Once the fringiest of marginal groups, the DSA now has close to 130,000 members, up from 5,000 15 years ago. And its members are winning Democratic primaries across the country.

Megan Romer, national co-chair, said its growth reflected a deep frustration with a system she said was failing young people. “People are, like, well, OK, capitalism’s not working,” she said in an interview. “So what else is there?”

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    Piracy literally isn’t stealing, the idea that it is is 100% propaganda.
    Piracy is copying things that are copyrighted. And is a copyright infringement. It is not theft or stealing.
    With stealing the original owner loses what he had when the thief steals it.
    With copying the owner obviously still has ownership and possession of what was copied.

    Unchecked capitalism on the other hand is very much stealing, where the rich take from the poor. So the rich have more and the poor have less.

    Which is why capitalism needs to be heavily regulated, exactly contrary to widely spread propaganda in USA about deregulation being better for all, when in reality it only benefit the rich.

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      Thanks! And I’ve seen a lot of people shit on the modern copyright system as it is, because you’re essentially paywalling for no real reason. I forget how it was explained, but another comment a few weeks back made better sense than I can recall here.

      It’s why I’ve switched to a lot of FOSS apps. Contributions to community driven apps make loads of improvements, and if there needs to be different solutions or goals, they can be forked off to meet different needs. It helps keep applications lightweight vs cumbersome and heavy trying to be a sloppy Swiss army knife.