#Liberty
Oh, the sublime beauty of software freedom! It is a symphony of liberty, an aria of empowerment, a sonata of self-determination. It empowers us to compute without constraint. Let's embrace this virtuous melody, for in its harmony we find true technological freedom. #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware #GNU #Liberty
I’m confused about #AynRandInstitute's cooperation with #StudentsForLiberty on this event: http://evt.to/ahaeasuiw
The latter "embraces the diversity of justifications for #liberty and encourages debate and discourse on the differing philosophies that underlie liberty.“ https://studentsforliberty.org/pillars/
Have we drifted from #AynRand‘s repudiation of #libertarianism (https://courses.aynrand.org/lexicon/libertarians/) and Leonard Peikoff’s “Fact and Value”? https://peikoff.com/essays_and_articles/fact-and-value/
Does #ARI now tolerate evil ideas?
A quotation from Lincoln, Abraham:
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except Negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2555/
Judge uses Florida legislators' comments against them in a scathing rebuke of their bigotry against trans people in enjoining fascist legislation.
#law #florida #uspol #transrights #humanrights #courts #fascism #GOP #liberty #freedom #1A #freedomofexpression #constitution
https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/florida-judge-blocks-trans-ban-5
Sons of Israel and the Second Sons of Israel are the sons and daughters of Israelites that remain true to their faith and keep Christ within their heart. They transcend family. They transcend religion. They transcend boundaries. And once redeemed they shall also transcend time and space.
#faith #freedom #life #liberty #apocalypse #israel #geopolitics
https://www.chirho.consulting/blog/sons-and-second-sons-of-israel
We don't just offer #state #rings, have a special #year you want to immortalize? Pick up our #Liberty #ring. On #sale this week! https://www.etsy.com/berkshirebowls/listing/1101114241 #libertyring #yearring #handmade #handmadejewelry #thumbring #statementring #quarter #coinring #quarterring #etsy #etsyseller #etsyshop #etsyfinds #handmadegifts
The idea of afterlife is a myth. So too is the idea of reincarnation. Both concepts trace to Satan himself, with the first being an embellishment by Lucifer upon reincarnation.
#faith #freedom #life #liberty #apocalypse
https://medium.com/@chi_rho_consulting/reincarnation-and-an-afterlife-are-both-lies-52c157b76683
My poem "Venture"
for an 8-line poetry challenge.
Text link: https://allpoetry.com/poem/17184806-Venture-by-Robert-J.-Tiess
#poems #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #free #freedom #liberty #openminded #thoughts #ideas #newthinking #thinking #freeyourmind #unlimited #metaphors
A quotation from O'Rourke, P. J.:
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orourke-pj/3032/
#quote #quotes #quotation #accountability #autonomy #consequences #duty #freedom #humanrights #liberty #responsibility
#Trans, #queer #activists to #Marriott: Keep ‘#Moms for #Liberty’ out
https://www.workers.org/2023/05/71125/
Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period—in print & online via Project MUSE
#Scottish #literature #imperialism #19thcentury #20thcentury #revolution #emancipation #equality #liberty
17/18
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/empires-and-revolutions/
If there would be anyone interested in a "truthful" #journalism, there would be no usage of the last metaphysical* word: "#Freedom / #Liberty", like in German meaning of #Freiheit. (Except in the direct physical meaning)
*According my philosophy professor
The “Moms for Liberty book-challenge subcommittee” is the most ironically named group in the world.
#Christianity is the original #CancelCulture.
#Bans #Censorship #Freedom and #liberty
Cannabis and cocaine are both GMO's with unholy roots. Users souls literally conjoin when using these drugs. The drugs become gateways to demonic possession, and captured souls are never set free. These captured souls attempt to corrupt those they encounter, including friends, loved ones, and relatives. This is especially true with those they share drugs with recreationally.
#life #liberty #faith #freedom #drugs #cocaine #cannabis #cbd
Exodus 20:3-17 lists out ten of Christ’s commands of the sons and second sons of Israel. They include a reminder that Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning of the Universe and the end.
