• Zephorah@discuss.online
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    21 hours ago

    Piracy keeps the poors occupied and busy so they don’t riot. There’s no blood left to squeeze from that rock, they’re not going to buy streaming. Games are in decline as systems die of go outdated, and corporate erodes the quality of development.

    They’re idiots if they push this bill in earnest.

    Look what happened the last time people had too much time on their hands (Covid). And everyone has a lot more to pissed about, now.

    • mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      Your last paragraph crossed my mind recently as the oil prices really start to spiral out of control. There were so many protests bordering on riots because people were stuck at home due to covid - now we’re already hearing news that truckers are starting to sit idle instead of driving at a loss.

      Imagine how much free time and how much anger everyone will have when the economy grinds to a halt from product shortages all over the country.

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        15 hours ago

        I’d love to think people would’ve protested racism and gross police incompetencies ending in death regardless, but it’s highly unlikely.

        Even the storming of the Bastille had to wait for nice weather.

        Locking away the poors’ access to distraction could very well be that “nice weather”.

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          2 hours ago

          Both of those things were protested when George Floyd was murdered. But only so much can be accomplished through protesting.

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          11 hours ago

          I’ve heard plenty of times in the past that truckers will strike over this or that, and I’d like to actually see it happen. It would stop everything in three days or so.

          Usually what happens is we get a couple of videos of truckers going slow and blocking the highway, but not much else.