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I’m less cynical about SCOTUS
Is it cynicism when I’m following their actions and expecting more of the same? The SC makes shit up after the fact and finds ass-pulls to make it sound like the Constitution said that. That’s why, effectively, the POTUS can’t commit crimes as long as they are arbitrarily determined to be “official acts” now. They already announced we’re ruled by kings. How much further need it go?
It’s the most pro piracy argument that even the biggest normies can relate to.
Devout “Disney families,” the kinds with the stickers on their SUVs, may still see that as “stealing the magic.”
I doubt this will stand a court’s scrutiny
Unless it reaches the Supreme Court and in yet another 6-3 decision the corpos get to loot and pillage more with even less accountability.
I remember having some reservations and skepticism regarding the ongoing good faith of Netflix when it was the new hotness.
I was called, you may have guessed, a Luddite, and told that "it would be bad business" if Netflix fucked people over and that it’d be silly to hold on to physical copies of entertainment media.
Now I’m basically this face to the same people
It’s so blatantly in front of me that I was like a fish not noticing water
90% of all techbro “innovation” is one or more of the following:
“Put it on the cloud!”
“Make it a subscription service!”
“Put it on the blockchain!”
“Add more surveillance!”
The “ironic” part of 4chan’s nazism peeled away like an old dirty sticker over time.
You’re not really a capitalist in a meaningful way. You might cheerlead for it, but that isn’t a means of production no matter what Uber/Lyft might tell you.
Honestly as a capitalist (I know, blasphemy)
Before you congratulate yourself again for internet bravery, do you actually own capital? Do you own the means of production? If not, you’re not a capitalist even if you wave pompoms and otherwise do apologia for capitalism.
You sure showed them by smuglording for your corporate masters.
there is hope that not everything we use has always been yoked with pure greed
If your basis for believing that is Reddit having one co-owner you liked for one year and that’s the best evidence you got, that isn’t a strong basis.
You can do sophistic tricks like exaggerating other people’s positions to try to make yours seem more tenable so you can mine for supposed exceptions, but the reality remains that capitalism requires increasingly unsustainable profit margins over time for the lifetime of each product and that consequently results in systemic enshittification of things that were previously decent and bearable. That is an inevitable ongoing process in this present system.
then there’s no helping you
That tone isn’t necessary.
One co-owner being around for one year doesn’t absolve the skullduggery of the other that is still here to the present day, as another poster already mentioned.
Reddit is making Dead Internet Theory more real.
Line must go up, even at the risk of line going very down instead. No matter what.
Is reddit owned by a malicious entity?
Always has been.
As with many things under capitalism, the ongoing mandate is that profits must go up, and must go up at a higher rate no matter what, or investors panic and the price drops steeply which can lead to a collapse. Reddit is just another ravenous profit-seeking vehicle of the same kind and is going into the same “line must go up” death spiral.
or intellectual property, which is stealing
That had to be explained to make it sound like a bad thing. 🏴☠️
One of the first applications that will demand is decryption for more surveillance. It’s kind of inevitable.
Enshittification intensifies
Updated for the 21st century: a status quo enforcer with police and presidential loyalty ties that really likes neon and having sex with people that like neon while maintaining the status quo in a way that makes them a Legend of Night City™.