There is another command Christ issued to His apostles and to their disciples: to “Love with all your heart and hate what is evil.” (Romans 12:9) This command is the epitome of a well-lived Christian life.
#faith #freedom #life #liberty #apocalypse
https://www.chirho.consulting/blog/there-are-eleven-commandments-not-ten
رسالة لمن لا زال عنده ادنى افتتان بهم!
As for mocking our Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), they have "freedom of expression" and it is placed in their curricula..
A message for those who still have the slightest infatuation with them!
#فرنسا #الإسلام #الحرية
#French #liberty #Islam
The power to control our computing with free software, to shape it according to our own needs and desires, is essential for a fair and just society. Let's defend it with all our might. #liberty #ethics #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware
ACLU sues a school district for violating a trans girl's First Amendment and civil rights.
#trans #aclu #firstamendment #transrights #civilrights #mississippi #law #constitution #freedom #liberty
Oh I see #capitalism is trending right now, hell yeah let's goooo
https://mises.org/library/what-capitalism-really-means
B.C. Lions release nine, including Liberty standout Kevin Shaa
Just as nations crown their despots in their periods of weakness, so human nature in its periods of weakness craves for despots, more than it ever craved for liberty. It is a foolish feeling, and, perhaps an immoral one, but it has one quality which may slightly interest us, it is absolutely universal:
-GK Chesterton
"Sentimental Literature" #Despot #Dictator #Authoritarian #Weakness #Liberty #Immoral #Feeling #Sentiment #GKChesterton #Quotes http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/Spice_Of_Life.html#fiction
"It's time to choose. It's time to resist the ideological extortion of the Woke mobsters, to stand up for the right to think differently. Because if we don't, we risk waking up one day to a world where thinking is a crime and conformity, the only law."
Florida bans nurse practitioners from providing transgender health care cutting off care for 80% of trans adults.
https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/trans-patients-being-dropped-as-florida
#trans #transgender #florida #desantis #fascism #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #healthcare #medicine #bans #gop #freedom #liberty #autonomy
Eurovision 2023 at it’s BEST!
Stand with the #Ukraine 🫶🫶🫶
#ESC23 #Eurovision #StandWithUkraine #Liverpool #Europe #Europeunited #United #Peace #Freedom #Liberty #Democracy #Germany #German #EU #Deutschland #War
Yes, the arrests may end up being the spur that many needed to support theses causes... I've supported #Liberty for years but (now) cannot quite remember which outrage spurred me to set upon DD, but if I hadn't already I would have done this weekend.
Graham Smith, the (arrested) Chief Executive of #Republic:
“There is no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK,...I have been told many times the monarch is there to defend our freedoms. Now our freedoms are under attack in his name.”
While Martha Spurrier from #Liberty, sees a 'concerted attack' on #civilliberties:
[The Police are] 'laying the groundwork for trying to shut down that dissent swiftly and effectively'.
Welcome to the reign of #CharlesIII - freedom for him but not you!
Welcome to totalitarian britain, where the police say one thing and do another. It’s not surprising the public have lost faith in all ´public servants’ given the lies being told. Police accused of ‘alarming’ attack on protest rights after anti-monarchist leader arrested https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-leading-anti-monarchy-group-arrested-at-coronation-protest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #peacefulprotest #totalitarianbritain #liberty
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Mill makes the case that individual liberties should be as great as possible up until the point where they infringe on other people's liberties. He readily admits that defining exactly where the line is is a difficult task, and ultimately says very little of value except when providing concrete examples. When he does provide his personal opinion, however, it is usually fairly reasonable and does not over simplify things.
He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used. The faculty is a called into no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do it, no more than by believing a thing only because others believe it.
