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lemmy.ml

Well, he is Turkish. It stands to reason he has a cat.

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I am not Turkish. Please don’t assume. I was just celebrating the fact Turkish people love cats. Why do you have to be so negative about every one?

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lemmy.world

Comparing Turkey to itself is sure as hell not that. That's an F, sit down.

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suctionreply
lemmy.world

“You say A is bad, but what about B?!”

Pretty clear case.

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nomousreply
lemmy.world

Just take the L for trying to shoehorn nationalism and xenophobia into the thread.

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"Take the L", wow, that's original! Did you hear that on Reddit?

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Yeah why would someone go and change the subject? This is a sweet picture of a cat in a community about cats therefore we're trying to insult this guy's nationality and talk about genocide.

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lemmy.world

Yes, you saying Erdo has moved Turkey 200 years ago and thus saying that his Turkey is worse than anything in that timespan is a pretty clear case.

It's pretty usual for Turkey. It's never been a real democracy before Özal, and all the time till Erdo technically military still could depose the government. What Erdo changed is that apparently now this can't happen. He made it technically more democratic if anything.

I mean, OK, if we compare this to Russia which only had one kinda democratic president (who was also president of RSFSR, so basically no single fully normal power transfer in modern Russian history), then yeah, they had a few normal presidents and Erdo broke that chain.

But then why is it 200 years, the Ottoman empire had Tanzimat, you know. Eh, until the good sultan died and the maniac took his place, abolished all those laws and started killings.

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Point out where I said “it’s worse than anything in that timespan?”

I didn’t. Your inherent tendency to become too emotional in a discussion seems to be clouding your judgement. Unsurprising.

Next you’ll probably show me the 🤘

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Kiernianreply
lemmy.world

Wow. That's the first time anyone has managed to explain whataboutism in a way that makes sense.

For years it's been all "fallacious logic" this and "counter-argument" that. "Reductio", "partial tu quoque", "changing the subject", and a myriad of other things that say lots while describing little.

Thank You.

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It's literally called "what about" ism.... That's on you my man

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There’s too many pictures of this guy, but I’ll allow this. Cute kitty.

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lemmy.world

I didn’t care or know who he was …

But now? I’m cheering.

I’ll cheer for anyone who posts their cat photos.

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FuglyDuckreply
lemmy.world

I realize this. My not-caring has to do more with … Olympics. Broadly speaking, i find sports in general to be very much boring.

Now if they brought robotics into the fold I’d be all in.

But I’ll cheer a bit for this guy cuz he dropped a cat photo. Maybe we’ll get more.

(for example the FIRST league, or maybe battle bots style fights,)

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Shellbeachreply
lemmy.world

Did you mean hard to root for Erdoğan? Super easy to root for Turkey, lovely country, lovely people

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Like one of those dads who didn't want a cat but then become the cats main person.

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Where can I find thw original video of him shooting in olympics? All I see is stupis news channels making slideshow of image

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jonnereply
infosec.pub

For just a few weeks until he follows the Turkish guy going viral path that Salt Bae took.

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He looks like Eugene Levy, that guy who plays the dad in every teen comedy film.

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I smell a new John Wick spinoff if there would be anything unpleasent happening to the cat.

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lemmy.world

I'm so sick of this guy. Also what's with the assumption he's worth celebrating, there are plenty of crappy people out there, and this middle age Turkish man who likes sports shooting could indeed be one of them.

Winning an Olympic medal isn't a guarantee if having a winning personality or even being a good person. So can we just stop.

At least give the Gold medal winner a bit more credit.

I'm just sick of seeing this guy everywhere.

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Winning an Olympic medal isn't a guarantee [of] having a winning personality or even being a good person.

But he also has a cat.

#catgang

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