I’ve seen a number of people trying to deny the truth, and it’s honestly sickening at this point. How bad do things have to get for people to acknowledge what I recognized on the night of November 5th? People really cannot handle reality as it is.
I’ve seen a number of people trying to deny the truth, and it’s honestly sickening at this point. How bad do things have to get for people to acknowledge what I recognized on the night of November 5th? People really cannot handle reality as it is.
“historical norms”
roll my eyes.
nothing goes backwards the cat never goes back in the bag and roughly humanity has always tried to trudge forward but life has always persevered.
Fight for your rights definitely, be aware of today but nothing is permanent and we’ve only ever gained rights and power.
No, we literally just lost every institutional right. The only right we have is the right of nature to do what we want. Not even oligarchs can rely on private ownership beyond the knights they can employ, and that can always be overridden by fascist state.
Nothing is permanent, which is why we can and have always lost freedom. People will live on, but there is no guarantee you or everyone that matters to you won’t be systemically exterminated through genocide.
History is not a tale of “progress,” but evolution in new directions. That evolution can be towards chattel slavery when you had freedom, or out of it towards an equitable coexistence. We’re heading into slavery and genocide rn, so buckle up buttercup.
I disagree.
I think that is a rather absurd notion. Freedom was never there, what people called freedom was the freedom to stand atop the bloody backs of others and we’ve always been okay with that. That’s the society we live in and that will always continue, just today this time it is on your front lawn.
Elaborate. There are a couple things I think you could be saying, but I’m not sure which if any it might be.
I will also say that I was very imprecise with that sentence. I should’ve said “… which is why we have always lost or gained freedom.” There are many ways to understand freedom, but regardless of the specifics, people have had more or less of it at different points in time.
The freedom to exert state control on society through voting, or the enforcement by anyone of informal social agreements in a non state system are restrictions on absolute freedom. That absolute freedom to our self determination. Societies can and have restricted some freedom to prevent it from taking freedom from others, but they often only maximize the freedom of very few at the expense of everyone else’s.
Your understanding of freedom is unclear to me, so I can’t really agree or disagree.