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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I think it’s of utmost importance to co-opt guns and 2A enthusiasm. We don’t say “You can keep your guns”, we say “You can use your guns! Shoot that way!”

    We also need to co-opt anti-liberal rhetoric. It’s important to maintain shared contempt toward common enemies: Basically, men in suits

    “Oh, you don’t like unions? Neither does your boss.”

    “Middle managers are human shields to protect your CEO from looking you in the eye.”

    Moreover, co-opt family values rhetoric: “Defend your family from parasitic health insurers.”

    “Defend your family from wage theft.”

    “Defend your family from your landlord.”

    “Protect your children from health insurance.”

    “Protect your children from predatory bank loans.”

    “Protect your children from your boss.”

    “Protect your children from for-profit education”

    We also have to co-opt their hatred of racist accusations

    “You’re not racist! Your CEO is.”











  • Copyright exists to protect creators. However, copyright laws are abused by large corporations.

    I am not a regular reader of Jacobin, especially not stories about copyright, but if I had to guess, their main concern is the stifling of culture caused by corporate-driven copyright legislation and attacks on the public domain, moating companies from competition and having to find new material (how many Spiderman movies have come out since 2000?)

    Worse, (perhaps according to Jacobin) OpenAI, a large corporation with lots of money, is freely using copyrighted material to train its models, thus profiting on someone else’s work.

    I think that these takes square quite nicely