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[-] Dr_Vindaloo@lemmy.ml 55 points 3 months ago

Technically correct, but laws are only real in so far as they are enforced.

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[-] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 32 points 3 months ago

ITT: Western chauvinists looking at US abuse, grasping at straws to blame China

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 months ago

That's their standard go-to line now: they can't argue that the West is good anymore, it's become too obvious that it's not, so now they always resort to "but everyone else does it!"

[-] Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago

It's good to see Western Chauvinists be on the backfoot and getting silenced for once

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 months ago

i hope that watching the only other world power resort to sternly written letters both w this and gaza like some feckless democrat is not a portent of things to come.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 27 points 3 months ago

My country will still align with the USA citing "rules based global order"

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

This counts only if the US does it. If it was China, it would count as "a violation of the rules based global order"

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

the best part that your country will do this because the USA used it leveraged in the recent past to force your country to become amenable to it.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago
[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 14 points 3 months ago

Everyone including these assholes know that what they're doing is illegal, the only reason they're spinning it as copesthetic is to make themselves appear to be the good guys... they know no one is going to do shit about it except "bitch and moan because TDS."

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago
[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 4 points 3 months ago

Thank you. I thought it looked funny, but autocorrect didn't acknowledge it as an error. I appreciate you.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

i thought it was a coined term for cope and aesthetics lol

[-] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

...when I leave empty beer cans on the counter for copaesthetic.

[-] Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

usa using the same tactics as Iran and the Houthis, but somehow okay

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

If china cut a deal with venezuela it would get cheap oil and could protect its ships. I think the US 'department of war' may just be accellerating the shifting of world power against the US.

[-] Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Department of war is really just the vanguard party dismantling the US hard power from the inside TRUST

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Aww, shit. Here we go again

[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

And who’s gonna do anything bout it. No one. Just like every other illegal war/military action/police action/whatever.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's hilarious that China now stands for International Rule Of Law and the US stands for Piracy and Genocide.

[-] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 months ago

It's almost as if one of these nations has an ancient and deeply ingrained tradition of legalism and the other makes international law simply to use as a weapon against weaker powers

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

Why? That's usually been the case

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