Growing up, my Dad always said, "The police aren't here to protect you, they're here to protect property."

so, what you're saying is, we really DO live in a society

The footage of The Golden One flexing, combined with a serious explanation of the concept of justice in Roman law has to be the ultimate pinnacle of Youtube as a medium XD

"ideas don't just float around in the heavens"
plato laughing in the distance

This is a really good take but the title makes it look like a muscular dragon is about to preach me on why sending 5 year olds to coal mines is good actually

00:32 absolutely. When someone says "it's just common sense" what they actually mean is "my biases are the objective truth"

How to make a libertarian genuinely scared:
"I believe in positive liberty."

To paraphrase George Carlin, 'I guess God was doing sloppy work that week, because he had to go back amend that Bill of Rights 27 times.' and 'You have no rights folks, you have privileges. Temporary privileges."

Me to my homies after a few pints:

at some point "self-evident" was "god-given" instead; they just wanted to make it atheist- and future-proof

"Whenever we feel that some notion or idea is impossible to do without there is a kind of therapy we can utilize: it's called history."- CP
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"Chinese With Socialist Characteristics" is my favorite patreon... don't know him personally, never talked with him/her online... but that name...

I live in Austria and we have a very powerful social safety net that is how you point out the institutionalised result of countless often violent class struggles in the past. Nowadays people take these rights and privileges for granted and forgot that they had to be fought for and instead vote for parties that erode our social safety net in the name of neoliberal ideology.

Christians weren’t the first to conceptualize the soul. Plato also spoke often of the immortal soul as a foundation for his arguments on the Good and Just.

A spooky critique of human rights near Halloween


Stirner's ghost sends his regards

Also, as Derrick Bell pointed out, human rights are always procedural and never substantive, i.e. they do not guarantee you the right to meet your physiological needs (food, water, shelter, sociality, etc) but only to abstract, state-managed processes which are only vaguely connected to what your body, mind, and spirit actually require to be happy and healthy.

"you have only as many rights as you are willing to take."
- emma goldman on stirner, anarchism and other essays

So basically 'human rights' is the closed system that the state allows infinite movement within?

June 2020: "Wow I should do some research on police abolition,  this is a pretty interesting social idea that leftists are bringing up"
August 2020: "The Problem With Human Rights"

>Right of access to food.
>Right of access to clean water.
>Right of access to a clean bed.
>Right of access to clean clothes.
>Right of access to shelter.
>Right of access to medical care.
>Right of access to quality education.
>Right of access to hygiene products.
>Right of access to the workforce.

These are the most important rights in my book. And none of them are recognized as rights by liberal regimes.