Artists, like all laborers, should be fairly compensated for their work. The idea that love of art should necessarily come into conflict with fair compensation is a primary vehicle for continuing the exploitation of creative labor.

That is somewhat orthogonal to the issue of piracy, though. Some of the most strongly anti-piracy platforms out there are also absolutely terrible in terms of labor rights (hence the current strikes in Hollywood, for instance). It’s notable that in this case, the studio seems to be saying fairly explicitly that piracy is indeed not the main obstacle to fair compensation, such that no conflict between their stance and labor rights needs to exist.

While we’re mentioning Final Fantasy, I’d be remiss to not point out the whole FFXIII trilogy. I know it’s controversial, but Lightning, Serah, Fang, and Vanille are all really great characters.

There’s that, absolutely, but I also think a lot of folks making the argument that Biden did it too don’t actually believe the argument — it’s just empty words they can use to shift the argument away from Trump.

The fun part is being both parts of this meme — I’m Cassandra, or Xandra for short…

This is so obviously a blatant attempt to take Mr Trump out of the presidential running. And it is a sad day for our nation, considering that others, including Mr Biden, have been caught with classified documents in their possession.

The false equivalency has really taken root. There’s zero in common between the two cases, and yet it’s such a convenient excuse for right-wingers to fall back on when they’re challenged on their support for Trump.