The Octonaut

It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.

Do you not consider Russians human?

You want examples of Chinese companies disregarding copyright? Uh.

www.aliexpress.com? Or, yknow, the actual article we’re commenting on?

You think I’m going to shift the goalposts for one example? Ok, yeah that definitely overrules literally decades of behaviour. You win. Here’s your Internet reward for the best argument. ⭐️

Explained is not the same as justified.

I would have thought this was obvious but forcing your rivals to abide by their own rules while flouting them yourself is not an endorsement of those rules, it’s a mockery of them.

I have no issue with people going after China. I’m not a hexbear/ml stooge. It is possible for two things to be bad. It is possible for something about a bad entity to be neutral or at least unsurprising. Which is how I would describe China’s lack of real interest in engaging with, from their perspective, the global order’s new fad interest in intellectual property rights.

And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.

Arf arf arf

No, but this might shock you, other countries have different definitions of what theft is. Theft is taking something from someone.

The funny part being that it is literally enshrined in American law that game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, so its not even in the definition of theft in America either.

“Issues with westerners” is an odd choice given that I’m Irish but ok.

It’s not my job to comfort American fragility. Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.

If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.

We used to just call that “pointing out hypocrisy” before Americans found a thought terminating phrase for it

abduct Chinese paper makers, imprison them, steal the technology

sneak into China, impersonate religious figures, hide silkworms on your person, sell to a Roman emperor

sail into China, pretend to be a botanist. Steal tea and grow it in your starving colonies instead of food

“Why don’t China care about western patents and copyright?”