we should destroy society somewhat

Slipping estrogen into your boss's coffee might sound cathartic, but if you unionize your workplace then you won't even have to slip it in his coffee. You'll be able to openly demand that he take estrogen. That's the power of collective bargaining.

"copyright is good in theory" did you know that you can digitize books and then have infinite copies so in theory every book, every piece of information ever written and published could be shared across the world basically for free but any attempts to actually do this get shut down by copyright lawyers?

they don't get shut down by copyright lawyers; they get distributed to a network of online mirrors that can expand without limit; sci-hub, libgen, zlib, ... others. they are sometimes called 'shadow libraries' and they are invincible. by the time the culture of distributing copies reaches this level of maturity, no copyright lawyer can shut it down. states are the actors who attempt to stop them, but they succeed in stopping this or that node, and never in blowing down the house of cards.

insofar as so-called piracy is this free and easy, only the ignorant or incapable are made to respect it. thus people who rely on copyright protections to make their money are like characters we find in Villon; swindlers, hoodlums, hucksters and the like, trading on the dupability of others. in fact, this is true not only of intellectual property, but all property; big agriculture and pharmaceutical companies and such may make the money they do only when they hoodwink others into thinking what is theirs isn't theirs too (and when hoodwinking fails, iron and black powder suffice).

Disagreement: the production of an item, unless stated otherwise, means the ownership of that item.

disagreement: mine. catch me if you can fucker.

I feel as if studio ghibli films being reduced to their 'cozyness' would be tragic if not for the fact that it is a deliberate branding thing for them. from the ghibli museum to the revolving door of hot topic collabs, miyazaki and/or the people he puts in charge of these things are aware of how desirable the worlds within ghibli films are. even at that, how meaningful is the politics of howl's moving castle being motivated by miyazaki's outrage at the 2003 iraq invasion when you examine it alongside the actual text of the wind rises? what does the environmentalism of ponyo mean when faced with the massive amounts of waste generated by ghibli merch you can get at wal mart? i'm straying from the point here but

this was an officially licensed product that was released to promote grave of fireflies

I think the sky is trying to say something? 🤔 👀 🏳️‍⚧️

They should invent a love without grief

by calling it "time theft", the state created a crime that sounds even cooler than simply dicking around while on the clock, something which is already incredibly cool

I love listening to WOKE Thrower's old-school DEI metal material, like their seminal (<-GAY) album War GENDER

A good pupper getting make-up done on the set of Resident Evil

Ripped from Resident Evil Deluxe Edition DVD

unpopular fact: u could buy your girl a 3$ bracelet or give her a flower from the ground, and she’ll think of u every time she sees it. girls really aren’t hard to please, you just have to actually show effort.

my mom doesn’t know if she approves

that hesitation could save her life someday if she ever runs afoul of the Thing

I feel like tariffing the "entire world" is literally just functionally sanctioning yourself