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[–] 73 points 11 months ago (2 children)

All the mainstream media organizations have effectively capitulated to fascism, at this point. They can and should be fighting this from a 1st amendment standpoint. The only reason they aren't, is because this is what they stand for.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    The first amendment doesn't protect them from their advertisers. Unilever and coke don't want their names attached to anything that pisses off 1/3rd of the country. Its the same reason YouTube is so sanitized now.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This was apparently the FCC chair, threatening them with retribution. That is illegal.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Can we please stop pretending anyone who matters gives a single shit about the law?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago*

    Seems like the real issue is the conglomerate that owns the affiliates

    The stunning dropping of Kimmel comes mere minutes after Nexstar axed his late night show on the 32 ABC affiliates it owns out of a total of 200 stations throughout the nation.

    And, of course, Nexstar has an acquisition currently pending which needs FCC approval

    https://apnews.com/article/nexstar-tegna-newsnation-cw-trump-c1743d55103a809ea31c5c7c7c4c0c87

    I wonder how much $TRUMP the CEO of Nextstar owns....

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)
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    Unilever and coke don't want their names attached to anything that pisses off 1/3rd of the country.

    Hmmm, but which third is it that they don't want to piss off? Because they only seem to care about the alt-reich third of the country.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Colbert was the canary in the gold mine and canary #2 just dropped

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    And canaries #3 and #4 seem to already be lined up. From CNN's article:

    “Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social on Wednesday night. “Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!”

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago

    Snowflakes.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    As an outsider, it's utterly astonishing how fucked up your country has become in only 9 short months.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    It's always been like this, but it had a mask before trump that made everything happen slow enough to make people doubt that it was happening, so that it all can eventually seem acceptable; trump doesn't care about the mask and has accelerated it to a noticeable speed before everyone is ready to accept it.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago*

    If you're astonished, then you haven't read any history of the US.
    It's so much steeped in blood and so wildly capitalist
    that it's more astonishing that it was able to not collapse
    and keep a good image during the 20th century.
    It's saving grace is having the largest deposits of coal by far,
    but with solar power on the rise that's not cutting it anymore.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    title should call out Disney-ABC, not just ABC. It's important to connect the dots how few outlets there are and how they are aligned. Christofacist will not be any stretch for Disney, and they have a king background in war propaganda films.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    I expected him to have said something celebratory or at least making light of it. The only thing he said is that the 'MAGA gang' are capitalising on his death.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The key part to note is that the cancellation of the show did not need to be mandated by the state because the state represents the interests of the ruling class which is the capital owning class. The capitalists who own the network made a political decision to cancel him.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Its also to set an example that no discourse is allowed because all Kimmel did was point out that Trump didn't seem to care much about Kirk by posting that video where he is asked about Kirk and he starts rambling that he is happy that there is a lot of trucks hauling stuff for his saloon.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Fuck every one of these network stations. Why do they even still exist?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This will be there end. They'd rather have fascism than stay in business. Same as the Democrats would rather support Israel raping people instead of stopping fascism. But not us. Fuck them and fuck this.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I hope but look at all the corporations that just got bigger after Hitler

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    That was 1930s Germany. We, the radicals in the civilian population aren't the fucking people from Germany. We've studied this and know the counters. These corporations won't grow. New ones, new factions will grow.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    So who's the next late night host? Kid Rock? Rob Schneider?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    It’s not even about Kirk. It’s about calling out Trump for being full of shit. Trump got asked about grieving Kirk, said he was fine then began talking about trucks starting construction.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I didn't think the USA would be stiffling free speech consideri this is the fredom they try to export all over the world.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    This is because the corporation wants a 6 billion dollar merger. This is the only reason in fact.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It's political correctness. We're fucked.

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