Also capturing the market and creating an unhealthy mono-culture. The overuse of pesticides has also caused a bug apocalypse that will eventually destroy our food chain leading to the end of wild animal life as we know it.

So they didn’t just fuck over the farmers, they fucked the whole world over and they get to laugh all they way to the bank.

What in the serious fuck is wrong with ICE officers. They aren’t professionals, they are a joke.

Threatening the crowd? I can’t even with this level of stupidity. Dumb thugs.

I think the advent of AI really highlights that we are finally on a post artificial scarcity trajectory. Corporations and the government have almost completely stopped caring about IP enforcement in the quest for AI.

The system you describe sounds somewhat reasonable. I was just pointing out it never existed in the first place. It is a compelling fantasy put forth by IP Maximalist to justify their rent seeking behavior. Making that fantasy a reality is probably possible in a non-fascist society.

I am a bit confused by the last part where without an IP system corporations would be allowed to abuse artists. That is literally what they do everyday with the current laws with AI being their ultimate fuck you to artists. I suppose part of the issue is these laws have been exclusively written by corporations to benefit corporations.

This is objectively false. The propaganda of IP is that it is designed to protect the little guy. History shows that this was never the case as copyright was always a tool of censorship and control.

The patent system has been twisted beyond the breaking point since before I was born. It does not exist for its intended purpose anymore and instead is a legal arms race between corporations and governments.

Trademark law has also been leveraged by monopolists. Although arguably its purpose makes the most sense being a commercial protection used exclusively against other commercial entities. It too has been abused regularly.

The average copyright court case is around $250,000+ from begging to conclusions in the federal courts. Asserting or defending your rights is insanely expensive.

Many innovators and developers have been litigated out of existence by not being able to pay to defend themselves in the case of patent trolls.

IP is for the wealthy and their favorite proxy the corporation to create artificial scarcity. They have authored a regulation empire to commercialize our culture. They act as gatekeepers to our thoughts and creations. It really is a bizarre system.

There are definitely valid criticism about the EU and its many processes. The bureaucracy, undemocratic representation, and issues around sovereignty are just a few to name.

Having said that, they have done far more to reign in our digital future than anyone else. So it is not all bad.

Yeah, I totally get the American hate. When it comes to history and even current government policy it is well deserved.

I also agree that stringent wealth caps must be policy. This is not even controversial at this point. In the US we tried trickle down. It has been a dramatic failure.

I don’t think you are irrational at all. I think you may not be seeing the bigger picture and lashing out against things that are not really the problem.

Don’t worry, King Trump will just declare a national bankruptcy. /S

You make excellent points. I truly believe with open source and some investments that every government can host everything they need internally.

I think this could have been done twenty years ago, but it is never too late to invest in our collective software future instead of letting corporations monopolize everything.

As far as social media, they will have to comply or exit the market. I would be wary of places like Zombie Twitter. They have already been proven to interfere with elections in other countries.

We are obviously facing a lot of policy making in order to reign in our digital future. Unfortunately, the US shows exactly zero appetite to pump the breaks. Let alone pull the ebrake and come to a screeching halt like they need to.

We don’t need to be reminded that Meta and Microsoft have contributed server resources to enacting a genocide. Even IBM helped the Nazi with their final solution during WWII. American companies are absolutely not to be trusted.

I did some basic research and made some assumptions. 1-2 million cocaine users that self identify. More likely 10-20 million users with a lot of those being casual take it or leave it users. Probably just under a million chronic users.

So let’s let’s say about million grams a day over a million users. That is about two tons. I think this is probably an underestimate, honestly.

Obviously my methodology is not great, just rough guesses based upon the best information.

https://www.samhsa.gov/data

A rough estimate for cocaine use alone would be anywhere from 4,000-12,000 pounds a day for illicit US use. It is a staggering amount of drugs that need to be made or imported for US citizens.

They also need to send several more times than this to keep supply flowing because of interdiction, waste, and shrinkage. So we are talking about 100,000-250,000 pounds of all illicit drugs every single day.

The War On Drugs was unbelievable success for it’s true intentions. A lot of people don’t understand that it was really a war on minorities. At best it was a political tool to suppress the public and at worst it was a multigenerational genocide.

Instead of giving people the hope and tools for a better future, our government used it to strip our rights, normalize police militarization, destroys countless families, and let people die from overdoses needlessly.

The loss of life is staggering. The dramatic drop in quality of life is mind boggling. The reparations the government would owe if this reality would reach the masses would be easily a hundred trillion dollars if you also count the destruction in Mexico and South America.

It is time for the EU to kick out all these too big to fail corporations that are openly hostile to European culture. Megacorporations are a direct threat to all citizens rights.

Do people realize how much drugs are brought into the US everyday? These small boats wouldn’t even be able to supply a small city. This is a complete joke. War on Drugs theatre.

Did you forget decades of drone strikes with highlights such as blowing up a civilian wedding?

You are not wrong, just a couple hundred years late to the party.

Hey, I get it. You don’t have answers and that is okay. Nationalism is always a symptom of a deeper problem and also relies on hiding the truth.

I told you the US was way worse than China. That makes me MAGA?

I think you are just confused and frustrated and really don’t know what the fuck you are saying at this point. I encourage you to continue examining your opinions. Cheers!

We can totally agree to disagree but the way the current Chinese government came to power was very brutal. We are talking 2 to 40 million dead depending how you calculate the loss of life.

No country is perfect and China is far from one.

I find it strange you would attribute the rise of China to their internal policies as opposed to the reality of them taking advantage of US and other foreign investments. China is great because of the US not despite it.

You sound like someone who is a pick me for China. This often happens when westerners get disillusioned with the US. Which I think is easy to do. They will look into some other country to latch onto.

For instance, I am guilty of looking up to some Western European countries policies and idealizing them. I was once also very enamored with socialism. I still am in a lot of ways.

Are you seriously trying to argue who is worse? I am pretty sure that US is way worse but China definitely sucks.

If do find you last comment enlightened. Yes we are not that much different. In fact China pumped out more billionaires than the US this year. Just two imperialist fascist countries sitting in a tree.

Blah blah. You can’t change something if you don’t understand it.

I am pretty sure you mean that we exist because of the ruling class. The American Revolution wasn’t really a popular uprising. It was a bunch of wealthy people seizing power through propaganda and terrorism.

There was never the “people” as you put it. It was a country by the rich for the rich with a nice helping of liberal propaganda the placate the masses.

We should turn his birthday into National Greed Day. A day to recognize how money has corrupted government!

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