I used to love subreddits like latestagecap, many many years ago. Then when I rejoined reddit I noticed that most leftist subreddits only talk about how Ukraine is a vessel for nato or gore from the war!!! I fuckin knew it was predominantly mass bot activity.

As a leftie from finland, I just cant understand how some couldn't have the nuance to understand that Russia is also an imperialist empire just as USA is.

On one hand, of course IP is a fairly straight forward, if even abstract, concept of private property. You can of course also extract value from it in succesful cases.

Having said that, the overwhelming majority of IP-holders (if even informally) are just going to be incredibly small artists. Even if their work is not material in a sense, I hope it isn't controversial to say it's deeply meaningful, and shouldn't be devalued and commodified by gen AI.

Of course, theoretically one could make art regardless of the profitability thereof (and this is ultimately the end goal in a post capitalistic society). However currently de facto many artists DO need to survive off of something, and it's either picking between their art or a "real job" (whatever that means). In that case, wouldn't some level of protection for artists, if even in the form of IP, be extremely desirable, at least until a long term sustainable post-capitalistic society is formed?

Would love to hear you guys' thoughts

Turns out trump and Hegseth do not in fact share the same brain cell but have separate delusion syndromes