• HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
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    No respect for the law from their side, why should they expect people to care when the law tries to protect them?

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      Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

      • Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
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        “Without double standards they wouldn’t have standards at all.”
        - Someone way smarter and more clever than I

        Edit: Markdown formatting woes

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        Exactly. And if the average joe could truly understand that, we’d be way better off than we are now.

        It’s never been left versus right. It’s left versus capitalism who use capital to manipulate the right into hating the left.