It’s a “heads-I-win / tails-you-lose” system when business can violently extract the value of labor coming and going.

Either the state protects owners of IP (inevitably a business entity looking to collect rents on its use) or it facilitates robbing the original artist (inevitably a talented individual/team that lacks the money for a lengthy legal fight). The legal system never seems to break in favor of the people themselves. It can only exist as a gradient to move wealth from the sweet of one’s brow to the pocket of one’s bosses.

The African invaders

I feel like I’m talking to a guy who was deeply offended by the movie Django Unchained.

I mean, look at India. The Modi government will crawl over broken glass to appease their colonial oppressors. Or, at least, they’ll find some of their lowest cast neighbors to do the crawling for them.

It’s the 1980s all over again. Americans conveniently rediscovering how much they hate Japan, the moment they see the country as a global rival rather than a source of cheap labor.

I mean, good luck. I’ve seen some noise about demanding VPNs be registered by individual. Even that’s going to rub a lot of tech bros the wrong way, so don’t hold your breath.

VPNs have never been more powerful

I’m sorry if my post offended you.

ultimately lead to everyone being called a “Nazi

There’s two kinds of people who post this.

• People who are extremely naive and don’t understand the context of what they’re saying

• Actual fascists

I kiss yours

Check your communities, and what instances they’re on. Not all are created equal. lemmy.ml tends to be pretty wacko

“Hey y’all, anyone feeling hostility on Lemmy”

“Yeah, let me tell you what, fuck those fuckers over there. They fucking suck and I hope they rot.”

Like, how do you not immediately block everyone on lemmy.ca after reading this hate?

I also find lemmy.ca quite friendly,

Sure, if you ignore the assholes who pop into other communities to take a colossal shit on them.

OpenAI is full of shit, as usual. They want engagement and they need revenue. They’ll do whatever it takes to get those things. Political ideology and sociological ramifications are an afterthought.

no one eats fat, or carbs, or protein. We eat foods

Okay, but pork chops and pasta have very different proportions of the above. You can definitely structure your diet to weight towards one or the other.

In the real world we get all three together every meal, and if you’re not, it means you’re following a diet that you probably shouldn’t.

Angry JBP noises

More seriously, there’s plenty of dumb fad diets, to be sure. And now we’ve got a host of medications for basically shitting out all your calories faster than you can eat them to lose weight. But there’s definitely a problem in our general food delivery system, especially with regards to fats and sugars in fast foods.

Like, you can be blase about food composition. But there’s some shit that simply shouldn’t ever be in your diet (carbonated sodas, heavy preservatives in baked goods, lead). A lot of the “fad” aspects of diets tend to take these fundamentals and extrapolate them out to the extremes.

So you have people running away from freshly made rigatoni because it shares some of the fundamentals with fast food french fries.

IT’S AN UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE! I’M ONLY MENTIONING YOUR WEIGHT BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT YOU!

Thank you, but I’ve been experimenting with a lot of different options and decided that this is…

YOU’RE GOING TO DIE BEFORE YOU TURN 60! WHAT WILL YOUR WIFE AND KIDS THINK?!!

Plutocrats preparing for the apocalypse while staffing every town cryer job in the neighborhood with a guy who screams “Rain has always happened! Flooding is scientifically impossible! The people installing buoys on their homes over there are the reason you haven’t seen the sun in a week.”

Being stupid is ignoring a question

Bro, what?

it’s an ideology centering private property and capitalism

That’s the economic angle. But it also promises a host of libertarian social reforms included within the free market system. What’s more, liberalism isn’t just an attempt to yank socialists back from their economic progressivism. They’re often efforts to balkinize the power base of local dictatorships and feudal aristocracies.

The original liberals were trying to break up the Old World feudal system, establish economic mobility through cross-border trade, and secularize states that had historically been married to a single branch of a particular religion. All of that was incredibly left-wing from the perspective of the theocrats and monarchists.

Hell, the whole pitch aimed at The Dictatorship of the Proletariat that liberals make is that Socialists/Communists are just Monarchists in disguise. Unipolar parties aren’t really democratic. Centrally planned economies aren’t really communally owned or beneficial. And atheist leaders are just advancing their lack-of-religion as its own kind of faith.

Are these liberals full of shit?

But the political spectrum is wide, and they’re nowhere near the right-most end of it.

you’re being coaxed by the rich to create all these dividing groups

“Bad People tricked you into thinking that way” is such a shit way of engaging anyone politically.

It simultaneously serves to call the audience stupid and insert some nebulous outside agency as the scapegoat for failing to make your own case.

Like, if you want to rally people to all agree you fucking suck, there’s really no better way than to go to every individual group and say “I’m right, its obvious, and you’re just too dumb to notice.”

Liberalism is right-wing

I mean, you gotta define your spectrum. If you want to get French with it, the Monarchists are on the right and the Liberals are on the Left. The communists won’t really exist for another fifty years (as a European economic school).

Liberalism only exists “on the right-wing” in the modern era thanks to over a century of Socialist nation building. Even then, the very term is muddled by decades of fascist rebranding - first as Anarcho-Capitalists and then as National Socialists and then as Neo-Conservatives and then as Neo-Liberals and now in a return to White Nationalism - with “liberal” being embraced or rejected in turns as our corporate media needed it to be.

As a case in point, I challenge you to tell me whether liberals are libertarian. In Europe and Asia, they functionally are. In the Americas, they couldn’t be further from it in mainstream politics.

The political spectrum is full of double-speak. “Liberal” is a textbook case. It can mean anything and nothing.

“Mr. Raccoon! No! Even for you, I promise there’s absolutely nothing of value in there.”

The idea that being a stay-at-home mother is somehow oppressive and bad

Orthodox Conservatives can’t seem to square that circle. You’re supposed to be a hustler, bringing in those bags, living the ultra-shiekh lifestyle with the 2.3 kids and the Mega-McMansion and the expensive cars and clothes and whatever the fuck else. But then you’re also supposed to be this very humble, folk-of-the-earth religious traditionalists with a one-income household and a giant quiver-full of kids and a military career and also I guess you’re supposed to grow your own corn or some shit?

Everything’s just optics. Nothing is real. When push comes to shove, you aren’t supposed to exist at all. Other people are supposed to stare at an AI facsimile if you and be jealous of how well it is doing at everything.