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Originally Posted by Miburo
Explain.
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In a Capitalist system, one of your liberties is to utilize the market in whatever way you wish in order to make a profit. I'm not saying it's a good liberty, and I certainly do not condone such an unregulated system, but that's how it is in the US right now and that's how the Tea Party wants to keep it. They view it as an infringement of their rights and freedoms to have their system regulated and their high incomes highly taxed.
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Oooohhhh, that bad thing isn't as bad as a worse bad thing. What's the point of even saying something like this, really?
Ooooohhh, thousands dead at the hands of the Russian-backed Syrian military is nothing compared to the Holocaust.
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I'm not saying the police brutality in the US is literally "nothing" and should be ignored, I'm saying that I think most US citizens are trying to make it seem worse than it is in an "oh woe are we, look at how bad we have it" kind of way. It just seems ignorant and disrespectful to those who are losing their lives.
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No. Like SOPA. The intention there was to take away freedom from the people of the country to preserve archaic business practices of corporations that just so happen to fund lobbies that provide campaign funds for some of the politicians that would be voting for the bill.
Or, if you want to look at it in a more optimistic light, the bill aimed to take freedoms away from the american people to fix something that cannot even be shown to be harmful or wrong. A point I am extremely confident I can debate successfully should anyone disagree with that last part.
Not that it even matters what the fuck their intentions were. What they're trying to do is horrible and wrong. Police brutality is bad, even if some other things are worse. Etc.
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The good intention such legislation is done with is "protecting the intellectual property and resultant income of the media producers." I believe that the supporters of SOPA and other such bills legitimately believe that they are on the side of good, fighting against the vile pirates and thieves of the internet.
They view it similarly to 17th and 18th century piracy, in which they are Spain and their shipments of gold are being attacked by "seadogs" (pirates) who are unofficially supported by England. This is obviously not the case though, as I also believe digital piracy in the form of sharing does no noticeable damage to their revenue.
However, as wrong as they may be, that does not mean they do not think they are doing the right thing.