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There's no "hack". The article says the bots edited an open wiki website.

Language is a proxy of something much bigger, if we’re talking about taking up arms for.

Because my browser is an extremely sensitive piece of software and I don’t trust just anybody to provide it for me.

This is not a case of vandalism by other users. Google made this change because they use the names officially recognised by the government of the US.

It used to be the case that you would see someone posting under an avatar like that and you would dismiss their argument right away without even reading it.

They should have considered not lying in their residence permit applications. I mean, what you are saying sounds like completely reasonable reasons to deport someone. They lied because they knew their application would’ve been denied had they said the truth.

"You know x is good based on who hates it" is too generic an argument to be useful. It applies to so many things.

In threads about the Russian war if you mention that the US has done worse your comments are removed and people complain about "whataboutism".

In this thread, on the other hand, people keep bringing up that the US has done worse but those comments are upvoted and there is no mention of "whataboutism" in the entire thread.

A king could… but that’s never going to happen.

All parliamentary democracies.

If you have the majority, you can’t even be removed through a vote of no confidence.

In most modern democratic countries (I don't know about the US, since I'm European) executive and legislative branches are one and the same, so that still holds up!