–On Liberty
#Books #Quotes #Culture #Custom #Tradition #Choice #Liberty #Freedom
‘Chilling’ police crackdown of anti-monarchy protests during King’s coronation ‘deeply disturbing’, MPs say
#AntiMonarchy
#Protests
#ProtestBans
#Coronation
#MPs
#Police
#Labour
#Sultana
#NotMyKing
#Osborne
#Bryne
#MET
#PublicOrderBill
#Republic
#Liberty
#HumanRightsWatch
#HomeOffice
https://inews.co.uk/news/chilling-police-crackdown-anti-monarchy-protests-kings-coronation-disturbing-2323846?ITO=msn
Anti-monarchy campaigners to face ‘human rights nightmare’ if they protest the coronation | Morning Star
#ProtestBans
#HumanRights
#AntiMonarchy
#Monarchy
#Coronation
#Liberty
#MET
#Windsor
#ThamesValleyPolice
#Burgon
#Sheffield
#DogAndPartridgePub
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/anti-monarchy-campaigners-to-face-human-rights-nightmare-if-they-protest-the-coronation
Florida is going to use it's anti-trans laws to silence political opponents and intellectuals.
Speak out against the Mouse-hater and CPS takes your kid to anti-trans conversion prison for re-education because of an anonymous tip.
Keep quiet and nobody gets their kids taken away, says Florida.
Same goes for your business.
#Florida #antitrans #fascism #DeSantis #GOP #trans #transgender #democracy #civilrights #transrights #disney #freedom #liberty
"Over the past four years, I have closely monitored the rise of anti-trans legislation, and it seems the world is getting smaller for transgender individuals. The spaces where we can exist without restrictions are dwindling, as governments in the United States and around the globe implement policies aimed at excluding us from daily life."
https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/with-floridas-trans-bathroom-ban
#trans #transgender #transmisogyny #patriarchy #apartheid #gop #florida #transphobia #civilrights #transrights #liberty #freedom
The people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number, and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power. The limitation, therefore, of the power of government over individuals, loses none of its importance when the holders of power are regularly accountable to the community, that is, to the strongest party therein.
–On Liberty by John Stewart Mill
Oregon House passes mandatory coverage for trans healthcare care and abortion.
#transjoy #trans #transgender #law #oregon #orleg #freedom #liberty #democracy
I invite you to read my poem
"Contrapuntal,"
something I submitted for a 26-word poetry challenge.
I hope you enjoy it.
Poem text link
https://allpoetry.com/poem/17145491-Contrapuntal-by-Robert-J.-Tiess
#poems #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #poets #birds #nature #tyranny #liberty #freedom #death #life #metaphors
‘the government are using a statutory instrument to bring in draconian measures, that the House of Lords threw out, once again evading scrutiny and accountability’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/02/anti-monarchists-receive-intimidatory-home-office-letter-on-new-protest-laws-coronation #liberty #protest #UKPolitics
"The ACLU is tracking 452 anti-LGBTQ bills in the U.S. this legislative session. Now, of those 452, 118 are trans healthcare bills. ... We’re experiencing an unprecedented surge in attacks on trans people in particular, and trans kids, most specifically."
https://www.aclu.org/podcast/why-and-how-trans-hate-is-spreading
#aclu #trans #transgender #transphobia #uspol #fascism #misogyny #patriarchy #christiannationalism #law #action #fightback #liberty #freedom #democracy
There’s not a lot of coherent ideologies anymore.
A whole bunch of institutions, parties, and people have been reduced to vibes, memes, and performance art.
Being a heretical moderate might be the way forward:
https://areomagazine.com/2021/06/14/why-i-am-a-radical-moderate/
#radicalmoderate #vibes #memes #performanceart #humanism #modernism #postmodernism #socialjustice #environmental #ethnocentrism #racism #sexism #religion #myth #inequality #identitypolitics #individuality #liberty #Enlightenment #integraltheory
"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down."
Frederick Douglass
Let's talk about the 2 'justice' systems in this country plz
Let's talk about how anything that resembles #liberty & #justice in the USA is a result of the bloody struggle of #Black folks
@amwenglish
#abolition #GoodFriday
https://youtu.be/PTmjwGEQTeA
This one has been flying around my #Facebook friends list. In and of itself, it’s true. I have no argument with what it says. But there’s a lot it’s not saying, and I can’t help but feel like it’s designed to disparage the #15minuteCity concept by that omission.
First, the concept itself. The idea of the 15-minute city (“#15mC”) is pretty simple: everything you need for your daily life should be within 15 minutes’ #walk. Some definitions have “walk or #bicycle ride,” but I think that drastically weakens the concept.
