Also, it’s playing the song for money (donations), without paying royalties. Or, at the least, distributing copyrighted material.

Does your argument also extend to you tubers (or other platform equivalents) getting hit with dmca complaints because their use of background music implies the source of the music supports their video? If I make a video essay and use beneath the mask from persona 5, is the implication that p studio, Atlus, and Sega all support my conclusions, or that I found the song to be thematically appropriate for the moment to accompany my message, even if not what the original creator intended.

Similarly, can ramswamy’s use of the song not be considered in a sort of death of the author kind of way, where regardless of what Eminem thinks, ramaswamy personally finds different meaning in the music and shares it based on his own feelings of what it means? Because when I hear someone make a reference, especially politicians, I don’t assume that the reference’s author has pledged support to the cause, rather, the politician finds the content apt for the meaning. I don’t assume pokemon go is a diehard Hillary supporter because of her God awful joke, nor do I assume that Hajime isayama supports congressman Paul gosar just because gosar published an attack on titan meme.

This kind of thing, sharing creative works in your own manner because you personally draw meaning from them should absolutely be protected against copyright trolls. Copyright should be a tool to ensure creative can reap the fruits of their work. Not one to give creatives a legal monopoly of any and all discussion surrounding their work.

Yes, because it’s fucking 8nsane that copyright let’s people extend control over ideas this far

I don’t, but feel free to believe whatever cope makes you happy

Wow your right the website I originally pulled up was flat out lying saying he was anti billionaire etc.

I just looked him up. He’s hyper religious and anti-“woke”. He is an out of touch billionaire. He’s everything Republicans want. Too bad his skin tone is so dark, he’ll never make it past prelims.

Well it’s the GOP, some something to do with being a Nazi I would imagine (not that that’s a great policy, just saying that pretty much their thing)

I looked up his main platform goals.

Destroying public education by abolishing the department of education and banning teacher unions. Disenfranchising young voters because they don’t lean conservative, and allowing blatant discrimination again by getting rid of all affirmative action laws.

Oh yeah, the disenfranchising young voters would also implement a sort of literacy test.

He also seems to really hate Lyndon Johnson, not for starting the Vietnam War, but for passing the civil rights act.

He’s claimed (repeatedly) that black people were instantly fine after the civil war because they had the Second Amendment and guns, which is just wrong on every count.

Vivek is a bit too brown skinned for the KKK, but he sure does love their policies.

He’s got some other dogshit policy ideas, like solving climate change by burning more fossil fuels, and the standard right wing nonsense of banning speech he doesn’t like in the name of “fighting wokism”

The entire campaign seems to be an attempt to funnel money from said campaign to himself, while also promoting his shitty book on how he loves capitalism so much that he wants to prevent companies from making cynical “woke” PR efforts that help them do a capitalism.