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Totally fair point, but what can you do? This is how the world works. Fighting such beasts is pointless. You might tame them with lobby money, but no billionair
by preaching5271 2y ago
Totally fair point, but what can you do? This is how the world works. Fighting such beasts is pointless. You might tame them with lobby money, but no billionaire is interested. And we're now talking about the human spirit that cannot be chained, as also seen in Pirate Bay or Snowden. Sure, people do need heroes and hope from time to time. But I have become less romantic over the years, and more careful.
- FpUser 2y ago[flagged]
- Joker_vD 2y ago[flagged]
- hiatus 2y agoIt wasn't a crime against the crown last time?
- waldothedog 2y agoI think they were being sarcastic.
- suslik 2y agoOnly if you loose.
- Joker_vD 2y agoRight, of course Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
- HeckFeck 2y agoYou can adapt and fit in to the establishment, and I wouldn't suggest any moral problem with it. We definitely need stability - the raising of children requires it, trappings like clubs and societies and clean streets are great, but I think the spirit of mavericks like Kim is much more 'right' about something that institutions will always miss. I can't celebrate this at all, and I am never sympathising with legal thuggery. It is just naked power exerting itself and it will always be ugly.
- chii 2y agoWhile it's true the copyright lobby tried to make an example out of kim, it is completely useless in stopping piracy nor any form of copyright infringement that will inevitably continue to happen. > It is just naked power exerting itself and it's a relatively minor showing of it. Compare it to direct assasination of foreign nationals (of which both the US as well as russia has done). The chinese stationing covert forces to try to police their migrant nationals overseas (spy stuff basically), or if what snowden leaked is as widespread is it is alleged, the amount of hoovering of information and surveillance that exists!
- FredPret 2y agoThe maverick spirit is definitely more right that wrong, especially in the long run.
- jokethrowaway 2y agoEducate the next generations. Maybe we'll have a generation of people with a backbone again who will be able to free us from government oppression. The trend is going the other way, so I think we're heading to socialism-ville for a repetition of last century's lessons.
- commodoreboxer 2y agoA lot of the best things we have in the modern world are "socialism". Libraries and parks are socialist. Socialism isn't a dirty word, nor is it an argument or a criticism.
- Andrew_nenakhov 2y ago> Socialism isn't a dirty word, It is, for people like me, who have actually experienced living under a socialist regime.
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- paulryanrogers 2y agoWas it the socialism or the autocracy, behind thr veil, which made it so unpleasant?
- Andrew_nenakhov 2y agoThe socialism, of course. Unlike socialism, autocracy can be prosperous.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoIs there somewhere I can read more about it? Because there are democratic socialist countries doing quite well (especially in Scandinavia), and autocracies of all kinds doing poorly (like Venezuela).
- jtriangle 2y agoFight in the shade
- diego_sandoval 2y ago> Fighting such beasts is pointless. You realize that if everyone thought that, the world would be a worse place?