Leftist democracies (social democracies) perform best on humanitarian and economic charts.

For now. Most of the world has barely started catching up) or hasn’t caught up at all to Europe’s colonialism-fueled development. Not so coincidentally Europe’s standard of living is also declining. Also,

imposes regulations on the private sector when needed.

Except for all the times they don’t. Something something housing crisis.

Don’t forget to report antisemitism, y’all.

Yes, as opposed to all those super democratic capitalist third world countries.

Have you thought about the sheer retardation of modern copyright law today?

In what sense are we letting Putin do whatever he wants?

I mean, the EU is still announcing new sanction packages (they’re on their 17th package so far), which makes it seem like a lot is being done, but on the other hand why have all these sanctions not been implemented from the start? I don’t hear of the EU holding back weapons anymore, but it took literal years to get to this stage. And let’s not get into how reliant Europe still is on Russia gas after four years despite renewable energy being right there, or how the EU keeps supporting (or at least condoning) US imperialism that directly compromises Ukrainian defense, as is the case in Iran, or how Hungary is allowed to hold up billions in aid to Ukraine. After four years of this the EU is still pulling punches, and there’s very little indication it ever intends to stop doing so. The EU’s idea of supporting Ukraine is supporting Ukraine to the extent that it doesn’t compromise the bourgeois status quo (edit: recent example). Either go all in and stop the Russian invasion or force a peaceful settlement/capitulation without throwing Ukrainian and Russian lives into the blender.

It was supposed to be a three-day war, but they’ve been stuck in Donbas for four years.

It should’ve been a three-day war in Ukraine’s favor, is my point. Spending a decade grinding Russia and Ukraine to dust against each other is the worst of both worlds.

It has been going on for decades, but never “back and forth.” Israel has always been the clear and undisputable aggressor; some Palestinian factions (and in earlier stages mobs) have some blood on their hands, but that was always misguided self-defense or misguided retaliation, never outright aggression.

Basically I don’t believe in intellectual property in the first place, so I consider the whole debate moot. It becomes obviously absurd when you try to think of how to apply the rulings of actual property. For example if I have an OC and “lend” it to someone, what? Am I not allowed to draw it anymore? Will they sue me? How do I return a stolen OC? Are we really going to consider piracy a major sin (stealing)? Accepting IP as property would also imply that it never ends, and literally nobody does that.

Intellectual property should be seen for what it is: A system thought up by the British to make the rich richer that has about as much Islamic legitimacy as, say, segregation.

Edit: Also you’re generally not going to get many replies from Muslims here seeing as the number of Muslims on the Threadverse is in the single digits.

And where did I imply that I disagreed with this?

There is no but.

Except as I said there literally is a but. You’re the one creating a false dichotomy here.

We know that Iranian far right religious authoritarian regime killed many people.

Yeah but five figure estimates are basically all propaganda. Not like four-digit numbers of dead protesters are acceptable of course, but calling the 36k figure CIA propaganda is about right.

Chinese imperialism mainly happens within its borders (see: Xinjiang and Tibet); doesn’t make it any better. To be clear China is the lesser of these evils, but whether what it’s doing technically counts as an “invasion” doesn’t have much to do with that.

Amazing.

I mean this sounds nice but it’s kind of like saying “knives are morally wrong because they allow one to kill people.” GenAI is a technology that can be used for good and bad things; in this case I consider the phrase “proprietary output” to be the key part here, not GenAI.

I don’t think anyone left of like Reagan is arguing for that, though.

Before we talk wide-reaching systemic change, the obvious answer is: The exact same way they do right now? If copying minor creators’ art was profitable megacorps would’ve done it; no way these guys have the money to fight megacorps in court. People pay for art because they want to support creators, not because they’re compelled to by state violence. Your point might have held water if piracy wasn’t already easy as shit, but it is so nobody is being forced to pay for anything. Also as I said before even “original” content can be made with AI, and while the result is usually inferior the difference in quality likely won’t compel someone to pay for it if they don’t want to. For the most part, the law only protects the rich.

Not when minor creators use it to make a basic living.

This is more of a bad system being incidentally used for a good thing. Using state violence to restrict dissemination of ideas for profit is morally wrong and frankly dystopian. The real issue here is that artists aren’t properly rewarded for their contributions to society and people aren’t guaranteed a base standard of living despite it being possible to do so. Besides, if the AI debacle is proving anything it’s that copyright, like all law in general, doesn’t apply to the rich, so I’d bet good money even its supposed benefits of to minor creators are mostly theoretical; I certainly doubt your average minor creator has the resources to take megacorps to court over non-blindingly obvious (and probably even blindingly obvious) IP theft.

Which are basically just synonyms for left and right.

They looked at how America maintained a system of racism and discrimination in its legal system.

It was… uh… a lot more than that. America didn’t go fascist because their ruling class compromised during the Great Depression, but they did have all the pieces of fascism.

A mayor can’t really do most of these, but also I mean yeah he’s a demsoc; it’s up to the leftists on the streets to force him to do good things.

Um sorry to tell you this but the OG Nazis were inspired by bipartisan American policy. If anything y’all should thank your lucky stars FDR did something before you went full Heil Hitler; this was long overdue.