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I think the benefits of going high speed rail now would outweigh the negatives of upgrading at a later point.

It doesn’t have to be this way

Copyright laws are a recent phenomenon and should have never been a thing imo. The only reason it’s there is not to “protect creators,” but to make sure upper classes extract as much wealth over the maximum amount of time possible.

Music piracy has showed that it’s got too many holes in it to be effective, and now AI is showing us its redundancy as it uses data to give better results.

it stifles creativity to the point it makes us inhuman. Hell, Chinese writers used to praise others if they used a line or two from other writers.

Whataboutism

Just want to drop this here because of how ridiculous these entertainment cartels can be:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/eu-commission-piracy-report

Piracy aides in creating sales.

Up to 3% more for movies in theaters: https://hbr.org/2020/10/the-digital-piracy-dilemma

Man-Spider

We are poor and our freedoms are exploited, but at least we’re free!

Is this really news?

So if I get locked out of a car, I’m suddenly worthy of making headlines? There are bigger things to draw attention to than this.

No we’ve evolved to cook our food, not necessarily kill.

I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say, are the democrats not friendly with ANY big businesses? Is the extreme right wing of US conservatives not motivated by money (Donald Trump is often thought of as a successful venture capitalist, the amount of money funneled out during his presidency, etc…)?

Russia is one of the most inequal countries in the world in terms of wealth distribution, and for decades now oligarchs in Russia have gone hand in hand with the state in eroding any form of democracy and exploiting what freedom those citizens do have.

So, can you really say democracy can exist with money?

I bake my own bread once a week, I can never go back now

Meme with a credible source? This is they way (and thank you)!

Redhat: Yes, but also we are liars.

Conservatism Capitalism has always been an ideology that’s opposed to progress, democracy and freedom.

There you go, I fixed that for you.

All political entities serve the needs of capital first and foremost in a capitalist system, people are only a secondary…if that.