Copyright is whatever makes the wealthy wealthier. They’ll be copyright reform, but only to protect these new industries.

The Renaissance in Italy was paid for by the emerging banking industry, the Medici family is a good example of what happened. If you want large public works, and people like Leonardo da Vinci, then you also get families like the Medici. You can’t separate the two. So not just USA-centric.

“sweat of the subsistence farmer or the feudal peasant/slave was what built the foundations of most countries”, it was also access to different resources. Mining for silver in some areas, sheep and wool production in others, forestry in others … already by the 13th century the Hanseatic League had a large trade network in most of Europe (from the Mediterranean in N. Italy through Germany into the sea and along the coasts of the North sea and the Baltic sea to Norway Sweden Finland and Russia.

‘deprogram’…‘barred from having contact with their protective parent’.

This will be decades of lawsuits and millions of dollars.

On the bright side, more people using VPNs.

The USA has a bs mythology that it was founded by ‘pioneers’ and that a wild wild west existed. The untold history of the USA is really the story of finance. Those that financed, the joint stock companies that helped to bring immigrants over. The land speculators, and recruiters that brought over Irish and other immigrants over in the 19th century, through money provided by rail and steam companies.
These type of post-apocalyptic memes perpetuate the stereotype of a self-made country. When in reality financiers from England were offshoring labor to a country with fewer regulations and no copyright/patent laws.

Not a good look Democrats.

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It’s not about the rich. No one cares, except for a small handful of people. The vast majority of people want to fly away on vacation, own a large home, have a crappy grass lawn, eat meat everyday. They see environmentalism as some sort of odd lifestyle. If you make a law that says they can’t use gas lawn mowers, they’ll scream and go bat shit insane, call you the devil. They are relentless in wanting to pave over anything living.

If he could strike a deal with the courts, that he doesn’t get prosecuted for any of this crimes… he would happily lose. More money in playing the victim.

Thou shall not kill, yet Oklahoma has a death penalty. Don’t work on the Sabbath, yet everything is open on Sunday.

The irony of not being able to spiral downward, when spiraling downward.

Promote Frisbee golf? That way you don’t need to cut grasses.

And jobs are so stable, and give great benefits.

40 years of a recession will do that to a society. An entire generation fucked.

Car thefts are way up, thanks to key-less entry. How about doing something about that!

I don’t like the Republican policy, but it is semi-coherent; isolation, xenophobia, anti-immigration, no abortions in red states, burn down the entire economy if it doesn’t work for rural areas. The Democrats don’t have a coherent policy; immigration yes but also no. Peace in Palestine, but also send weapons to Israel. Stop Russia at all costs, but send as little money and only expired weapons. This is the greatest economy of all time ever, even if you don’t feel it and can’t afford a house. Crime is down, too bad you don’t feel safe.

Youth don’t vote, only Boomers vote. This is a election decided by Boomers, with Boomer issues.

The short sound bites are exactly what Trump is best at.

Neither do his voters.

It was bad.

I wonder if climate change will drive people back to places like Pennsylvanian? Good water, forested, temperate.