I don’t understand what’s wrong with our electorate.

brain damage im pretty sure.

I don’t know what his next move is, but I have to think he’s feeling a bit desperate.

his only move is cutting spending (actually) raising taxes, and running a surplus. That and maybe dont be such a fucking dumbass.

most of these people arent media personalities, they've never had to deal with this before.

putin is still in power, so...

revolutions only come from suffering.

People need to suffer to the point they are willing to potentially lose it all, people have families, they have friends, they have careers and jobs, people need to physically care first.

For some reason nobody understands this today.

voiding all IP law would literally bankrupt the entire media industry, crashing tens if not hundreds of billions out of the industry practically overnight.

Why is it possible to sell copies of public domain books when we have libraries?

because somebody physically produces the book wdym?

btw just because something is in the public domain, doesn't mean that every variant attached to it is, just the one specifically defined under law, a book that is in the public domain, but also on the shelves of a retailer, might not be a public domain work at all. Because it's a different work entirely.

I'm not even sure you can prevent the production of a work, just because it's public domain, you just can't hold copyright on it, so you could theoretically print and sell a book in the public domain legally, as long as you don't declare that you own copyright.

IP law and copyright is really important. It protects people from companies, and companies from bad actors.

i mean, i hate IP law as well, i like stealing shit.

i dont always use it to insult others, and nothing would stop me from using the f slur with my friend group either, gay or not.

You could make the argument that it is offensive to use the word, but that's kind of the point. (not to any specific group of people though)

idk how they haven't choked on their own spit tbh.

it wasn't good, you just threw some shit in a bowl and went "ooh argument"

Is it acceptable for a white person to tell another white person they’re “acting like an [n-word]?” Yes or no.

again, i'm not saying that people are acting like retards, i'm calling them one. There's a contextual difference that you don't seem to understand.

Now if we're going to fix that argument for you, free of charge you would say something like "is it ok for a white person to call another white person the N word?" could go either way depending on the context. Heavily context dependent usage.

Yes. 🤦 Jfc, “asking me not to use a slur against disabled people is a slippery slope to asking me not to tell people to kill themselves.” Fucking, good!

how many times do i have to explain that im not using it against disabled people.

that's true, but i would prefer they be upfront about it. If you're advertising something, and i'm not getting it, that's not great advertising.

If you're telling me i get unlimited bandwidth on a 1gb connection, and you don't give me that exact thing in return, it's false advertising. Soft limit it if you want, just be honest about it. The solution here is a bandwidth limited plan, and one that isn't.

yeah and this is the comment section of the thread of a 4chan post.

It's not that deep bro.

To which I say that is not an excuse. People were anti-racist back then too, and people had been calling out police violence against people of color since the 19th century and the white supremacist origins of the modern american militarized police. Also we’re talking moreso 60 years of continual support for these institutions, not merely 20 years ago.

it's not an excuse, depending on what it was as well as the fact that things can change, someone may have had a negative view at a certain point, but that can change. Unless of course doing a single bad action is always constituted as a negative thing, which doesn't seem beneficial for society to me.

Yes, and liberalism has historically resisted fascist takeovers so well.

fascist governments are opportunistic by design, and liberal democracies don't necessarily have native defenses against them, it's one of the biggest challenges in a democracy.

Neoliberalism prioritizes the mass hoarding of wealth of the capitalist ruling class above everything else. Neoliberalism has been the dominant ideology of western electoral democracy since the time of Ronald Reagan. This is especially true of America and Great Britain. Neoliberalism does not create a functional government.

if you operate on your definition of neoliberalism sure, but i'm not a neoliberal. The irony could be that these problems are inherent to any capitalist society, arguably any society ever, because inflation is a bitch. The only trivial way to work against it is population increase, in which the US has stagnated heavily.

But the mere fact that you have phrased it as a “functional model of government” is absolutely indicative of your own ignorance as to what workers rights even are and what leftism is. There are many extent leftist nations today. Social Democracy is a leftist ideology, and I find it pretty unlikely that you view the Social Democracies of Scandinavia in a negative light.

yeah, and a lot of the existing left leaning governments are based on liberalism, even china to some degree has a significant amount of liberalism. It's just that they're mostly authoritarian. You can implement leftist ideologies in a liberal government. It's not hard or even impossible. Most of these places are already using some form of liberal government, that or authoritarian, which is less popular.

the USSR was really only successful during it's period of industrialization, past that they didn't advance much and really only coasted on oil until that started to crash and basically killed them. Stalin also had some, interesting ideas of leadership.

China is an authoritarian state, has been for a long time, mao was, arguably one of the worst leaders ever. Created a massive famine that killed millions just so he could make a single nuclear bomb.

I'm not particularly familiar with the rest, so i can't really comment. I guess you could argue that the US has done bad things, but so has basically every super power. It's not really anything new. The primary thing is that the US still exists, china also does, but they're also having domestic issues as well.

i almost never delete things i post on the internet, i'm a firm believer in sillyposting because the nothing is sacred.

IDK, call it a character badge or whatever you want. It's just how i am.

bro it's lemmy, i'm not the government, it's just my opinion.