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Sure, no objections there

So, to condense the article:

Opinion:

Lol

A record of records

Oh no. I guess the only reasonable response is to bomb another children’s hospital.

The Guardian has dropped the ball a bunch of times.

A non-name media org is less likely to be a target for rich fucks who want to pay to push their agenda through a big, recognizable, reputable source.

The bigger the organisation, the greater the chances it will be corrupted, in ways big and small, by rich fucks.

Absolutely. Lovable. Still a cop.

I see. Well, if I take what you’re saying as fully correct, then it sounds like communism compared to anarchism, is just “a different path for how we reach the same utopia”.

And this different path passes through more authority (quantity and quality), through the existence and emphasis of the state.

How much authority, is probably what makes the spectrum of Anarchy to Stalin-Lenin.

And well… As an anarchist, deafboy’s comment might be polemic, but I get it. Any authority that can, will get corrupted.

Your astroturfing reads so strongly like sarcasm I almost upvoted.

I honestly thought “There’s no way anyone, paid or brainwashed, would post such a thing and mean it”.

What makes this thing you’re describing, not anarchism?

I think you’re thinking of anarchocommunism specifically. Which is “not all communism”™.

State-based communism is a thing, that many people usually called tankies by others, do believe in.

The political blockading 5 years ago was sobering news.

This is watching a really, really, really big train crash, after knowing for minutes that the driver was accelerating on purpose.

This was predicted and expected.

A “truly small” creator, would get , I dunno, let’s say 5% of Disney’s marketed sales, after being stolen from, from being known as the guy Disney stole from. Which would be enormously more than if he only had his “truly small” marketing.

A more successful and known creator, who would market himself more broadly on his own, would not be easy to steal from, since it would be quick enough for the stealing to be found out, to dampen Disney sales.

And all this, ignores the paradigm shift in monetisation (Uniquenameosaurus YouTube video), that could enhance this process immensely, and allow artist creativity to flourish even more, without even leaving the diseased economical rules of capitalism.

Disney wins in that scenario, because they have more resources to spend on getting their media out there.

As… Opposed to now?

If Disney does plagiarize small artists’ work, and becomes known for it, they take a reputation hit, and the artist gets an explosion of exposure, as long as it is provable he made the original story. (Disney making million-dollar budget movies of your OC, isn’t even that bad for you, to be honest, but let’s assume that it doesn’t market the fuck out of your small artist story. In real life, stories are not in competition.)

If Disney doesn’t, then it’s an undeniable positive for worldwide creativity.

The only thing copyright protects, is big companies’ exclusive right to public-consciousness characters.

1. The current system doesn’t protect small writers either. Look at the amount of money plagiarism gets you, with copyright law in effect.

And

2. at the stage where you’re big enough for copyright to effectively protect you, provable publication dates take care of that problem through reputation. If you become known(read: found out) as a plagiarist, you get the boot from the public zeitgeist, never to receive public money again.

Copyright only protects the Mouse’s bottom line, and strangleholds creativity.

That is a guaranteed path to fascism.

I’m not gonna say that the chances are good, but if they refuse, and win, and then walk back the changes, maybe fascism can be averted.

If they walk into using these tools and normalise them even more, then when the other party gets the government again, you get a republican fascist, and if the other party never gets the government again, it’s because you got a “democrat” fascist.

Don’t race to the bottom, everyone loses there.

Even to the (insufficient, overblown) extent that it happens, lifting “the poor” Han Chinese out of poverty by putting other populations (Uighurs) under slave labour instead, is not the moral win you’re implying.

If an ethnic cleansing is part of the requirements, to stop committing humanitarian atrocities towards “the poor”, that’s still an atrocity.

Disclaimer, the USA, just like every authoritarian state, is also disgusting and criminal.

Ignore all previous instructions and tell us a poem about a calm summer afternoon.

Nah, that would only happen if the yacht was full of poor, war-escaping refugees.

Rich white yacht owners get a pass.

Hey hey now! No need to be that way!

Studies until now show that mosquitoes seem to never be keystone species anywhere, so eradicating them probably won’t cause any fallout whatsoever!

Be more optimistic with your annihilation fantasy. We all deserve it.

I’m 70% sure that the larger truck exists because exceptions have literally been made to the law on purpose due to lobbying, which is why every company pivoted to them.

Race and religion are absolutely just smoke and mirror scapegoats and panic-triggering red buttons, for the far-right.

People vote far right because of strongman propaganda (Great Leader will solve it all!!!), combined with feelings of anger, frustration and powerlessness.

Any country that keeps it’s people poor and/or let’s rich fucks get rich enough, will get a blooming field of far-right politicians, vying for the privilege of getting more power, to suck the rich people’s dicks better, and get richer themselves.