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4 août 1789 – 4 août 2025: abolissons les privilèges!

Lors de la nuit du 4 août 1789, l’Assemblée nationale constituante votait la suppression des #privilèges féodaux. En ce 4 août 2025, nous appelons à abolir les privilèges fiscaux des ultra-riches et des entreprises multinationales!

✒️ Par @Attac | En accès libre › blogs.mediapart.fr/attac/blog/

A quotation from George Carlin

Folks, I hate to spoil your fun, but — there’s no such thing as rights. Okay? They’re imaginary. We made ’em up. […] Now, if you think you do have rights, one last assignment for you. Next time you’re at the computer, get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia I want you to type in “Japanese-American 1942,” and you’ll find all about your precious fucking rights, okay? […] Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took ’em away. And rights aren’t “rights” if someone can take ’em away — they’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a Bill of Temporary Privileges. And if you read the news, even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Show (2008-03-01), It’s Bad for Ya, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California (HBO)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlin-george/54395/

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Guynn: The idea is that much of the material the defendants are seeking to withhold is a residual of the material that has to be withheld under other #privileges (attorney client, work product, etc). Plaintiffs aren't challenging those privileges right now....

#Xinis: If I get to prong 2 & you show that the danger is real, not vague....how does necessity fall into this?

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@lhgmk2
What do you mean 'primary demographic'?
I confront almost daily people behaving like I'm a fifth class citizen.
From medical specialists to colleagues and even acknowledged 'progressive' folks; whenever facing me, many clearly behave as they are part of the 'primary demographic' group.
Such attitudes to me reflects some form of nazism.
While most of the rest often assume what I need, wish, think or feel without even asking me.
So even-though I know that there are probably one or two snitches or fascists in the building, I'm glad to be back home.

#ignorance #fascism #primarydemographic vs #thirdclasscitizens #classism #privileges #personalexperience #society #misanthropy from #socialostracism

#Privileges #Move
At the beginning of the pandemic i lost the "job of my live" in musicbiz and had to move to a *much* smaller flat.
Am currently sorting/throwing out most of old stuff out the crammed basement due to a time out.
Just noticed it slowly changed to something like,
reducing stuff to be able to move in one go(van) "out of here" far away as possible - a prepper mindset.🤨 😬 🤔
The privilege?
Still have time/ability to do so. Am not a (immediate) target of any repression - yet.
Scared.

#privileges

-waking up in rental flat i can afford (still)
- no pain (health ok so far)
- heating works
- power outtage not to fear
- shower with clean hot water (whenever i want)
- no war zone here
- food in the fridge (easy to refill from supermarket)
- stepping out with no fear for myself bc not read as member of a "minority" (Am white, elder male, don't look foreign)

- that peace (relatively/locally spoken) before "the storm"
🖖 ✊

#election #fascism #usa #climatechange !

𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻: 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗸 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘄𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝘀

Paris Hilton vindt het belangrijk haar kinderen bij te brengen dat zij in een bevoorrechte positie opgroeien en bepaalde privileges hebben. "En dat je ook iets terug moet doen voor mensen in nood", vertelde de 43-jarige Hilton-erfgename tegen het Amerikaanse Extra.

rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/54917

RTL Boulevard · Paris Hilton: belangrijk kinderen bewust te maken van privilegesParis Hilton vindt het belangrijk haar kinderen bij te brengen dat zij in een bevoorrechte positie opgroeien en bepaalde privileges hebben. "En dat je ook iets terug moet doen voor mensen in nood", vertelde de 43-jarige Hilton-erfgename tegen het Amerikaanse Extra.

« Il existe deux ensembles de principes. Les principes de pouvoir et de privilège et les principes de vérité et de justice.
Si vous courez après le pouvoir et les privilèges, ce sera toujours au détriment de la vérité et de la justice »
- Noam Chomsky -

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"Ainsi, qu'est ce que le tiers ? Tout, mais un tout entravé et opprimé. Que serait-il sans l'ordre privilégié ? Tout, mais un tout libre et florissant.
Rien ne peut aller sans lui, tout irait infiniment mieux sans les autres. Il ne suffit pas d'avoir montré que les privilégiés, loin d'être utiles à la nation, ne peuvent que l'affaiblir et lui nuire, il faut prouver encore que l'ordre noble n'entre point dans l'organisation sociale ; qu'il peut bien être une charge pour la nation, mais qui ne saurait en faire une partie."

— Emmanuel-Joseph #Sieyès dans sa brochure de janvier 1789 : "Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État ?"

@histoire 🧶