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Indeed. Something like the Post Office Scandal would never happen anywhere but in the US.
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True, though it's hardly a like for like comparison, but on the flip side of that, something is being done now at least. This woman has been monumentally fucked over and no one is going to help her.

13 people are dead in the postal service scandal, dude. This woman is alive. "Something is being done now at least". What? Are they resurrecting them? The Archbishop of Canterbury himself is out there making Lazarus real, is he?

Yeah let's start playing a game if one-upmanship... Or you could stop it with the false equivalence?

You started some “oh only in America” crap and promptly started acting all noble once it was pointed out as bullshittery? Nice try.

If the results were swapped and this had said “13 dead after being misidentified” vs “1 jailed for 5 months in post office scandal” I’m supposed to believe you’d be all “well, at least they’re doing something about the 13 dead”?

I think we both know you’re just talking a load of crap. Admit you were wrong to downplay a large tragedy and move on.


Oh dear, no need for a hissy fit. My initial comment stands. I've tried to be reasonable but since you insist, let's see... School shootings are a regular pretty much unique American phenomenon, what else oh yeah the 2008 banking crisis, there's also the unique way American healthcare works. Together all of those far outweighs the post office scandal in terms of lives lost and scale. So yeah, only in America.

Now to you nonsense that I somehow downplayed the post office scandal by pointing out your attempt to compare apples to oranges (aka false equivalence, as in youre engaging in a logical fallacy); utter ridiculous nonsense, not even a good attempt at straw man.

Either way you're no worth engaging with further. You've nothing to add, and engaging further would risk breaking the rules of this site...




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