Nevar

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago

I guess naked gun isn't funny to you anymore either because OJ acted in them.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Ahh. I was referring to the whataboutism fallacy from the perspective of it's use to attack third world countries on claiming double standards. You're pointing out that me raising a potential double standard hurts my argument, which if you read that wikipedia article is in of itself, a fallacy. Whataboutism is a lame logical fallacy and by lame I mean it doesn't hold a lot of legitimacy in discourse.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Celebrity power leads to purchasing of products associated with that celebrity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

The problems is that your emotions are different than my emotions so we try as a society to separate emotions when making decisions that affect everyone. It's actually part of the basis of the scientific method.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

He has a permanent advertising spend for free by being the founder of the most popular web programming language.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 years ago (8 children)

This isn't whataboutism...

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