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The most loved Italian President.
He was a Partisan, he joined the Italian resistance movement against the Nazi German occupiers and Mussolini's new regime. Arrested by the Nazi, he was sentenced to death, but then saved by a partisan raid. He then organized partisan war in North Italy and had a primary role in the Milan uprising of 25 April 1945, which led to the execution of Mussolini.
After the war, he was elected in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, becoming its president in 1968, then President of the Italy in 1978.
disasterfactory324
PlankTableGo
bUt I dOnT wAnT tHeM gEtTiNg My TaX dOlLaRs
stankginchfurbuger
Fighting nazis gave that generation a clarity we sorely lack. The fascists tide was stymied for decades because they didn't fuck around
eightyearplan
Better and worse ways to go about it. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/30/america-years-of-lead-political-violence-trump-election/
ElbowDeepInUserSub
You can do whatever you want! As long as it doesn't require money, time, or dignity.
rissel
Georgian activist Dzhugashvili said it best
NuclearButtPlugFromPlanetX
cOmMuNiSm!
relsky
I asked someone today what "financial freedom" meant. They said some stuff about having enough money to do extra things. Then I asked 1/
relsky
what the opposite was, and they didn't have a good answer. I suggested "wage slave," and they got pissed off.
friendsofsandwiches
we seem ot be edging closer and closer to that bad place every day.
c2zvgsVillain
As an American I’m free to starve free to live on the streets free to die of any disease of my choosing so if it’s free it’s for me
Jimthebutler
Hey. You are bleeding on my floor.
FuzzyWolfy329
“You have the right to complain, but so help me God if you try to change.”
copingcabana
Americans are nowhere near free. Prostitution, drinking (below 21), cannabis, cursing or nudity on tv or newspapers, all illegal (1/2)
copingcabana
in most of US; legal in other 1st world countries. Meanwhile, we're economic slaves to our jobs or risk homelessness or medical bankruptcy.
technicallycorrectbutnofunatparties
I mean, yes I would consider that man free. Freedom and security (financial security in this case) are different things. It's okay to...
technicallycorrectbutnofunatparties
...acknowledge this difference, but understand that both are important to quality of life.
naytorin
EatsBees
i used this at my new job to explain why i decided to apply. i am able, so i believe i have a moral obligation to help those who aren't able
TheWombatStrikesAgain
That sounds like survival of the fittest (=the best adapted) to me. What the edgelords believe in is survival of the strongest.
FuzzyWolfy329
I wouldn’t even say survival of the fittest. Creating significant wealth takes equal part chance and adaption. Most are born into it, too.
derJake
Best prisoner's dilemma strategy is initial cooperation with retaliation in betrayal, I think.
eraevous
Tit-for-tat, or two-tits-for-tat to cover errors. Best strategy in -repeated- prisoners dilemma.
derJake
That might have been the one I was trying to remember!
WhyDontYouMakeMe
Alenelvans
Freedom has two parts. Positive and negative. American are often obsessive in claiming their negative freedom, and forget about the positive
newtonsbucket
America has "stupid freedom".
Dungol
John stuart mills?
Alenelvans
He might’ve first described the concept but it’s very mainstream in political philosophy at this point.
ChainmailleAddict
I like to call it the difference between theoretical and practical freedom. I'll pass up the freedom to die preventably if it means I'm safe
Alenelvans
Tbh they’re both pretty practical. The right to healthcare and the right to free expression are both vitally important in my mind.
Baeloro
Born out of war and rebellion against an authoritarian dictatorship... concerned with not having rights stripped, you say?
Alenelvans
Positive rights are rights too
Baeloro
Yes. People usually live through their circumstances though, and it's not a matter of having the correct view on rights. At that point.
ImgursLibertarian
Classically it's discussed as positive and negative rights. Negative right: The right to not be attacked; the right to defend yourself...
ImgursLibertarian
the right to bear arms. Positive right: the right to be given a gun and ammunition. Sometimes societies have decided positive rights...
ImgursLibertarian
are to be given: Romans often received the spoils of war, The US provides legal defense, China promises everything as long as you don't...
ImgursLibertarian
"undermine the interests of the state." http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/constitution2019/201911/1f65146fb6104dd3a2793875d19b5b29.shtml
ImgursLibertarian
The US was founded on only having negative rights, except when the state imposed itself upon you, hence the right to legal defense when....
Alenelvans
Yes. The difference is in how they’re provided. Positive rights are granted by the states actions, negative rights by the states inaction.