Country Whataboutism Debates
Commenters debate criticisms of countries' governance, policies, or problems by comparing them to other nations, often using 'whataboutism' to deflect, relativize, or justify issues rather than addressing them directly.
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"It's worse in other countries" doesn't mean it can't be better here.
Sounds like these shithole countries need to solve something else first.
"Other countries have problems too"OK, let's just give up trying to improve then.
Seems extreme, this makes a lot of countries failures.
Don't be so US-centric. Just cause one country is failing doesn't mean that all are.
Because literally every country is worse?
Its a developing nation with its share of problems. Was this snark really necessary?
Unless you expect other countries to be in the same (or even worse) situation...
it's pretty normal in backwater countries that can't thrive on their own. otherwise not so much.
The current state of the aforementioned countries would prove otherwise, I'm afraid.