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Called out by the current government that dog whistles?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

I’ll take virtue signaling over dog whistling any day.

I bet he doesn’t call out Apple after Cook kissed the golden ring during the photo op last year.

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Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar. Where it leads is equal parts predictable, nasty, and dumb. We're trying for better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It’s a post about the government calling out tech companies for being influenced about China but it is inappropriate to call out the same government’s hypocrisy?

A post about the government is going to be political by definition.

Sure, but it doesn't have to be flamebait. We want curious conversation, not denunciatory rhetoric, and those two don't go together.

If you want to read more about how we moderate this sort of thing on HN, I've written lots about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Companies need to stop doing business if the leaked drone footage of Uygher Muslims is true. But this is likely a statement from Barr made because Trump himself is about as effective as a burnt noodle in a gunfight in terms of foreign policy right now. The best he can do is act through others.

You mean like the government stopped doing business with Saudi Arabia after 9/11 or how we didn’t support the Osama led Sandinistas in the 80s?

The US government can’t exactly stand up tsk tsking with any type of moral authority on anything.

Not taking a stand just because the US Government doesn't lead by example is foolish

Textbook whataboutism

Please keep this tired trope off HN. It's fallacious to begin with [1], and canned arguments are not what we're looking for on HN—if you think about it, comments like this are covered by the site guideline:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I’m calling out a government who could care less about foreign influence and only cares about the fact that tech companies won’t kiss the golden ring. I’m calling out the government’s motives.

Do you think they would call out the Koch brothers?

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