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Spot the American.

The sensible and moral action is to ensure that nobody loses instead of "got mine fuck you"

If you think you've got the leverage, give it a shot.

Ethical behavior only when you have leverage is for a hollow personality.

What are you doing about the problem?

I'm opposing viewpoints that say might makes right.

I am all in support of that opposition, but then it also gives to "then be crushed with might".

How? (shitposting on the internet ain't it)

Every good thing society has accomplished is a "historical anomaly", by definition. History is very large, and very miserable.

To quote David Graeber by way of "Can't Get You Out of My Head": The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

If the elite class decides they are going to checkmate all others, winner take all, the smartest play is probably to flip the table.