You don’t convince people of anything with one internet argument. Still, I think it’s worth it to try and state and defend your beliefs publicly. It may or may not sway anyone but it does at least force you to examine and understand your beliefs so that you can competently defend them.

i dont think there’s any value in continuing to communicate with that person. but if you must i would just tell him if he want’s to talk about china he’s more than welcome to fuck off and find someone else who wants to argue about it with him. you don’t have to defend any point you’re not making, and if you try they’ll just bring up some other bullshit gotcha they can use to justify to themselves that you’re still somehow wrong despite being factually correct.

im pretty sure they only throw out whataboutism when you try and draw parallels between what america does and what the state department is trying to get people outraged at.

they never use it to point out when someone is changing the subject after they’ve failed to defend one of their arguments.

I don’t think the cost is a concern when they’re flush with money thanks to the same politicians they’re lobbying. And they really want that genocide.

That picture has got to be the most Biden’s ever looked like that Jeff Dunham puppet.

Club Random is such a garbage name. It gets even dumber when you learn that it’s called that because he named the bar in his house “Club Random” and that’s where it’s recorded.

If the cameras they use for this are cheap enough to not have an IR filter on them you could maybe blind them with some bright IR LEDs while remaining relatively inconspicuous as long as no one points their phone camera at you.

Don’t let Janeway see this.

The pedant in me wants to point out that Microsoft had very little to do with this outage, but it’s at war with the part of me that thinks Microsoft is absolutely not worth defending in any way.