startling realizations i've had in the last few years:
a minority of human beings actually believe in human rights, and it's sort of a miracle that they are championed at all on earth, and is only due to tremendous amounts of hard work by visionary people over the last two centuries or so.
also, a combover, spray tan, fake-ass gold shit, a nice suit, and a trophy wife is still an effective power move against hundreds of millions of yokels
"Human rights" are a messy term that we use for many things. Is privacy a human right? I personally think so. Do most people? No. Is life a human right? I think so. Most people probably agree for the most part.
@kick see, that's a good example: the right to life. the United States has the death penalty, and people are regularly executed by the government there. in 2020. they also have a special network of no-trial-ever torture prisons (cia black sites), as well as concentration camps for child refugees where US government cops have raped thousands of children.
seems to me these are all pretty uncontroversial. and yet, here we are.
