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I can’t speak from the British Commonwealth perspective, but from a Swedish perspective my opinion is this regarding having a monarch:

Yeah, it might not reflect our modern values well, but since the (Swedish) monarch is mostly ceremonial and completely unpolitical, there’s actually quite little to hate about it. They’re just the mascot of the country. There’s far more pressing issues in our country than having that confused old guy as head of state.

At least he doesn’t possess nuclear launch codes.

Oh no I’m so sad

When people say “Korea”, they probably mean the south one (unless they’re a fan of Kim Jong Un).

And boycotting Russia hasn’t really stopped their aggressions

The Apollo program lead to some everyday inventions that has improved the lives for average people. Working on tough technical challenges can result in unexpected discoveries and inventions.

They can only vote on CCP approved candidates. Also, 50% of the votes are allocated to big corps like banks.

Their election system is a joke.

CC is a great alternative for some cases, but far from all. Most artists want to protect their work, and CC don’t help with that.

How much Creative Commons media do you consume?

Open environments are way more productive and creative then lock stuff for decades.

Source?

The idea of copyright and patents is to ensure that you can get compensated for your own work. There’s no point in creating a unique idea when Disney can just copy it and take all the money for themselves.

There are flaws with how copyright and patents are implemented, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamentally broken. The alternative would be much worse.

Mickey Mouse is no longer as relevant in Disney’s dominance anymore. They got bigger cash cows to milk.

Please list all communist governments that did not turn to be authoritarian

TIL China is not communist.

China is communism. It might not live up to the all the rainbow unicorn fantasy dreams of a system where workers owns the means of the production and all the yada yada, but it’s communism.

Ask the average Hong Konger if they prefer the capitalistic system they were in before or the communistic system they’re headed towards. Most I know prefer the former.

Wait! I forgot they don’t have free speech anymore.

I don’t think Sean makes as many public appearances anymore, so probably safe. But who knows what he will do.

How is that going to help artists getting paid?

Seems like they’ve fixed it now, but there was a time when they had proof of stake without withdrawal functionality

Haven’t checked it in a while, but is it still impossible to withdraw staked coins?

That’s basically it, except everything is darn expensive.

No amount of oppression justifies raping civilians.

Bad analogy. Death Star is not a civilian target.

Sadly it won’t. Peaceful options were already slim before this. It likely won’t end until Israel has destroyed Hamas.