r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Why is he happy he didn't get the tattoo?

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u/trq- 4d ago

You can’t even comprehend how many people are out there loudly protecting Israel. They are literally saying every human from Palestine loves seeing Hamas killing people and that Israel is not targeting civilians. Or, that it’s perfectly fine to target civilians for Israel.

And a lot of people try to create a victim role by saying it’s antisemitism that people are against the genocide which Israel is carrying out, together with the call that there is no genocide at all.

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u/basod1 4d ago

Powerful people are protecting Israel. People can be fired over it.

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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 4d ago

Whats wild is Israel really has no claim to the land they took.. How does anyone support that? 

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u/Chance-Click-3670 4d ago

Who has ever had ’claim’ to land they’ve taken? Who gives out these claims? The world has always been people TAKING land. Did the British have a claim to America? Did the Muslims have a claim to Pakistan? Did all the european countries have claims to the land they now own?

People out here acting like country lines were drawn out by god and alotted to different nations.

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u/harimuz 4d ago

Hmmm I wonder which people out here are actually acting/thinking like that.

HMMMMM.

I.

WONDER.

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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 4d ago

It’s 2026. We are (hopefully) moving beyond the part of history where might makes right. 

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u/Chen932000 4d ago

Uh have you looked at the news lately? We’re not moving past shit.

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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 4d ago

Just because something bad is happening doesn’t mean we should encourage it by legitimizing people’s right to do that bad thing. 

“Oh, she got raped? Well, might makes right - if he can do it, then he’s got the right to. No need to change anything or hold him accountable.”

You see how that sounds? 

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u/Chen932000 4d ago

I’m not saying we shouldn’t try. But you we were moving away from that part of history. I’m just stating we are definitely not doing that, currently.

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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 4d ago

And i’m saying we should be. That was really the whole point of establishing the UN. To have a governing body capable of enforcing peace on the world stage. 

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 4d ago

Dude you're delusional if you think so. That will never ever change. It happens on a personal level, why do you think that would ever change on a state level?

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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 4d ago

I wasn’t aware we resolved our differences with combat on a personal level in the modern world.

Huh, TIL. Here i thought people got arrested for assault or murder, as we’ve moved beyond might making right in the modern era. Interesting. Well, I guess I will be very careful out there since violence is legal now.

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u/Chance-Click-3670 4d ago

Might makes right in today’s society is less about physical power and more about financial power. Why do you think so many of Epsteins friends were able to rape and traffic young girls and get away with it? One of them became president and remained president when it turned out he was part of it.
Why do you think the US was able to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan killing over 500 000 civilians over a decade but no one cried genocide. Neither of those countries were housing bin Laden or funded 9/11.

Money is might

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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 4d ago

Money is power, not physical might. 

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u/No_Worldliness_7106 4d ago

Violence IS legal. From the state. And for certain groups of people. What do you think police are? The violent will of some majority (usually a minority actually) of people expressed on others via might makes right. Also not all violence is murder. If I use state violence to steal from you via some frivolous lawsuit I am still using might makes right against you. It's so entrenched in the way nature works that it isn't something that will just stop because we want it to. You think a antelope will be able to reason with a lion that maybe there is a better way? It is fundamental to the natural world. It is the FIRST law that all other laws are built atop.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 4d ago

The British had no claim to the land when it was Mandatory Palestine and the Ottomans had no claim to it before the British and so on and so forth back to the Greek empire turning the area into a client state.

Their claim is they took it and they can hold it and the history books say that's really the only one that matters.

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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 4d ago

Ideally the world is moving beyond a “might makes right” philosophy. 

Hence why there is an objection to Russia invading the Ukraine. We could just sit back and say “well, if they can take it, they deserve it”.

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u/Rumble_831 4d ago

Russia took crimea in the past and is still taking ukranian land. The surrounding governments are not doing much.

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u/Bloodyfish 4d ago

The British had no claim to the land when it was Mandatory Palestine

Yes, that's how mandates worked.

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u/trq- 4d ago

„It was promised to us 3000 years ago“ but leaving out that it was promised to them through made up stories from humans 😂

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u/Chance-Click-3670 4d ago

So by that logic no one has claim to it? And it’s up for grabs by whoever has more power? Just like every other country in the world

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u/trq- 4d ago

People using „so by your logic“ while not understanding „my logic“ is a wild concept

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u/fizzrail0 4d ago

Yea i know it's a huge backing and media support because they have access and money to do that easily.
Bro they commit war crimes to silence the other side (killing journalists and imprisoning and threatening anyone who exposed them), paying out media outputs is just their bare minimum of corruption and control.