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I consented to my post being federated and displayed on Lemmy.

Did writers and artists consent to having their work fed into a privately controlled system that didn't exist when they made their post, so that it could make other people millions of dollars by ripping off their work?

The reality is that none of these models would be viable if they requested permission, paid for licensing or stuck to work that was clearly licensed.

Fortunately for women everywhere, nobody outside of AI arguments considers consent, once granted, to be both unrevokable and valid for any act for the rest of time.

So in other words, it would have been more expensive.

Don't fall for it.

Rich people promote neoliberalism not because it works, but because they get rich off it's failure. The "free market will fix it" is just another of those lies. The most hated companies in the world continue to bring in record profits.

X continues to operate despite their frontman being plausibly a neo-nazi and undeniably a fuckstain. Whatever damage has been done wasn't due to the public, but billion dollar companies.

The free market doesn't fix shit, regulations do. Everything else is just a pantomime.

The obsession with calling everyone "cucks" comes from the white supremacist scene that created the "alt-right". It's intended to mean "race traitor" more than it's intended go kink shame.

Yeah it's their fault for daring to communicate online without first considering a technology that didn't exist.

If there was no difference in labour costs or materials, why weren't they already being produced domestically?

Maybe that's why most of the rest of the world doesn't allow them have tools to easily kill people at a distance.

Most of it actually does -- very few places have total bans on firearms, they just don't let people buy semi-automatic weapons on a whim.

It's gruelling to accurately explain what gun control is to every pro-gun dildo on social media that feels entitled to a personal explanation (that they'll spit back in your face anyway).

But its important to remember that the pro-gun community isn't fighting "no guns for anyone ever", they're fighting "you need to pass a background check, prove you know how to safely store and use a firearm and not hit your wife"

Sounds like a lie to me. Semi-automatic handguns are absolutely the fastest, most lethal and most common way to turn interpersonal disputes and property crimes into murder.

You can't genuinely be looking to reduce these murders if you're unwilling to change gun laws. It wouldn't just require 100 years of work to solve inequality, it would require literal mind control.

Even if you pulled it off, there is still all the other motives you're handwaving away, like domestic abusers and "responsible gun owners" answering their doorbells by opening fire.

Even giving you a free pass on "they'll just do stabbings instead" (despite that not being true anywhere else in the world), that would still be a massive improvement over giving them semi-automatic weapons.

Stabbings are easier to flee, easier to disarm, slower and less lethal. If dogshit gun laws were scrapped after Columbine, easily half as many people would have been killed by domestic terrorists.

Then how have other wealthy countries avoided gun violence despite similar inequality and lack of affordable mental health services?

But arguing "cause vs symptom" is a waste of time anyway. Americas gun laws are demonstrably unsuitable for the state of American society today.

Gun laws that didn't put profits and reactionary votes first would massively reduce the damage done by criminals, abusers and terrorists while people spent 50 more years arguing over the problem being Marilyn Manson, violent videogames or not having access to some magical mental healthcare system that can cure "I want to kill people", even in people who don't seek help.

The "illegal market" you left out implies they were legally owned to me.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter, because it all flows from legal sales anyway. There is no magic gun fairy arming criminals by manifesting firearms out of thin air, only legal gun owners who refuse to responsibly secure their firearms.

Now delete your posts from ChatGPTs memory.

You sound pretty eager to be xenophobic to me. They haven't been convicted yet, but you've already decided they committed an act equal to beheading, with full knowledge of what was about to happen, and deserving of being imprisoned forever, without needing to even hear their side of the story (which could easily be "I was 14 and a murderer demanded information that wouldn't have been difficult for them to find elsewhere").

Exploding head syndrome only a beep? Brains do weird shit.

Did you just read the headline and get outraged without pausing for even a second to think "2.5 years for murder and mutilation can't be right, I better read the article"?

Whatever lies help you sleep at night but we both know you've never given away a gun, just like you've never done anything except enable mass shootings and hate crimes.

Best of luck with your gun store.

You are not entitled to solutions if you are unwilling to even admit to the problem, liberal.

Hurl all the shit-tier insults you want but nothing is more neoliberal than putting profits before people's lives, then when none of your promises come true, blaming people for not giving them enough money.

You genuinely think you're a hero for just owning a gun don't you? Nobody is intimidated, least of all the police.

You can't simultaneously claim that the police are a white supremacist group only out to kill minorities and that selling idiots and domestic abusers firearms stops the police from being a white supremacist group only out to kill minorities.

But why bother with logic, let alone facts. That doesn't sell nearly as many guns as lying and astroturfing does.

The reason your views on guns line up perfectly with high ranking members of a group you've repeatedly claimed are unreformable fascists is because that's exactly where those views have come from.

But don't worry, I'm sure that people who want to murder their way to an ethnostate and slave economy wouldn't just lie and tell you that something that helps them is actually the only way to harm them.

Like every useful idiot, they told you something you wanted to be true and you wrapped your warm little mouth around then and swallowed without a single critical thought.

Most drivers are responsible drivers.