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That would just result in corporations like Disney ripping off independent artists.

Fucking thank you.

The whole "copyrights should be abolished" trope is regurgitated by people who have clearly never created anything in their life. For artists, musicians, and other content creators, copyright is vital to our lives.

If you think Disney is powerful now, imagine what Disney would be like if no other creators had any legal protection at all.

illegally

The problem is that they're doing it legally.

My dude, I'm here to actually have conversations, not use sophomoric quotes that are unrelated to what's actually going on.

If you're interested in engaging honestly, let's do this. Otherwise...

Sure, that tracks. You'd have a share of responsibility for the result of that choice. But as it's much farther removed from the actual election, it would far less responsibility than someone who voted for Jill Stein, or who wrote-in Bernie Sanders, or anyone other than Hillary in the actual eleciton though.

The sad thing is you think I'm insulting you.

I'm not.

I'm trying very hard to help you understand that you've been fooled into acting against your own interests. There's no reason to take it personally or try to come up with some sort of "gotcha" to throw back at me. Especially since I actually agree with what I guess you thought was some kind of slam dunk take-down.

In fact it's extra tragic, because not only are you fooled so thoroughly, but you're also getting defensive about it rather than just listening to what I and others are saying and examining the consequences of that choice. You should be here for conversation, not for meaningless grandstanding and digging your feet deeper into a misunderstanding.

This is a "look what you made me do to you" sort of thing.

Electing Obama took us back 40 or 50 years on race relations because the racists decided they couldn't handle it. It wasn't Obama's fault, or Obama's voters fault. It was entirely the fault of the GOP.

Agree 100%.

I hate the system, and I genuinely sympathize with people who want to vote for their dream candidates.

I just wish they would open their eyes and understand how the system actually works, and how they are being duped by rich, powerful people into actively working against their own goals.

We can change the system by being active politically at the local level. But change will never come by voting in a dream candidate, because even if hypothetically someone like that won the presidency, they would simply be at the mercy of the legislature with zero support from either party. A third party president would be a lame duck before they even swore their inauguration oath.

I can't tell if you're just expressing extreme disgust, or if you're actually asking the question...

Whether by action or inaction, if your vote supports Trump getting elected, then you are a Trump supporter, a GOP supporter, and share a portion of the responsibility for the greater destruction and genocide that is brought about by that result.

So in fact, we all do get to blame you and others who support Trump.

whether or not he was acting as President when he was giving the Jan 6, 2021 speech or whether he was campaigning as a private citizen.

This is some sovereign citizen bullshit. Of course that's the kind of the argument Trump's lawyers would make. It should take 2 seconds to slap this down, except with how corrupt the SC is I don't have any confidence they won't just give it to him.

Ironically I'm still getting shit upon by one or two freakish trolls for simply asking questions and engaging in dialog.

It's kind of annoying that the block feature doesn't work right, since I still get notifications whenever people I've blocked comment.

"Your honor, I'm not a murderer; I was just a murderer for one day."