• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    although I agree with you. any state of government system set to ensure those rights, can easily take them away.

    they shouldn’t, and they should lose they heads if they try. but I don’t think you can theoretically have “absolute inalienable rights”.

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      1 day ago

      There is no system of governance that can withstand a critical mass of the people operating it choosing not to do what they’re supposed to. It’s why ohio ignored its supreme court and constitution on gerrymandering and why Trump gets away with shit.

      The judiciary was slowly captured alongside the media because they were supposed to be the counterbalances to congress (who’s become afraid of their own shadows) and the presidency (a revolving door of business as usual centrists and caligula level lunatics)

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        IE, public solidarity is key. atomised people don’t care when they erode people’s rights because they don’t care about “those” people, “first they came for…”