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  • If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

    If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

    They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

    18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights






















  • MrSmiley@lemmy.zipOPtoWikipedia@lemmy.worldTurtles all the way down
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    Reality is a process forever stream through time and space, patterns emerge, systems form, change, collapse. New processes, new systems, solar systems spiral, evolutionary processes flow. Society as a system, civilization as a process. More processes, more systems, processes within systems, systems within processes. Beyond beginning and end, universe and speck…

    IT’S TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN!!!















  • You should probably explain what you mean, because I already stated that ideological fantasy does not determine objective reality.

    That is the exact opposite of “idealism” you dolt.

    It was explicitly outlined in Marx’s writing. The dictatorship of the proletariat. As Žižek wrote in The Sublime Object of Ideology, “ideological fantasy creates social reality.” However, that social reality does not determine objective reality, merely how we interact with it. The Marxist position of achieving class consciousness is a falsehood, it is a presupposition that ignores human nature. There is no deeper philosophical meaning, the surface is the truth, the masses are an inertial force, an object not a subject. In a deterministic universe, all we have to do is look at past results to predict future outcomes.

    A quote from my copy of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, “What is universally valid is also universally effective; what ought to be, in fact also is, and what ought to be without [actually] being, has no truth.”