Eugene V. Debs' Ghost

It’s always amazing to see the media of the 80s just shitting on Japan. “Cheap mass market products that never work.” “They’re going to take all the American jobs.”

In Back to the Future 2, McFly is seen as weak for having a job with a Japanese boss and getting fired for it.

Cyberpunk has Japanese decorations and cosmetics because it was invented when Japan was the yellow peril.

At the same time, Japanese-Americans were asking for reparations from the internment camps, charged with the crime of being Japanese and having all their assets sold off without any consent.

Japan was able to help get a start on the next generation of writers with the mass production of anime into Western audiences. Now if someone doesn’t watch anime it’s seen as weird.

Right now China is that “other” nation. I wonder if in 30 more years we’ll look back at it and go “What the fuck were we smoking in hating people we never even had contact with? No Chinese person ever deported me. No Chinese person ever called me slurs.”

There should be a libgen, sci-hub, internet archive, and a massive torrent of ISO standards. Standards aren’t great if they are gate kept by money. Now someone will reinvent it without a profit motive, and there’s 2 standards.

White House red phone goes off, “We’ve been tying to reach you about your nation’s extended warranty.”

Womp womp, get bent and bootlick Trump in hopes he might acknowledge you for his next grift.

More proof Rainbow Capitalism was a lie/ad campaign to take more money from queers.

I wish I could rub this in the face of every cishet who said Rainbow Capitalism was actual progress.

“See we caught these guys without doing it, thank of how many more we can catch if we do! Like all the terrorists America has caught with violating their privacy. …Maybe some day they will.”

I don’t understand what’s so confusing about wanting to make art of anything you want, including based off of Disney or whatever you want.

Sorry that me pirating something doesn’t hurt their bottom dollar but they lobby to arrest people like it does.

Yep! I’m okay with that, intellectual property is theft, and is even more so when copying is nothing but flipping a 0 into a 1. Everyone online has the right to “steal” the words on the screen I “made”.

Copyright is theft of the public. The companies owning your favorite media isn’t going to fuck you, let alone give you anything but the privilege to charge you for the licence to borrow media until its inconvenient to them.

“You have the right to say and do any art! Except any art based off of anything from the last 100 years. You also can’t share any of the art that is the basis for your culture from the last 100 years either. Including the shit no one cares about but is owned by a company that doesn’t want to sell it, just sue anyone who cares about it more than they do.”

Yes, very freedom, much liberty.

I mean it checks, the idea of property and owning it is more important than anything else. The entire economic system is based around that. It makes sense that something that is free in action and in cost isn’t welcomed in such a money driven society.

Not just you, if they can ignore or defend Brave, they’re on the side of its CEO. No questions about it.

Every time someone uses Brave, I know I can ignore their opinion. They’re either a useful moron who is too dumb to look around them, or they support every single one of these things.

It’s no wonder why 4chan’s /g/ loves Brave.

So the CEO of the company funding Prop 8 to overturn gay marriage is nothing? Stealing from the creators it claimed to be funding? Being a right wing hotspot is cool with you?

Good to know that’s where you stand.