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by ronsor 1961 days ago
China has been a post-truth country for a while now.
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Seems to be a staple in diplomacy for powerful states. Can't think of any that are exempt.
How dare you. I'll have you know that here in the land of hamburgers we just play shell games with words and definitions until the dialogue is so confusing and tedious that people just get tired of fighting it.
I'm probably not the only one to observe this, but it always means something different to say "X is just as bad as Y" than "Y is just as bad as X", despite a purely logical outlook implying commutativity.