Drag rides dragons and also “rides” dragons. drag/dragself person-independent pronouns. That means drag’s pronouns are the same in first, second, and third person.
Copyright was invented so artists would be able to sell their art, and more art would be made.
When copyright is protected on a product that’s no longer sold, less art is made.
When a copyright holder stops selling their art, copyright protections should immediately cease, and they should be responsible for copyright obligations - releasing the source code to the public. Use it or lose it!
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What if it uses a neural network to recommend posts?
Drag has literally been temp banned from this very community for “trolling” when drag made that same point. The mods are so racist they can’t imagine people would hold this opinion genuinely. They think it must be a trick.
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Is Guillermo a hero or a villain?
Drag read a pretty compelling dialogue on soulism by an indigenous australian man a while back. The soulists seem to have more respect for aboriginals than you do, based on how they’re written about.
and drag is insistent on not actually engaging with the points I make.
Drag doesn’t really understand your point"s". So far it seems like you only have one. “Industralisation is a necessary component of communism”. Drag has disputed that point six ways to Sunday, and you keep going back to it and forgetting the previous dozen times it’s been disputed. Again and again, you make further arguments based on that point, when it’s been disputed this entire time. So drag disputes it another way, and another, and another…
You’re confusing insults and advice. Drag is telling you how to be a better communist. You’re interpreting that as an attack because you see online discussions as being about performing correctness, instead of as a dialectical process where both parties benefit. You should read some Hegel.
Drag is talking about a hypothetical where white people don’t suck, don’t invade Australia, and trade advanced technology like computers and looms with independent and sovereign indigenous nations. Drag believes they would industrialise without major economic changes. It would be the same communism before and after.
Well that requires the internet, and Aboriginal Australians didn’t have the internet before colonisation. Having the internet wouldn’t have changed much in terms of the economic ideology. It would be the same communism, just with internet. They would have shared songs by email as well as at ceremonial grounds.
Also, don’t put Alabama on the same level as Korea. Put the USA on the same level as Korea, or put Alabama on the same level as Gyeonggi. Lemmy has enough US-centrism.
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https://www.odysseytraveller.com/articles/ancient-aboriginal-trade-routes-of-australia/
Trade was a central part of life for Aboriginal people prior to the British settlement of Australia. Trading routes criss-crossed the nation, dispersing goods, information, technologies and culture thousands of kilometres away from their origins.
‘The lines are the way the history stories travelled along the trade routes. They are all interconnected. It’s the pattern of the sharing system.’
This trading of songs can be thought of as a trading of intellectual property to assist travelling. Aboriginal people travelled a lot. They renewed and created relationships and socialised at small ceremonies and huge gatherings. They travelled for seasonal harvests on land, in rivers or at sea, either seeking or avoiding dominant weather events. If you knew the songs, you held knowledge of the land to aid navigation as well as find water and food resources.
They weren’t as different from you as you think.
Being an internationalist doesn’t mean you don’t write to an audience. Marx was a very European man with European subconscious biases, and the readers who provided the most feedback on his ideas were Europeans. Writing to an audience is inevitable in the process of creating a work. Ideology doesn’t change the practical truths of the work. As a materialist, you should understand that.
Drag didn’t accuse Marx of disrespecting indigenous communism, drag’s argument is based on the fact Marx didn’t. How many times did you read drag’s comment? Try rereading it one more time than that.
Well it wouldn’t make any sense for him to advocate for a return to primitive technology, because he wasn’t a primitivist. He advocated for the kind of communism he could see in Europe’s future. He was a European historian interested in predicting and making European history.
Your arguments are weird. You’re citing the fact that Marx talked to Europeans within a European framework as evidence he didn’t respect indigenous societies as communists. That doesn’t make any sense. Of course he did that, it doesn’t mean he thought the people he called communists weren’t communists. It just means he had an area of specialisation. Drag has specialties too; drag doesn’t know the first thing about Jewish communism, so drag doesn’t talk about Kibbutz-es. That doesn’t mean drag doesn’t respect Jewish communism. Marx is the same way. Everyone is the same way about whatever part of their field they’ve specialised in.
Drag thinks you forgot that drag isn’t an anprim again. Otherwise the last paragraph is pretty random to include.
Primitive communism and industrial communism are both communism, just like pepperoni pizza and cheese pizza are both pizza. The above quote doesn’t have a qualifier because it describes both kinds of communism.
Tools are force multipliers. Hunting game is several times easier with a spear, boomerang, or bow than with bare hands. Gathering firewood is easier with a stone or copper axe.
Drag isn’t an anprim. Remember that thing drag said about trying to understand the whole argument? Drag said primitive communism and industrial communism are the same communism. If drag doesn’t believe in a meaningful distinction, why would drag want to avoid industrialised communism? No, your assumption doesn’t make sense. It’s like you forgot our whole conversation and just responded to drag’s most recent message in isolation. You’re probably overworking yourself, having so many arguments all the time, and that’s why you can’t pay attention. Slow down, breathe, and read carefully. Try to empathise. Drag’s comments will still be here later. Try to get into fewer arguments so you can devote the proper attention to each one. It’s disrespectful to pay so little attention.
Sony has to make a Spiderman movie every few years even though DVDs of the old ones are still being sold, but Ubisoft can just delete games forever and they can never be played again.