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stavros • yesterday at 10:01 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

What is the point of this "no true Scotsman" comment, exactly? To defend Vucic? Or to say that what the people managed to do wasn't very hard because they managed to do it?


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falserum • yesterday at 10:44 PM

If you question was honest, most likely - a dislike for semantic bleaching.

Also, some (not me), have survived regimes like Tito, Assad or Saddam, they definitely would have different perspective on word oppression.

(A thing to get us on the same ground, lets call him extremely corrupt, very few will dispute that)

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jibalt • yesterday at 11:33 PM

It's actually a fallacy of relative privation.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Relativ...