The only world news lemmy upvotes. When the world news is about their favorite president.

Unless the whole system crashes, … would be a plus

I already knew someone would reply that, and addressed it.

You can’t say any of that. You are enjoying a product of a system as it exists. If it crashed and would never be rebuilt, all you’d have left is independent cinema/games. This already exists, and you could go consume that. But you don’t.

There’s no guarantee that in absence of big corpo with profits there will be anything produced like your favorite TV show.

I can promise you one thing: if no one pays for what they watch, there will be no TV shows. Scripting, cast, production, and delivery, all cost a lot of money. If tomorrow you inact a low that prohibits charging money for media content, no new system will emerge. Or what you’ll see is kinda what YouTube has: short videos with built-in ads, and potentially sponsored content that you’ll never know about.

So, right now, you’re damaging the only system we know that produces content that you enjoy.

Humans are inherently creative, creative work would still be made

Ah, I see. You want someone else to work for free, so you get your content for free.

Maybe you never talked to an independent artist. Who are in their 30s barely manage to make their ends meet, and are looking for any chance to get into a different career path.

No, anon, you in particular aren’t morally safe. You make lame excuses for your inability to pay.

While your mega corporation is extremely rich, if tomorrow everyone starts pirating, that corporation will go bankrupt in a year. And all those TV shows you enjoyed won’t be produced anymore. No more new movies with cool stunts and special effects. No more games with insane graphics.

As a consumer of that big corpo content you don’t have the moral high ground to say “I never cared anyways about your shitty mass-consumer stuff”. You care because you pirated it to watch/play it.

So in the end, you only got your cake because someone else overpaid for theirs. Infinite replicability argument does not hold because it costs money to make content. And it’s a risky investment, so at times you want to get more back than you invested, cuz other times you’ll spend 50 millions on a game nobody wants to play, and lose 40 of those.

By pirating you inadvertently cause damage to the industry and if everyone followed your steps your favorite games/movies would ceise to exist. But for now it works cuz most people don’t pirate. So, are you morally safe, anon?

This is completely insane, btw. An actual radical far-right will be forming the government in Austria.

Yay, we’re relevant again!

– yurobro

It’s a yearly tradition now, yeah?

Ah, I was wondering how will lemmy make sure to talk about trump after the elections are over?

Yeah, right, by mentioning him and upvoting any mentioning of him in any sub on any topic.

This is a thread about UK and Czechia. Get the hell out with your American politics. Shove it faaaar up your ass and then walk like that till you reach reddit.

wtf, did you just do this whole cover for this simple post?

The diamonds you sometimes find on lemmy…

And exactly why, as an adult, can’t I vote for “no work on Fridays”? Why can’t I decide for myself as adult “I don’t want to spend money on universal healthcare, I want to spend it on weed, and if tomorrow I get cancer I’ll happily die, I’ll take that gamble”. Who are you, anon, to take that choice away from me and, who the f are you to dictate me how to responsibly live my life?

And if you think you know what’s best for me, or for whoever else voted for the “wrong for them” politician, then you’re simply against democracy. State this clearly “I know what’s best for people, and they don’t cuz they’re sheep trusting the wolf”.

And suddenly instead of being a resistance fighter you turn into a benevolent superior being whose help is somehow unappreciated. A very different picture in my opinion.

I beg your pardon, out of the 100 kids old enough to talk, 51 said this is the best kid to rule the kindergarten.

Or take a fuckin direct train from Geneva to Lausanne. Why would you ever drive this route?..

Or the government steps in and solves it. This is Europe, dummy.

Just wait for the next elections to hit your country with a right-wing populism like a truck.

It’s the same shit all over the developed world. Looking down on people who are upset with the current system and the democracy itself.

See, nobody cares. European lemmy doesn’t exist.

OP, you’re blocked now.

Shitty us political content and also posted to world news. Two offenses in one.

Dems for decades failed to properly address social inequality, while proudly parading their politically correct talk about “communities”, “affirmative action” etc. This is a feel-good talk for their white middle-class demographics, while actual people in actual “communities” felt like animals in a zoo with a bunch of aliens around them figuring out what’s the best name to call them. At the same time no meaningful change ever happened.

Trump won Latino votes in Miami. Just think about how much distrust the other side must have built.

Stop blaming the voters. Look into the mirror and ask yourself how could this have happened.

Nothing yet happened but you’re already crying like it did.

Believe it or not, he’ll probably cut subsidies to Israel, get a peace deal in Ukraine (yeah, by giving his buddy Putin parts of the country), and he surely won’t start any war with iran.

And all you’ll be able to do is continue fuming on the internet while being factually wrong. And in the end it won’t be a surprise to really anyone but you that your party will lose electrons over and over.

Stop being in denial. It’s not like 100% of those who didn’t vote would’ve voted democrat. They didn’t care to vote, so they could’ve voted for either side cuz they clearly don’t have a strong preference.

Trump won and won even the popular vote. And you are still crying “stolen election”.

Side news on lemmy, sadly.

But nonetheless, a question: what happens next? This means snap elections, yeah?

Oh yeah, that last implication certainly is full of polite implying. I’m honored.

You know what I see? Someone who’s afraid that their world order will change. And their solution is “lock them up while we’re in the majority”.

You know what I also see? A failed German re-unification, extreme arrogance of the west Germans towards east Germans, a bouquet of additional socio-economical problems that have been ignored for decades. And a consequent voters’ revolt.

And their solution? Tell all those angry people that they’re nazi and their problems will continue being ignored. I’m sure that will solve it.

The party in question, AfD, is fuckin scary. They, in fact, are openly nazi. And, yet, I promise you, banning them and continuing to ignore the underlying issues will only make things worse.

– Your Polite But Malicious Kremlin Bot