If they are willing to defend facism and defend a dictator…then what’s the problem?
At some point your “I’m just doing my job” becomes, “I support an American dictatorship.”. Do you not have morals? Your “job” has now become antithetical to the American Democratic Ethos - you are now a de facto traitor to your country. Last I checked, traitors are an enemy of the state.
…so again, what’s the problem?
Yes Mr. Bossman, I would love to work at your company. I have aspired to be a <insert low-level job title here> since I was a small child. I would do anything to help out the company. My only desire is to help the business.
This post saved my life. 💕💕💕
I agree that most creators don’t become wealthy, and yes, there’s plenty of abuse and inequality in how IP laws are applied. But removing those laws wouldn’t solve that - it would just give even more power to the entities with the most money, reach, and legal muscle.
Without IP protections, smaller inventors and musicians wouldn’t even have the option to negotiate or earn anything off their work. A major label or corporation could just take it, polish it, and release it as their own without any consequences.
So while the system isn’t perfect, saying it “only exists to make the rich richer” misses the point. The alternative isn’t more equity, it’s no recourse at all for the little guy.
To keep it short and simple, it was more organic back then. Today, it’s more of a “designer” experience. You can still have a hell of a lot of fun, but it just feels less natural.
This is a terrible take. Sure. There are issues with the system, but these laws protect smaller musicians and inventors from having their ideas stolen and profited upon by larger players.
Without patent laws, there’s no reason to ever “buyout” a design from an inventor, or for smaller songwriters to ever get paid again. A large company or musician could essentially steal your work and make money off of it, and you would get nothing for all of the time and effort that you put into it.
It’s worth noting that Burning Man from 15 years ago is not the same Burning Man today and it’s tragic.
On one hand, I enjoy the schadenfreude of companies getting their just reward for enabling this bullshit, but in the other, I really mourn for all of those that are going to suffer from this. Our country is actively shooting itself in the foot, and blaming it on DEI.
Because we all know STEM fields aren’t already white-male dominated. Making it more hostile for women and minorities will reduce the amount of people that even want to get into the field, thus reducing actual talent. Studies also show that diverse groups tend to problem-solve better than homogeneous ones as they tend to consider a wider array of possibilities and avoid groupthink.
Fuck this frail white-ego bullshit.
On one hand…why? They aren’t exactly eschewing the same ideals as Disney.
On the other hand, maybe this helps to push Progressivism in the Middle East a bit more.
There was a shocking number of Section 8 people that voted for Trump based on the idea that he gave them money before, he’ll do it again. More than anything any other President has done for them.
Yeah, people tend to vote on rather shallow feelings rather than actual facts. This will cause some of these people to have very unhappy feelings about voting Republican in the future.
I had to do this with my childhood best friend…it sucks. Sorry dude.
You’ll be happier in the long run. I found I was hanging out with them for nostalgia’s sake, and I was exhausted with constantly having to “debate” them on issues.
It’s absolutely gonna feel like a 100 years. FML…
Learning how to engage and socialize with people of both sexes is a necessary skill. As long as your not being a toxic mess in front of them, you’re fine.
I’m like 95% sure that’s the plan.
I had no idea. I’ll have to look into that. Thanks!
What do you mean saved it? As in just posted it on YouTube?
Never in a million years did I think I would be wishing that Yemen is successful in its fight against the Israeli Genocidal Government.
The power of propaganda and lies. Hell, look at Pam Bondi over the past couple of days. They seized 22 million fentanyl pills, and every week she adds a zero to the number of lives saved. It’s worth noting that there’s about 80,000 OD’s a year. But her first claim was that 22 million American lives were saved. Her second claim a week later was 119 million lives. Her latest claim a couple of days ago…are you ready? 258 million Ameican lives. Yes. Trump and Co. have single-handedly saved 2/3rds of the entire US population.
MAGA exists in a world of pure fiction. They don’t have the intelligence to take a step back a go, “That doesn’t make any sense.” Their entire worldview is whatever soundbite was the last one on the TV.
We are ruled by a nation of absolute morons… it’s embarrassing.
Sure. But this isn’t a bump stock. It’s a forced reset trigger that was just unbanned… Which is insane. It essentially converts semi automatic weapons to automatic weapons.