this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2024
1565 points (98.9% liked)

News

22595 readers
4118 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (18 children)

The idea is to have some experience in politics in lower positions before taking on the hot seat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

So it's okay to have a constitutionally-mandated age requirement, but not a no-treason requirement?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not whataboutism. I'm showing the hypocrisy in one rule being justified, but not the other, so as to argue more effectively against the age rule. Whataboutism is when you change the subject.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is 100% whataboutism. There is no denying it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not whataboutism: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/whataboutism-origin-meaning

Whataboutism is about switching the topic and reversal of accusation.

OP said that we have minimum age to be president, but according to SCOTUS it is a-ok to be a felon and running for the office.

A whataboutism in the subject of this post, where we talking about impeachment of Thomas and Alito would be "what about Pelosi's stocks"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you. That's a great example of real whataboutism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago
load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (13 replies)