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> There is a difference between ads and graffiti. One is voluntary and the other is not. To the one person who legally owns that space, there is that differenc
by mandmandam 4y ago
> There is a difference between ads and graffiti. One is voluntary and the other is not.
To the one person who legally owns that space, there is that difference.
To literally everybody else, the difference is that one is trying to make me buy some stupid shit, and one is trying to capture my interest by artistic merit.
> Thats an assertion you believe in. China has roughly 1/6th the global population, is communist controlled and has the same issues.
Oh? How many wars did China start for oil in the past 20 years? Did they spend 6 trillion dollars on interest alone for illegal "wars on terror"? Are they trending down, or up? How's their manufacturing base? ... And who exactly are they exporting all their cheap goods to, in a very capitalist manner?
And - please digest this fully - just because our late-stage capitalism has a hand in the issues I named, for us, that doesn't mean that I support China, or communism. That's so clearly a false dichotomy. I think it's an example of an artificial talking point, created by cynical think-tanks and spread by corporate media.
- cscurmudgeon 4y ago> To the one person who legally owns that space, there is that difference. Thats all that matters. Art is relative. Nobody is forcing you at gunpoint to buy stuff. > Oh? How many wars did China start for oil in the past 20 years? 20 is an arbitrary number. Look at Tibet, Indo-China wars, Uyghur suppression. I think we should revisit that statement when China acquires a blue water navy. > that doesn't mean that I support China, or communism No one said that. If you say only X is responsible for Y, then you should then explain why Z (where, X!=Z) is also causing Y. X=capitalism Y=horrors, real and imagined Z=communism