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  • I would’ve given kudos to Bush, Obama, Trump(1), or Biden if they did this. The only one calling this a “genius move” is you, it’s just logical.

    America should not be the world police. We never should’ve been in the international situation we are now. A literally uncountable amount of money spend over the past few decades for what? American poverty is higher than ever, our infrastructure is worse than ever, and American perception abroad is worse than ever. All this dispite bankrupting ourselves to help countries that don’t like us and topple regimes that we don’t like. Humanitarianism.

    “Soft power,” fuck off, I don’t want hundreds of billions of black dollars being spent to undermine the sovereignty and merit of foreign countries.









  • Bandcamp isn’t mainstream? Damn, sometimes I’m reminded just how far outside of the mainstream I really am. There’s Boomkat but they’re far smaller than BC.

    To be pedantic, the music on a CD is digital, it’s just kept in a physical factor. You’re right that most artists don’t sell digital music files anymore. Every now and again an artist will include a one-time download code with a physical purchase. It’s really bad for business and posterity. Streaming (and grey-market streaming rip DLs) are the only way to listen to loads of music.


  • They won’t. Movements like these are created by wealthy trust fund Ivy League-ers with a chip on their shoulder at their given privilege who want to fetishize the working class and want to earn social justice points from “the poors.” It never once crosses these folks’ minds that people aren’t joining their movement because the risks are massive and the realistically expected gains are tiny.




  • Porto881@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.worldIs This How Reddit Ends?
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    I dont disagree that getting paywalled sucks (and won’t make any specific comments about The Atlantic) but the alternative is hypertargeted ads plastering every free pixel of the screen and invasive data-scraping.

    It might just be a sign of getting older and managing my finances a bit better, but at this point in my life I don’t really cry much when i see good content put behind a paywall (again, no comments about *The Atlantic).

    Paid subscription and you still shove ads at me? Fuck off.