the problem isn’t the existance of ip law. the problem is the double standard created by a system that says when we take from them that’s not allowed, but when they take from us that’s fine. someday i want us to get to where shared ownership of the commons works, but to get there we have to remove the vampires who have stolen the commons from us

a movie about spider web is gonna be huge someday

Trump Wrecks Everything Really Promptly

i’m so excited

Trump Unsurprisingly Blames Another

TUBA

i’ve been using Qwant when i search news

some of each i suspect

only reason we don’t call it that is because we invented a new, worse, more horrifying version of slavery than anyone else had thought of, and now we call only that slavery. if something isn’t identical to chattel slavery we won’t realize it’s slavery

welcome to the american prison system

you are correct

the bottom line is we all need to be more saavy to what the power of games is. play has always been a way of engaging the youth and teaching them the lessons we want them to use in life. for decades we’ve ignored what the games industry is putting out as long as it’s fun, or worse, just unquestioningly accepting that games are for boys and boys are into violence and the explicit objectification of the female form

feature of fascism: the enemy is both nearly eradicated and everywhere

who the fuck said anything about novelty?

Virginia is for lovers!

wait wrong slogan. can i assassinate the senator again?

they can steal more in crises

there cannot be peace without justice. the “peace” russia demands is “capitulation.” Were Ukraine to agree to russia’s terms, the results would be another russian invasion in the next 5-15 years.

it feels unhelpful, but at this point that’s all i have left. basically saying “now do you know who to listen to?”

libertarian capitalism, i would argue, is authoritarianism wearing a different hat

by my experience mostly straight eastern europeans. everyone else either started on something else or they moved off telegram because they didn’t feel like they could trust it

the real problem was authoritarianism all along