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
@kick even the major ones that don't seem to be very controversial, the middle-of-the-large-venn-diagram ones, like "don't torture people", "equal application of the law to everyone", "freedom of peaceful expression", et c.
there is of course a lot of debate at the edges; i'm not even talking about those. just the basics.