In other words, a healthy, able-bodied adult should be able to get to all the usual destinations in no more than a quarter of an hour, on foot. I would add to this that #children, the #elderly, and people of all ages with #disabilities should also be able to get where they’re going via accessible #public #transit, in the same amount of time.
All the usual destinations. Which yes, means #grocery #stores, #restaurants, #movie #theaters, etc.—for people who #work there as well as the patrons. And every other kind of #workplace too. Of course you don’t have to work or eat or shop close to home. But the option needs to be there, and the work has to be able to pay for all the rest.
That’s always been part of the concept. If the work criterion is not met, you don’t have a 15mC; you have a theme park, like the post says. Fair enough.
Yes, and? If you have a #house without a roof, you don’t have a house, you have a collection of walls. If you have a plate without #food on it, you don’t have a meal, you have #hunger. If you have a #legislature that can arbitrarily kick out its members for voicing their opinions, you don’t have #liberty, you have #tyranny. Everyone understands this.
So if we agree that the 15mC is a good idea—I certainly think it is—then let’s try to make it happen. This kind of sniping strikes me as less a valid critique and more an attempt to make the whole idea sound impossible.
Maybe that’s not the intent, but it’s sure how it comes across. Yeah … don’t do that.
Oliver Willis states unambiguously,
"Efforts to attack transgender rights, through policies like genital inspections of young children, spying on drag shows and outlawing drag performances — ideas backed by the Republican Party and the conservative movement — are utterly un-American and unpatriotic. They are tyranny.
Support transgender equality. And be a REAL American."
#trans #liberty #tyranny #democracy
https://oliverwillis.substack.com/p/real-americans-support-trans-rights
Hahaha, WHAT? So get this
#Apple found a new thing to pair to the motherboard: sleep sensors.
FUCKING. MAGNETS. PAIRED TO THE MOTHERBOARD.
“#Liberty works automatically. Tyranny ever has to bolster itself up with elaborate machinery which is always getting out of order and producing the most unlooked for and grotesque results.”
~Francis Dashwood Tandy
Thinking of #abortion and #privacy and how, at a very fundamental level, the enforcement and invasions by some state govs (and the data access by private corps to help them do it) shows that “privacy” is not quite “I have nothing (embarrassing?) to hide” but rather is at the core about #autonomy and #liberty, particularly in the face of injustice and oppression. #law #CivilRights #HumanRights
We talk plenty about #liberty and #equality, but who will champion #community?
I believe neglecting this political and cultural virtue is central to why we live in such an atomized age.
In short, a thick sense of community has been in decline for many of us during the past half-century plus, and a big part of that has to do with how we’ve come to treat the concept of community so abstractly.
#community #communitarianism #localism #politicalphilosophy #appalachia https://commonappalachian.substack.com/p/liberty-equality-andcommunity-in
Win by #Liberty against #CPS: Joint enterprise prosecutions to be monitored for racial bias says Simon Hattenstone in the Guardian Thu 16 Feb 2023
https://theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/16/joint-enterprise-prosecutions-to-be-monitored-for-racial-bias
Here @jbouie writes about the "sweeping and ferocious" attack on the rights and dignity of transgender people (and, by extension, others) in the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/opinion/trump-desantis-transgender-rights.html
#Dignity #Rights #Freedom #Equality #Liberty #Trans #LGBTQ #BodilyAutonomy #America #USPol #Politics
@jbouie writes about the "sweeping and ferocious" attack on the rights and dignity of transgender people in the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/opinion/trump-desantis-transgender-rights.html
#Dignity #Rights #Freedom #Equality #Liberty #Trans #LGBTQ #BodilyAutonomy #America #USPol #Politics #NYTimes #JamelleBouie
@rbreich
WHY DO WE EVEN TRUST OUR HEALTHCARE WITH THESE "PRIVATE COMPANIES"????
UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IS A *RIGHT*!!
FIGHT THE OLIGARCHIC SYSTEM!!! REBEL AGAINST THE "CEO"S AND "DIRECTORS".
