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And here's the letter to their shareholders: https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3lheqs7bx2k2r https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.so

• pseudalopex 2y ago
  Wow. “The unfortunate thing, either in business or politics, is that many of one's adversaries and antagonists will never respond to anything but strength—that crude form of power that does not ask for but which requires compliance and deference. And so strength we have built.” “As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.’ “He continued: ‘Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.’”
  • archagon 2y ago
    "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."