nice to hear some real punk

NP, let me know if you need a copy

I know of this one because it is pretty famous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free

I’ve read people’s memoirs of escaping that regime but not a book about the memoirs of that period as a subject.

That’s anxiety inducing for sure. Probably best to leave it with the one email unless you don’t hear back for a few business days.

People were tricked into streaming and should stop streaming from any source. Take the media you want and store it. Streaming is bad for the environment, bad for artists, bad for media preservation, and bad for our rights. Corpos want you to stream because they don’t think you should own anything or access anything without them. Do not comply.

alt: Regular Show Meme, Bird and Raccoon and four baby ducks sit at soda bar. Bird posits “Or maybe everybody is freaked out by king ghidorah”

Use an app like Freetube to deny them ads entirely.

https://freetubeapp.io/

Wow, Matt Shaer really didn’t understand the assignment, did he? No critical thought at all, just “both sides” again. We need fewer journalists like him.

just for clarity, rip Tort who did nothing wrong and was a hero

https://stopcop.city/memories-of-tort/

I accept the challenge. I’m taking you down.

Also, I call out @knokelmaat as promised, if you yet live for the game.

mfw i don’t pay them money

“babe I know but it had a wizard name”

Lol. Lmfao.

Those people were scabs during the 2000s writer strike, though. This guy is talking about replacing labor with stolen labor.

oh sorry, i treat all communication from corpos as hostile propaganda regarding labor and i make logical assumptions about what will happen to people whose labor is replaced

my views may not be suited for your purposes

Corpo figurehead bloviating nonsense problems to justify paying fewer writers. Sure, just pay google to steal their ideas badly and at scale. As if they don’t already recycle and resell content constantly, you need an LLM to steal a riff on the Magnavox logo? Maybe leave the creative industry and make room for actual creatives.

it is pretty sad how completely captured by their fiat they are in the colonies, you pretty much can’t motivate them without it

it’s like antisocial brain damage they just keep passing along because they can’t figure out communal supply and exchange without little paper slavery

Both parties are Nazifying rapidly. I’m not in the business of arguing over which had further distance to shift, as both have directly impacted my life with their fascism. I fled Fetterman’s district. My choices on the ballot were Oz or Fetterman, and they are both Nazis now. I don’t know who you are or how you think you align, but at present I feel surrounded.

Hard to say, friend. My life is worse for the work I did and “America” is Nazifying rapidly. Fled John Fetterman’s region with my family and just trying to get my life back together now, figure out what is next.

There are tons of reasons because Americans have been groomed this way on purpose, but here’s one I haven’t seen brought up here yet.

“Doing something about it” has consequences. In no order, and wildly varying in severity:

• You may be imprisoned (whether or not you are charged). The jails and prisons are very bad & this can lead to enslavement.
• Convictions strip you of civil rights.
• You may be entrapped or assassinated.
• Public activism and willingness to volunteer is frequently redirected by capitalists to spoil outcomes or just waste activist energy.
• Professional skilled volunteering (lawyers, librarians, medics) does not count as employment in your field for most purposes and this will inhibit your career. It can also get you blacklisted.
• Capitalists intentionally endanger and expose activists during pandemic events.
• Street violence from police, security, hate groups.
• You may be doxxed.
• Propaganda aimed at normies may turn friends and family and community against you.

All of the above are things that happened to me or activists I know / worked with in the Central & Eastern Rustbelt region of the stolen lands.