Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAmericans don't want to fight for their country anymorewww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square192fedilinkarrow-up1311arrow-down147
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minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down5·1 year agoNot if you’re quite similar to that bully
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down12·1 year agoThere’s a difference between being a good country and being a global force for good. In helping to defeat the Nazis, the U.S. was a global force for good regardless of what else they did, had done or will do. The same with Stalinist Russia.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year agoBad countries can’t do good things?
minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoIf they did they’d be good countries
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoSo it was bad to defeat the Nazis and the Confederates?
minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoVultures can kill each other
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoVultures are good. They eat carrion that would otherwise rot. They also generally don’t kill each other. So I’m not sure that your analogy works.
minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoIt does because they’re despicable birds that prey on the weak
Not if you’re quite similar to that bully
There’s a difference between being a good country and being a global force for good. In helping to defeat the Nazis, the U.S. was a global force for good regardless of what else they did, had done or will do. The same with Stalinist Russia.
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Not really
Bad countries can’t do good things?
If they did they’d be good countries
So it was bad to defeat the Nazis and the Confederates?
Vultures can kill each other
Vultures are good. They eat carrion that would otherwise rot. They also generally don’t kill each other. So I’m not sure that your analogy works.
It does because they’re despicable birds that prey on the weak