Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@AaronMk  
Yeah, you lost me after the first paragraph.
 
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@The Smiling Pony  
Technically, they do have multiple branches of government, including an elected body of ‘representatives’. It’s just that they’re all subservient to the ruling family.

A question for the EU users here, and no, it’s not related to the Copyright Directive, Brexit, or the Yellow Vests.
 
At least not specifically.
 
How much of a threat does Euroscepticism pose to the EU?

““Everybody Is Freaking Out: Freelance Writers Scramble to Make Sense of New California Law [Hollywood Reporter]
 
This will just hurt freelance writers: the law basically limits freelance writers to 35 articles per employer per year, and is nothing more than a protectionist measure for the legacy media.
 
Dammit, Commiefornia! Why don’t you go bankrupt, already. I mean, you already are morally bankrupt!

@Lord Goku  
Behold as the government, left or right, will bend over for the Legacy Media more often than not at every goddamn turn.

@CaptainXtra  
It fuels populism  
It brings the idea of bringing borders to stop the ‘evil migrants’  
It ends all regulations and people’s rights  
Everything gets more expensive because imports will get taxes  
It worsens the good relations we had with allies for 60 years. like France and Germany…  
It’s just nationalism.
 
Here LePen softened her tone on being independent. I gave up Mélenchon because he wants to leave EU too, a supposed left wing guy, he’s a fraud and a mole seducing the right-wing with islamophobic shit.
 
Also Asselineau and the UPR close to far right…
 
No, we need the EU. I want to defend it, it’s ridicule to cherish your own country like disregarding others.
 
We should do all we can to stop brexit.

Trump attacks EU  
Putin attacks EU  
Johnson attacks EU  
Swiss even and all the people angry at reforms or laws, far right and ex-left.  
We need unity. This should not be discussed.

@Background Pony #5AD0  
Now, with your points addressed I want to ask you this:  
How can the EU improve itself to where these Eurosceptics will reconsider their separatist nature?
 
It’s worth noting that a recent poll had at least 68% of the EU population happy with the status of the union but also around 50% of people felt that the EU may be going the wrong direction.
 
It’s also worth noting that both the Centre left + right groups in parliament took some notable losses in this years elections while the further left (Greens) and far right (Identity and Democracy) won some seats in parliament.
 
I think it’s somewhat interesting how centrism has become somewhat unpopular while the total opposites both gained some ground.
 
That says something, maybe the people are starting to get tired of half assed compromises that fully pleases neither side and want an absolute solution to problems.
 
(Also Brexit does seem like a bad idea and I hope it doesn’t go through, at least not in the case of no deal. Ironically some of the Pro-Brexit groups are using the Copyright Directive as justification to leave the EU even though the Pro-Brexit MEP’s voted in FAVOR of it. Yeah, if the UK refused it then it would’ve never been an issue today. UK certainly did the big oof which makes me hope that Brexit fails as a sort of comeuppance.)

@CaptainXtra  
Silence them. Dismantle their arguments, blind patriotism, selfishness, educate too. Not just in schools.  
‘But article13 is going to censor MLP episodes and fan art’ Hey okay but uh, there are more important things than memes and ponies in life, like another person posted here, we gotta accept, that’s all.  
Stop driving a SUV, use the bus, things like that. Stop with capitalist mindset, think of the future.
 
At a reunion we discussed aging of Europeans. Population become older and less dynamic, so we need new people, closing borders would be death for economy and diversity.

@Background Pony #5AD0  
To be honest, I’m not sure as to how much Fanart will be hit by the Copyright Directive.
 
Most Fanworks tend to be in the style of that particular artist which differs from the source material.
 
I mean an upload filter that doesn’t do a good job at context isn’t gonna likely be competent enough to connect this:  

 
Or this:  

 
And possibly even this:  

 
To this:  

 
For all we know, you could probably get away with drawing the characters as long as it doesn’t resemble what could possibly be interpreted as a screen-cap by an incompetent filter too much.
 
So I’m thinking that the Directive won’t outright KILL fanart altogether but it’ll definitely make any future fanart vary from the show’s appearance quite a bit.
 
I could be wrong but hey, that’s just my two cents.
 
Also memes are said to be protected under parody within the final text, how well they actually do at keeping true to their word is another matter.
 
