@skeletor If you are the only one with the rights they are a privilege that can be revoked.
@skeletor most of it is fake anyways - 'rights' come and go depending on the jurisdiction; the key is to have some degree of fun and arbitrage on the fringes - rights are just societal norms and expectations like the southern border - we cared so much about the economy it may as well have not existed and guess who paid the price - poor american framilies
Without sacrifice, there are no rights, because there is no need for it, as the law is a reaction to unnecessary sacrifice.
So the best option is find a way without sacrifice.
More rights means more restrictions, which is not good at all.
@skeletor What about if I only care about my wrongs? What then, Mr. Skeletor!?
@skeletor there’s some privileged comments here about how rights are made up.
I can only get that we have our typical cis, het, white male saying this.
They should stay in their safe bubble and toot about something they understand like Antiques Roadshow.
@Rhedmtf @skeletor Days without white male cis nonsense: 0
Idiotism

Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new 'common sense'. Using the Greek word idios, meaning...

Pluto Press

@baslow @skeletor

"Idiot" is a #ableist term with roots in #eugenics.

@LevZadov @skeletor
No.The book documents its origins in Ancient Greek, referring to those people who refrained from public affairs to concentrate on more purely private concerns, a "civic deficiency" among the polis-minded. It came to connote a state of inadequate informedness, culminating in later drifting into meanings of mental insufficiency. The book is an attempt to revive the very earliest meaning.
@LevZadov @skeletor
...that earlier meaning is why we can use the root in such words as "idiom" and "idiosyncratic" and, medically, "idiopathy".
@LevZadov @skeletor
The book's use of "idiotism" provides a useful critique of the ideology of "possessive individualism" which underlies the field of economics, various forms of libertarianism, Randian Objectivism and the current hyper-individualism that is giving rise to deaths of despair, epidemics of loneliness, addiction, attentional disorders, parasociality displacing sociality, etc.

@baslow @skeletor

I doesn't matter what the word meant to ancient Greeks. The word means what it means to us today. We are not living in ancient Greece and that's a good thing because ancient Greece was a war loving, patriarchal, slave based economy that deserves our disgust, not our emulation.

@LevZadov @skeletor
If you believe the future will be won with such visceral responses (which deny the negotiability of collective meaning and simply dismiss the past instead of regarding it as a resource) then, I would maintain, you do not bring the necessary weapons to the conflict in which we are currently engaged.
I would prefer not to clamor for change by wielding rigidity.

@baslow @skeletor

(1.) Citing the thought processes of a bunch of dead, sexist, war loving, slavers as a justification of anything happening anywhere today *is* clamoring for change by wielding rigidity.

(2.) The past is to be learned from, not lived in.

@LevZadov @skeletor
This response confirms my impression that you are not ready to understand, let alone evaluate, what I am saying... or the means by which I arrive at my conclusions.
This argues that, as far as I am concerned, we are engaged in lobbing semiotic paintballs at each other rather than anything I would deem "discussion".
I bid you farewell

@baslow @skeletor

I do not allow ad hominem attacks in my timeline. Baslow is blocked.

@skeletor

". . . and then they came for me."

@skeletor I'm not gonna care until other people care about mine. In other words; if your activism doesn't include trans rights I don't care about your rights.

@skeletor hope the rainbow flag tribes are reading.. and comprehending.

But I won't get my hopes up too high. Just like betting on a losing horse.

@skeletor

Blacks & Indians in the USA...

@skeletor Skeletor deserves a nobel peace prize for this quote.

@skeletor

Yup. You want to keep your rights? Then help make sure EVERYONE has those rights. 'First they Came' by Pastor Niemoller isn't a lament, it's a goddamn WARNING.

@skeletor
I remember a saying, which is attributed to Mahatma Ghandi: The Ganges of rights springs from the Himalayas of duties.