Carawel@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · edit-227 days 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-square312fedilinkarrow-up1631arrow-down15
arrow-up1626arrow-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-227 days agomessage-square312fedilink
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up67·27 days 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-up29·27 days 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-up18·27 days agoMight makes right is the very foundation of rightism.
minus-squareFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·27 days agoMight doesn’t make right morally, but I suppose it can politically.
minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·27 days agoIt cannot… that makes no sense… that’s like saying me knocking you out makes me the better chess player
minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·27 days 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