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Cake day: January 23rd, 2022
  • possibly a cat@lemmy.mltoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Piracy was NEVER stealingEnglish
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    7 months ago

    It terrifies me how much effort piracy communities spend on absolving themselves from immorality by projecting it onto other pirates. No one cares about how broken IP law is, they just care about having the moral high ground. And so the laws continue to get more and more broken.

    We’re all breaking the law (at least in certain jurisdictions). If morality is tied to law, none of us are moral. And when the law comes for pirates, it doesn’t care about our petty divisions.

    If you want to protect yourself (and creators for that matter), don’t attack each other. Attack unjust laws and systems that deny creators fair compensation.

  • possibly a cat@lemmy.mltoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Table of various levels of piracyEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Eh, plenty of Japanese people are very anti-nationalist. The rich and powerful are nationalist, though, and that’s why the conservative Buddhists have held a mandate for decades. Corporate Japan does support these parties by a vast majority, and that is also the group with the most exposure to foreigners.

    The anarchists were strong in Japan until they were finally crushed in WWII, and leftism was never allowed to reorganize afterward, which is strongly tied to the manifestation of Japanese counter-culture and disenfranchisement. People with these beliefs still exist widely - they simply have no power or money. Nonetheless they are present enough that they manage to support many left-wing artists, in the fringe and also sometimes in the mainstream. For example Miyazaki is still beloved for Nausicaa, despite him being considered an anti-Japanese traitor by the right. Left-wing media gets more and more flooded out by neoliberal swill as it gains international appeal, unfortunately, and overt leftist themes have become rare since the 90s.

    The US did not end the empire when Japan was defeated in WWII. Instead, they used their control over the family so they could be used to keep the population obedient under occupation. Then, fearing leftists in the Cold War, they found that this pre-established political power was closest to their interests and ideals. They kept the current strong in doing so. Even so anti-empire sentiment was strong among the powerless masses for some time after their defeat. But it had no real basis or power because the old powers (and their amassed private property) remained, and now the families attached to the defeated empire are once again ruling with a near-mandate. Unsurprisingly, this occurred after the corporate class grew inequally powerful during the economic miracle. In other words, their government is extreme compared to the ideology of a large number of its population. But that population is largely distinct from the group with the most exposure to the Anglosphere, and largely distinct from the groups greenlighting mass media projects from around 2000 onward.

  • possibly a cat@lemmy.mltoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Table of various levels of piracyEnglish
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    7 months ago

    You were not asking about what is legally acceptable. Using laws to determine what is normal is the same logic as enlightened centrism. Th Overton Window is not defines legitimacy or morality.

    Looking at the gamut of possible positions, private property is on the right. As it is currently practiced, including intellectual property, it is on the extreme right.

    Discourse normalizing this extreme-right state does not serve the common person. It serves the corporate and private capital interests exclusively by increasing inequality and socioeconomic stratification. This is immoral, which is what you asked about. It is also frequently illegitimate because destroys democracies in favor of capture by special interests, and it is supported through deceptive tactics that keep populations under control.

    You mention Japan, where neoliberal private property laws are more mature than most countries. That’s a great example. Their political system is broken more than most, and that’s how we get such extreme ideologies put into practice. Many Japanese citizens recognize the illegitimacy of their democracy, and as such voting and organizing rates are extremely low. For many citizens, the greatest political progress they’ve seen in decades was Abe’s assassination. That’s exactly what you get when you delegitimize your government through extreme positions pushed by special interests.

  • possibly a cat@lemmy.mltoGaming@beehaw.org•Let's discuss: DOOM
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    8 months ago

    Doomguy is actually a post-doomer:

    He knows that the mega-corporations are evil and that the world’s future is hopeless. He knows he isn’t going to save anyone.

    But he keeps killing the demons, because it’s simply the right thing to do. It’s who he is. Why did he get sent to Mars in the first place? Because he spoke up about the injustices he witnessed in the Marines. And as every Marine knows, that’s the worst possible thing you could do for your career trajectory.

    But doomguy doesn’t care. Because doomguy doesn’t believe in other Marines, in corporate bigwigs and other cultists, in the scientists naively working towards enslaving the galaxy, or in ignorami such as you or I. Doomguy has been liberated from the chains of hope.

    Now he lives a simple path, following his own dharma: Doomguy sees fucked up shit, and he fucks it up.

    A true role model for those seeking reason in a life bereft of hope. Doomguy teaches us how to find meaning in the process, rather than the outcome.

    Flowers can grow even in the most barren desert, and a Zen master can arise among even the most despondent. The demons cannot bear one with such control over the elements of their own faith and despair. And so, generation after generation, they taught their spawn to fear the coming of doomguy: The one who would overcome the trappings of hope and ego to selflessly deliver justice against his masters.

    Only one who would sacrifice it all could destroy it all - to pursue ruin as progress - and only one who truly spites the mortal coil can offer such a sacrifice. Doomguy is the best of us.