COUP THIS BLATANT VIOLATION OF HUMAN LIBERTIES! ESTABLISH CONSTITUTIONAL UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE FOR ALL! NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES TO IMPLEMENT!!
HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
#health #healthcare #medicare #medicaid #universalhealthcare #humanrights #liberty
"I've Been To The Mountaintop" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This powerful speech he gave the day before his assassination. Its relevance was important then and it's even more so today.
#MartinLutherKingJrDay
#MartinLutherKing #speech
#equality #justice #liberty
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
#MartinLutherKingJrDay
#MartinLutherKing
#civilrightsmovement
#civilrights #leader #history
#equality #justice #liberty
@w7voa Why the hell are rogue dictatorships challenging the rules-based order, they in fact... can't live & prosper without?
#UnitedNations #HumanRights #Sanctions #Democracy #RuleOfThePeople #Freedom #Liberty #RogueStates
2. President Zelenskyy delivers historic speech to our US congress 🇺🇦🇺🇸
US aid to Ukraine is not charity but investment in global security.
“Ukraine is alive and kicking”
At the end of the speech, Zelensky handed over the Ukrainian flag from #Bakhmut defenders, who are in a moment by moment fight for their lives, to the US Congress 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏻
Got in a back-and-forth with a libertarian. Oops.
Apparently laws and democracy are slavery. Taxes are theft enforced with violence. All that usual nonsense.
Roads should all be private. Poor people shouldn't use them if they can't pay.
Also poor people "freely sell their labor" or starve to death (freely?) but can't get to work on private roads. But employers will provide shuttle buses to pick them up.
There is no "social contract' if you don't actually sign it.
#TIL that Thomas #Jefferson lifted the phrase “pursuit of happiness” from a book by Henry Home (1751) for his list of “unalienable #Rights” in the Declaration of Independence: “Life, #Liberty and the pursuit of #Happiness.”
What I did not know, and what should be taught to every schoolchild in the #USA, is that the phrase in the original source was “an equal pursuit of the happiness of all.”
Those two little words “of all” make a world of difference.
Last we go out w/a bang! Henrik Skaug Sætra takes no prisoners in this riveting talk @ #InstituteH21 on the threat of #tech to #liberty. The points here are extremely important, not just those in tech or #government. I take some issue with the magnitude of concerns about #nudging, or centering #algorithms as the cause of divergence rather than the fracturing of the #media landscape, but I don't think this greatly weakens the overall discussion. Highly recommend
I'm a blue dot in a red state, looking for a better virtual home than Twitter.
Join me & #VoteBlue!
I ♥️
#reading
#dogs
#justice
#equality
#solidarity
#liberty
#coffee
#cooking
#romancebooks
I'm a blue dot in a red state, looking for a better virtual home than Twitter.
Join me & #VoteBlue!
I ♥️
#reading
#dogs
#justice
#equality
#solidarity
#liberty
#coffee
#cooking
#romancebooks
#Introduction, Hello Mastodon, I’m a newly minted 65 yr old. Didn’t go to college, went to work. Thirty years in the credit and collections industry, fifteen for law firms. I’m a husband, step-dad & the grandpa of 2 and an uncle of 8. I enjoy good beer, music & love to grill out. #Democrat #Liberal Believer in #liberty & #justice for ALL. #DefendDemocracy
Time for an #Introduction.
I’m a #law #professor, advocate, and #author. My nonfiction books include BIG DIRTY MONEY (Viking 2020) about #whitecollarcrime and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES (Yale Press 2014) about the #globalfinancialcrisis of 2008. I focus on #followthemoney matters— promoting #transparency and opposing #corruption.
I ♥️
#dogs
#coffee
#prufrock
#justice
#equality
#solidarity
#liberty
#reading
#shakespeare
#ToniMorrison
#VirginiaWoolf
#GeorgeEliot
#RalphEllison
Strong restriction of movement, commerce, open questioning, and increased surveillance took the world by storm. A deranged mentality commonly reserved for places where the most tyrannical hierarchies rule became ordinary worldwide. Instead of reading the novel 1984 as a warning, rulers are reading it as an instruction manual.
We can find solutions in the Satoshi Principles