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If everyone gets it, then yes. If only rich people get it, then no.
Everyone will be guaranteed the right to buy a mansion with their own money. There, equality accomplished.
Americans.
Basic respect.
Is this woke?
Listen, you commie scumbag. Unless you’re in debt for your pregnancy / heart attack / stroke, you’re a socialist pos and I’ll hunt you down with my AR-15.
Merica.
It’s kind of correct, though
Of course a government can grant privileges, but I don’t like the notion of positive rights. Of placing an obligation on others as being inherent. Because that would mean those rights aren’t inherent, in the natural state, you would be having those rights infringed by default.
in the natural state
Human society is pretty far removed from nature though. For example, are you against the right to own property ?
That’s fair, I am against the right to arbitrarily claim property, but to not steal someone else’s shelter isn’t exactly placing an obligation on others.
Where do you think every square inch of real estate came from?
I’m somewhere between John Locke and Henry George on land.
Am I just old, or is this format wrong for the meaning of this meme?
Even old people would know that format is fine
From what I remember, it was meant to restate the obvious for effect. This feels like highlighting an underlying attitude instead.
No it’s supposed to be someone identifying something obvious incorrectly. The original is “is this a bird” while he’s looking at a butterfly.
The meme comes from the idea that there are no butterflies in japan, so when they see one, they legit think it’s a bird of some sort.
It’s not exactly acurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_butterflies_of_Japan
