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.

Yeah but this isn’t that. This is just another company trying to make their products hip and trendy.

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They won’t because Europe is always on the loosing side and getting in any war is bad, against the us, let’s be honest, it would be a disaster.

I meant diplomatically and economically, not necessarily militarily. There are cards that can be played without getting into a hot (or even cold) war with the US; (most) European countries just don’t use them because A: Their elites profit from US war crimes too, and B: Most of them are happy being US vassal states.

No way Europe meaningfully stands up to Uncle Sam, and heinous Israeli-American war crimes are nothing new. Trump still hasn’t actually outdone the Iraq war, for example.

In fairness, TCM has produced a nobel prize winning medicine

Wait really? Where can I read more about this?

Halal moment.

I don’t think this reaction makes sense when we’re talking about Catholics. Catholic clergy are already notorious for diddling kids.

Breaking Amazon’s stuff automatically makes one at least somewhat based. Fuck Amazon.

I never thought a reactionary repressive theocracy could be so based.

To be clear, we should all be glad the US doesn’t have a competent president in this case.

Very happy for them.

Data theft? Data should be a public good where authors are guaranteed a dignified life (decoupled from the sale of their labor).

I’ve seen it said somewhere that, with the advent of AI, society has to embrace UBI or perish, and while that’s an exaggeration it does basically get the point across.

Nah those guys hate (gen)AI because it’s (gen)AI, or for other reasons that are ultimately intrinsic to the tech such as the intellectual property aspect.

Adding to my somewhat short list of good things Trump did (I consider a dumber officer corps for the American war machine a good thing).

Seriously, can this woman just disappear from existence? Like at least Biden learned to keep his fucking mouth shit after killing American democracy.

Frankly if you were ever counting on Harris and crew to save you you were already lost.

and the only good that comes out of it will be Americans will finally have first hand experience of real war torn violence.

Hey, it might result in the dissolution of the US, which as a firm believer in “death to America” I’d welcome gladly. Anyway in case anyone thinks a peaceful resolution is possible, yeah no.

No, it gets money; it evidently does not get votes.

the political machine we’re building to combat the Trump administration will flatten the DNC old guard pretty handily.

Except no such thing exists. MAGA hasn’t created any meaningful surge in independent progressive (let alone genuine leftwing) politics; it’s only compelled the center left to close ranks with the center against the rising tide of the far right. There’s zero momentum for “flattening the old guard;” if you want to do that you’ll have to actually try.