Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by hnlmorg on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:06AM
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I’d prefer if there wasn’t any dominant powers. But that goes against human nature it seems.
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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by kelnos on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:17AM
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Sure, that would be great. But we live in a world where that kind of thing is probably inevitable.
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by kasey_junk on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:53AM
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Why do we assume that would be great? The last time we had no dominant power it lead to ww1…
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by hnlmorg on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:49AM
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If anything, WW1 happened because there were too many empires rather than a lack of any dominant powers.
Unless you’re suggesting that what the world needs is a single dominant empire? Which would be an odd position to take because history has proven that monopolies are much much worse for abusing power.
Maybe if/when we colonise other planets we can think of the Earth as a single government with countries acting like states (kind of like the EU but with less sovereignty for each state). However that’s only going to happen if we work together and generally cooperation is viewed as counterproductive to empire building. So we come full circle back to my original point.