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The overarching trend I see recently is that your rights, as an individual citizen, simply do not matter. They will be brushed away by any agenda that has a sem
by Tycho 5y ago
The overarching trend I see recently is that your rights, as an individual citizen, simply do not matter. They will be brushed away by any agenda that has a semblance of globalist right-think.
Your right to privacy, in the face of government agencies executing their mission, does not matter.
Your right to free movement, in the face of a flu that overburdens the hospital system, does not matter.
Your right to free speech, in the face of the need to eliminate outsider politicians, does not matter.
Your right to election security, in the face of the establishment getting their preferred candidate, does not matter.
Your right to raise your children with traditional values, in the face of social engineering guidelines, does not matter.
Your right to bodily autonomy, in the face of globally coordinated medical interventionism, does not matter.
Your right to closed borders, in the face of foreign policy expediency, does not matter.
Your right to eat what you want, in the face of “climate change” activism, will not matter.
Your preferences are simply not safeguarded by your rights, which can be overruled by the whim of “experts.” If you want to imagine how any particular future scenario unfolds, just ask yourself whether your rights would be an inconvenience to the plans of, say, Bill Gates. As a sort of stand-in for the general careerpol/NGO/billionaire/Harvard class running things.
(and most of the media and many of the public intelligentsia merrily support this)
- czzr 5y agoThe world is full of trade-offs, no rights are absolute.
- mindslight 5y agoYour argument is completely undermined by being full of references to enthusiastic ignorance. Covid was a massive IQ test, which many failed by following con men who told them to take the easy path, rather than the path of self responsibility. Rather than insisting that doubling down on bad decisions is somehow defending your "rights", you need to come to terms with how you were led so far astray in the first place. Furthermore, "right to closed borders" ? You previously invoked "free movement" yet there is also a right to closed borders? It appears you've just cloaked the same tired red team talking points in the language of freedom. Please, as a libertarian, stop trying to use freedom to justify what is a highly authoritarian movement. You're doing freedom no favors.
- Tycho 5y agoYes this is generally what being a citizen means, you can move about freely within your nation’s territory, and the territory is protected. Lack of territorial integrity is contrary to the principle of citizenship. Otherwise you just become something else - subjects of the emperor perhaps.
- captainredbeard 5y ago> Furthermore, "right to closed borders" ? You previously invoked "free movement" yet there is also a right to closed borders? These are not in conflict. Freedom of movement WITHIN YOUR COUNTRY is not the same thing as open borders, which will dilute and destroy a culture.
- captainredbeard 5y ago> Covid was a massive IQ test Compliance with the COVID response is more a indicator of trust in public institutions than it is an IQ test. You could argue noticing the untrustworthy behaviors and picking upon on that trend is an indication of learning quickly...
- mindslight 5y agoMask wearing in particular requires no trust in public institutions, just basic reasoning about airborne particles. If that's too technical for some, it has also been shown in every single movie about pandemics. The sheer number of people still rejecting this straightforward mitigation indicates that their bad decisions have little to do with distrusting institutions. Rather the problem is their trusting malevolent leaders who have been misleading them. As for "closed borders", I've never seen this referenced as a natural "right". Yet here it is dressed up as one, even though it is ultimately a collectivist action rather than an individual ability. You can of course still argue the benefits of closed borders, and five years ago I would have been sympathetic (the enthusiastic ignorance movement has since burned my assumption of their good faith). It's just specious to call it a "right".
- captainredbeard 5y ago
- only_as_i_fall 5y agoThis is gish gallop. Mixing together a bunch of weak arguments does not create a strong argument.