Also that “other person” was clearly you, you’re not fooling anyone.

@CaptainXtra  
The problem, violating copyrights is no way like, enforcing socialism or equality.  
Copyright or ruining a business is bad for people and impacts the prices. Even the left defends copyrights.
 
I’m all for communism, but you need to pay the creatives or nothing happens. No more Netflix or Amazon or music or series! So I understand why we need some regulations. Piracy is not communism.

@Background Pony #5AD0  
The world you want to live in honestly sounds horrific. I like mlp, I like fan art, I like my gas guzzler, I like memes, etc. It sounds like you want to strip away all individual rights and give 100% power to government and corporations.

I do like artists and this community! I love the fandom! But I never pirated a stream or even follow 4ch*n stuff and links to get episodes before everyone else when I can watch them legally.  
Is making profits selling merch morally right? No it’s not, it impacts business and customers.  
Why again should artists raise prices based on there skills or popularity instead of having a standard that impacts nobody? This is a capitalist mindset where consumers and fans are impacted. And that’s not social.  
Conventions should have been more open for this, it’s nice to invite VAs writers and all but selling merch of their stuff in front of them and give a little to a charity is a joke. I say staffers should decide where this money goes, and profits should all go to charity. This could have saved the series making it a social event more than just a product.  
It’s sad people think all like business.wo.men, we could have had a solid politics view in the beginning, and a more fair distribution.

@Background Pony #5AD0  
Communism is against the concept of private property, including intellectual properties.
 
Copyright is a capitalist tool.
 
You can’t be a communist and support private property simultaneously.
 
Stop cherry picking.
 
How have the mods not banned you, or at least tried knocking some sense into you?

@TheMagpulPone  
Okay wow sounds like you and CaptainXtra didn’t learn anything from a show about sharing, love, tolerance.  
Being against corporations is silly since you need things from corporations, your phone, mlp, internet, google, etc. Derpibooru is itself a corporation, and a government to control both market and regulate and ensure everyone can live without fighting eachother or leaving some on the corner…

@CaptainXtra  
What rule did I break? I expressed my opinions. I think everyone should just have equal rights, equal opportunities, and if you love to draw pony, just get hired to work for Hasbro. you love Marvel, get hired to work for Disney, etc.  
Copyright protects content, if we achieve communism, you will be have the safety of being paid and live off your passion. For this, sorry, but you need also a minimum of copyrights, or a non communist country will pirate your stuff, you then get exploited.

@Background Pony #5AD0  
This is all I have left to say to you.

@Background Pony #5AD0  
I didn’t say you should be against corporations. I said you shouldn’t give them so much power that you strip away the rights of individuals.

@Background Pony #5AD0  
My God. Are you for real? Have you ever tried getting your dream job? You don’t just walk into Marvel or Hasbro and get hired.

@Background Pony #5AD0  

 
So you’re pretty much saying you’re against fanart?
 
Oh and like how China makes tons of bootleg MLP merchandise (including using fanart)?

@lonewolf  
I’m for a more equal distribution that respects creators. Not for capitalism, not for limitless sharing. Some control is necessary.  
Don’t bully me.
 
 
@CaptainXtra  
I’m not crazy I’m just weighing the pro and cons and want to find a compromise so we still can live in a socialist economy with lot of creativity and goods.  
We’re not wanting to regress back to the middle ages!

@Background Pony #5AD0  
Control over the not rich general populace that just want to share their talents is necessary? How so? What good is more regulation on something so innocent? You just want to make the rich richer and crush the average citizens underneath corporate control.

@TheMagpulPone  
Exactly, that’s as far away from socialism/communism as possible.

@TheMagpulPone  
Creatives or makers should keep some control, but see like, the EU works, it’s funding all cinema and a lot of series, the government helps the creatives so all that is affordable, and also can carry values, against racism or phobia, progress, equality, when a right-wing-ish american mega corp does what they want as long everything explodes with violence and stuff because it sells, while you can really have more creative diversity on opinions not just decided from a few rich people and business guys on a office who decides of all. There it would be funded by the people, a common effort, more like a programme to have content. Same thing can work with games, and software, so you can have photoshop and all animator’s stuff affordable to study and open schools.

@Background Pony #5AD0  

 
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You don’t think that you sound even slightly over idealistic?