• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Bullies also don’t have nuclear weapons.

    Stop comparing people to countries. The scale makes it so absurd, because nuclear weapons could end the god damn world.

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        1 year ago

        You were using an analogy where a bully threatens to beat you up and take your money.

        That’s nothing like the current situation. The current situation is a nuclear armed nation is willing to wage an endless war and we’re throwing money and bombs and tanks at the problem trying to make it go away. You’re comparing small scale things to nuclear scale things and it’s really just absurd.

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          You were using an analogy where a bully threatens to beat you up and take your money.

          No, I wasn’t.

          That’s nothing like the current situation. The current situation is a nuclear armed nation is willing to wage an endless war and we’re throwing money and bombs and tanks at the problem trying to make it go away.

          No, it’s not.

          You’re comparing small scale things to nuclear scale things and it’s really just absurd.

          No, I’m not.

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              1 year ago

              My quote, not theirs. Also Russia is a bully. Similar to the kind that takes lunch money, but on a much larger scale

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                You can’t just increase the scale and expect things to stay the same!

                If those nukes are ever touched it’s the end of the fucking world.

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                  And if a home invader with commercially available arms so decided it’s the end of your family. That’s how scale works.

                  But you don’t give in to a bully to avoid violence. That’s how you get more people/countries bullied.

                  This is not intended as a threat of violence. This is an analogy to make a point that should be obvious

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      By your logic, no one should stand up to the US either because we have enough glowy ordinance to turn Russia, China, and Iran into glass and have enough nukes to end all life a million times over.