• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is it good to beat the shit out of the school bully after he picks a fight with you so he learns to stop picking fights with people? I would say so.

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        1 year ago

        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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          And then they took all the top scientists from Germany and Japan, who were guilty of crimes against humanity, and made them high ups in the American government