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The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.
(www.nytimes.com)
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Those guns have more constitutional rights than the school children that are indiscriminately murdered with them.
rights are a fiction. all that matters is power. you're not going to fix your problems relying on the rhetoric that surrounds a fiction. you need to seize power.
I didn't know Carl Schmitt had a Lemmy Account!
baby, I'm an anarchist
Nah, the sovereignty of ones rights is one of the most important tenants of anarchism.
The idea that they are a fiction and that power is what matters is the bedrock of 20th century authoritarianism from Nazism to MLism to Maoism and so on.
I am the authority on my own politics. you can't tell me I'm not an anarchist.
Yeah but you're not an authority on everyone else's, which is what you're trying to be when you insist that anarchism is compatible with the notion that rights are a fiction.
Literally no other anarchist will agree with that just on the principle of words having meanings that are generally consistent from user to user.
wrong
First, learn to comment once spambot.
And second, either you're a moron or you believe anarchy is just no rules which means yeah you're still a moron it's just that you're also a utopian which is a special kind of moron.
calling me names doesn't change whether I'm right and you can't tell me what to do.
it is
no, I'm not.
rights are what thos in power say you may do. if we destroy the structures of power, the language of "rights" is vestigial.
Yeah no, rights are what a society protects from infringement by individual authority figures regardless of official codification or not.
Destroying the structures of unjust and unneeded hierarchy doesn't render rights vestigial it just makes it a lot easier to guarantee them against abuse by authority figures.
have you ever seen a right? are these rights in the room with us, now? when people in power take your right to privacy through the patriot act, does your right to privacy still exist?
the answer to all of these is "no".
you can keep telling stories about rights, but they are no more real than Santa clause.
...says the only country where it's a mass shooting a day.