Not until the Nazi cycle ends.
NoneOfUrBusiness
joined 1 year ago
Let's face it, corporate can do that anyway and drown you in legal fees if you try to oppose them and/or make a legally distinct version of your art. The reason corporations don't take your work and concepts for free is that they don't think it would be profitable to do so, not that they can't.
I'd certainly be way more willing to shoot at someone that's armed.
Even if you have reason to believe they'll shoot back? Because remember, this isn't just someone; this is people. Presumably there's more than one gun in the hypothetical crowd.
Very strong hugging machine.
The rules and regulations created by the same people funding and arming the genocide... right...
Then you're legally obligated to give me half your earnings.
Maybe if you pinch Mark Zuckerburg's coin purse hard enough you'll get him to flinch.
Too late. Trump doesn't need them anymore.
And under imperialist MLism, it's turned into another excuse for authoritarianism. Turns out freedom of conscience is important, who woulda thunk?
Abolishing these things is a negative act, though. As in, abolishing ICE means that the government won't provide the funding, resources or legitmacy necessary for the government agency called ICE to exist. The religious equivalent would be abolishing, say, the Church of England. "Abolishing" religion, on the other hand, is a positive act; you have to take something people are already without government interference and erase it, which would naturally take the form of an authoritarian crackdown. It's more that they're misusing the word "abolish" rather than abolishment being a spectrum.
No. Those are social services, not the system. "The system" specifically refers to economic and political power structures. Any modern society can and necessarily must have these things, so they're not an argument in favor of one system over another except in the sense of which system provides the best access to them. Bourgeoi democracy is clearly failing at like half of these, so yeah.
I mean, you see something terrifying, I see something that works. Armed demonstrations are a tried and true tactic for all kinds of militant activism.