• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    I never once claimed to be an expert. I claimed to have facts and statistics, do you believe that facts only count if they come from the country you live in?

    If person A from country X says one thing, and persons B and C from country X say the opposite, does that automatically prove A correct? It doesn’t automatically prove B and C correct either, but you took issue with me pointing out that B and C disagree with A.

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      11 hours ago

      You lecture people on the other side of the world about theire life by quoting a statistic from a relativly unfree and authocratic state …

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        11 hours ago

        I have spoken with several people from post-soviet states who lived during Socialism as well, and speak of it fondly. When all they have is anecdotes and all I have are statistics and data I can find, I end up agreeing more with the people whose opinions align with the material reality of the facts at hand.

        If I were from another country, I wouldn’t care much for.the opinion of a US Trump supporter who thinks Biden is a Communist.