imperialism is bad, they’re just doing whataboutism to defend it.

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          2 年前

          If you’re going to try to cite a claim, please don’t just drop the Wikipedia pages on the subjects. In fact, don’t cite Wikipedia at all.

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            Complicated subjects like this have dozens of citations which often contradict eachother. The great thing about wikipedia is that it shows multiple sources and where they came from. This is a far higher standard of evidence than just cherry-picking one source that agrees with me and pretending that it’s definitive. Meanwhile the only thing you’ve cited is your imagination.

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              Yeah, but you don’t actually check any it the citations, nobody who cites Wikipedia does.

              You didn’t even say which part of the Wikipedia articles you were citing