Tankies are going to be upset, because according to them, Democrats are just as bad as Republicans.

Yeah I thought that. This is probably just Trump’s attempt to appear “neutral” when he isn’t actually neutral.

In both cases you have a person doing something that many people would consider bad. Then this person gets mad when others find out about their behaviour. If you don’t want people to find out you did something, maybe just don’t do it in the first place.

I think it’s pretty comparable. The guys in the OP are getting mad at Derek but they’re the ones who said bad things in the first place. Their actions caused this. All Derek did was let people know the truth, and maybe it’s good when people know the truth.

If you find out that someone cheated on their wife, do you have to keep it private to protect the cheater’s “privacy”?

Maybe it’s better if that person’s wife knows the truth.

Good guy Derek

Maybe Lemmy is a 2020s version of phpBB (the forum software, which is open source like Lemmy is). Lemmy and phpBB can both be hosted by anyone, but of course the interesting thing about Lemmy is that Lemmy servers can share their content with each other.