• RandomMouse@slrpnk.net
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    Rights aren’t real. They’re granted by the collective. Turn on the collective, and they’ll turn on you. No magic system keeps your rights in place then. You can certainly choose to identify others as an enemy, treating them poorly and thinking they should die. That isn’t even uncommon.

    Now, do you have the infinite resources to make it happen? No. Do billionaires? Yes. That’s the problem.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      Rights aren’t real. They’re granted by the collective.

      They’re not granted by the collective in capitalist states, though. They’re granted by the ruling class, which is the minority capitalist class. And those happen to be the same people under discussion to face the guillotine.