• 4lan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Can we just let the leaders duke it out? 1 on 1 knife fights. Leave the people out of this shit

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      3 days ago

      If only.

      [T]he ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.

      • All Quiet on the Western Front, written by a WW1 veteran
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          3 days ago

          Nah, just good at vaguely remembering quotes and then googling things like “All Quiet On The Western Front generals quarrel quote”