Carawel@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · edit-24 months agoWhite House Official: Why do we have the right to take Greenland? Because we live in a world governed by strength, by power. We have power. Nobody can fight the United States militarilywww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square289linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkWhite House Official: Why do we have the right to take Greenland? Because we live in a world governed by strength, by power. We have power. Nobody can fight the United States militarilywww.nytimes.comCarawel@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square289linkfedilink
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoGee, I thought we lived in a world governed by laws because we realized the whole “might makes right” thing ends up being an unmitigated disaster at the end of the day.
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoAnd then China/BRICS use their financial might to kill the dollar as reserve currency and they’ll all cry that it’s against the rules.
minus-squareBlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoMight makes right is the very foundation of rightism.
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoMight doesn’t make right morally, but I suppose it can politically.
minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIt cannot… that makes no sense… that’s like saying me knocking you out makes me the better chess player
minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoyes but at the same time, people like Miller helped me realize that public executions made perfect sense
Gee, I thought we lived in a world governed by laws because we realized the whole “might makes right” thing ends up being an unmitigated disaster at the end of the day.
And then China/BRICS use their financial might to kill the dollar as reserve currency and they’ll all cry that it’s against the rules.
Might makes right is the very foundation of rightism.
Might doesn’t make right morally, but I suppose it can politically.
It cannot… that makes no sense… that’s like saying me knocking you out makes me the better chess player
yes but at the same time, people like Miller helped me realize that public executions made perfect sense