This is fucking insane. Of all the things in the new stimulus, this one is just nuts.
They basically are bailing out Hollywood I guess for suffering from the pandemic and bad economy. Now copyright laws are about to get even more insane.
This is the kind of shit we get with "tough on crime" Dems.
Revolutionary socialists would be in a much worse position right now if these governments had gone in a social-democratic or neo-Strasserite direction instead and actually delivered the goods to shut up their domestic workers like they did in the '40s and '50s. The bald-faced hubris on the part of the imperial core's ruling classes makes it easier for us to make the case for revolution.
It also makes it so that organizers are found dead in the US, or that my words are getting more and more likely to be monitored with every day passing. But I guess that you're right, westerners are slowly waking up from the illusion that they were something more than human resources for the capitalist meatgrinder.
If none of us are in any danger we're all probably doing something wrong, even if doing the right thing typically includes taking measures to minimize the risk of harm to ourselves and comrades. Also, organizers have already been found dead in the US as recently as the previous decade.