Comment by mrighele | Hacker News Reader

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Cases like Assange's or Snowden are famous because they are a rare event.

And they are still alive. Had they done the same to Russia they would have been poisoned with novichok or polonium, or they would have fell from a window, or ...

How many journalists have been killed for criticizing the POTUS ? [1][2]

How many for criticizing the war in Afghanistan, or Iraq ?

What about human rights advocates ?

Has any doctor been killed for criticizing the federal response to Covid-19 ? [3]

The US have their fair share of problem regarding freedom of speech, but they are really not at all at the same level as Russia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...

[3] https://www.vox.com/2020/5/6/21248553/coronavirus-russia-doc...

Only if you ignore the number of prominent people killed by the US government to keep them quiet. We know from court cases and declassified documents: Fred Hampton, MLK, Malcolm X, Gary Webb, Frank Olson, Collateral Murder (Chelsea Manning leak), Paul Guihard, Walter Reuther, Walter Liggett, Danny Casolaro, Mark Lombardi, and on and on. Most journalists you don't need to kill. You just ruin their careers like the NYT did to Chris Hedges when he criticized the Iraq war.

The world isn't black and white nor is it binary. Yes US is flawed in many ways, Russia is on a whole other level of horribleness.

It's like comparing pre WW2 France with Nazi Germany...

At least in what regards you seeing yourselves "exceptional", and the vicious antirussian propaganda, effectively encouraging to kill, maim, religiously persecute and take away human rights from the russian people (openly in Ukraine, less openly in Baltic states and eastern europe, not so openly, but nevertheless actively, in the rest of the world), I would say that there is a stronger analogy between the nazi Germany and you.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb...

Good find but Malta is the cayman islands of Europe. And Cyprus.

Malta has/had(?) its own issues including a thoroughly corrupt government. It's much more likely that US or any other external force had very little to do with this...

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