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1. they've morphed the concepts of liberty, freedom, and rights to be entirely self-serving
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:28 PM
Aug 2024

without any shred of respect or responsibility to others or acceptance that other have rights as well.

once you see things through that lens, anyone else's exercise of their rights becomes tyranny and oppression to you.

these self-centered, arrogant jerks think that a sitcom starring a gay person who isn't being bashed every episode is an infringement on their right to never see gay people treated in a remotely positive, or even neutral, way.

seriously, they think the existence of abortion, the existence of trans people, the existence of atheists, every hearing even just a spanish accent, etc., are tyranny to their vision of a pure white, male-dominated, cis-straight-christian controlled world.


once you believe in an unworkable worldview where you're the only people entitled to any respect or rights, the real world become just a whole lot of oppression and tyranny.

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