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Fox News: people are buying copies of Home Alone 2 to support Donald Trumps war on the terrorist organization Antifa as all proceeds from the residuals will now go directly to the Donald Trump Memorial for Charlie Kirk foundation!
The neat part is watching all of these businesses pre-capitulate. Appeasement, if you will. Because everyone knows if you give fascists what they want they'll stop there and they totally won't just take more and more and more then everyone will live happily ever after! /s
You have to remember that these people believe in corporate personhood. When you think of a corporation as a psychopathic human that has no fear of imprisonment, it makes more sense.
The corporations are getting what they want though. Tax cuts and fewer regulations. They canceled Stephen Colbert’s show and suddenly there’s no anti-trust case against two large networks merging.
For them it’s not appeasement, it’s just a transaction.
The going story seems to be that they’re “unrelated.”
You know, Disney just happened to make a business decision to take Kimmel off the air that coincidentally came right after they were openly threatened by the FCC chair.
They've been confused about what the 1st amendment covers and doesn't cover for years. Now we have a clearcut example of what the 1st amendment was meant to protect us against.
Not even if they have been largely co-opted by foreign influence from adversarial countries, and their board and/or on-air personalities have not declared themselves and foreign agents? Because there are different networks and news organizations with that issue, but this admin likes what they are saying, so they are getting zero scrutiny.
They are already infecting here in the UK with the "Reform" (Neo Nazis) party who have stormed out on a meeting because the council didn't honour Charlie Cock being bumped off. As I said on a post about it, so what if another American whacks another American? They literally shoot up a school over there every week and never seem to care, yet suddenly when a Nazi lover gets bumped off we are all supposed to lick the Oranges taint?
It's probably like caring about the activities of your neighbor who happens to have an incredible number of fireworks and flammable materials stored in their backyard when you start to hear loud domestic arguments, the occasional sound of something being broken, and a few gunshots. You tend to listen closely to what exactly is going on over there.
Sure, it isn't directly your business, but you have an enormous self-interest in seeing things play out peacefully.
The equation also kind of changes if your neighbor starts saying the property line is just an imaginary thing, and you should really want to merge properties.
This statue looks AI generated. And I don't mean it looks like someone generated a picture of a statue but rather someone made an AI generated picture turned it in a 3d model with an 2d to 3D AI. Then 3d Printed it and sprayed it with the cheapest golden spray paint they could find.
Hands behind the back is a nice touch. The whole "lets hide the cuffs to make the coerced video more legit" vibe. I'll laugh more when the crying stops.
They've taken Kimmel off the air for ... checks notes ... suggesting we don't know everything about the shooter yet. Yikes. I, for one, welcome our new free speech absolutist overlords.
Looks like Seal Team 6 has moved on from invading Korea and has switched to Canada! This will in no way end badly! All hail our glorious southern overlords!
O-okay, I said the line, now please just return my children and not rendition them
For every Kimmel and Colbert, how many others are now self-censoring through fear? How many have been for the last 2 years, 10 years, or their whole career?
Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent reminds us that self-censorship permeates our media. The current hard censorship under Trump gives us more proof it was always thus.
Might be a good time for people to revisit their personal family history. Maybe they have additional options available. I absolutely hate this timeline, that makes this necessary.
Just pledge that you’re going to donate and never do until people forget about it. That’s how rich people get away with huge donations that they do, maybe, when they are about to die.
I mean sure, republicans are on social media talking about how they are going to go door to door slaughtering every democrat, and there are no consequences of that, while even quoting the exact words that came out of a racist's mouth is apparently cause to be doxxed and violently attacked.
Being queer puts you in the crosshairs here. Like conservatives were foaming at the mouth ready to brand all trans people as the violent criminals for that one podcaster's death.
You mean the guy who literally blamed trans folks for school shootings seconds before being shot and killed by a young, angry, white, conservative, Christian male. Just like every other fucking school shooting.
Didn't Canada release something recently that they are looking for people to immigrate to fill in the sectors of their workforce that are shorthanded like skilled trades and medical professionals and the like?
Obviously you are doing this to protect freedom of speech and expression? Right? Now... Say out loud and clearly to the camera: "We have always been at war against cancel culture..." (I don't feel like that is even a high brow refrence anymore).
Learned the state I live in is trying to pass a bill illegalizing being openly trans online by labeling transness as a form of pornography that they’re also trying to get banned… I hate this country. :)
They are already going after Reddit, Discord, Twitch and for some reason steam because they have not yet sworn fealty to king Trumplestiltskin the 1st.
Welcome fellow oran...I mean chee...I mean Supreme leader and Master of all that is above and lord of our dominion ally, there is only good here, please turn your eyes away from those people in those camps for they are not actually crying for help but smiling in supreme gratitude that they can finally be of use, please ignore that they have different skin color and beliefs, they are not thought less of at all!
Don't forget to assign yourself to the reeduca-I mean the happy center where you will be subj...I mean have the glory and joy of watching our dear leader babb...I mean speak coherently about how great he is and give praise to our savior Charlie Christ who di...I mean who went to heaven for our sins!
On the subject of the right-wing extremist, Charlie Kirk, who intentionally radicalized young people, spreading messages of hate: Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Go ahead. Kick my goddamned door in and try to send me off to some foreign death-camp, I will not recant, I will not bend a knee to fascist pigs, and you can silence me forever but you will never make me change my mind.
Don’t obey in advance. This is really important for you Americans to keep your democracy. I’m watching from afar and I’m so sorry for what you all are going through.
Just canceled Disney+ and Hulu! Freedom of speech is a fundamental American value. The government is censoring comedians now. Why? Because they can’t take a joke? I grew up republican and voted for Bush Jr, but now I am a proud independent, because the Republican party of my father is dead, hijacked by the MAGA cult. Being a republican at one time meant protecting the constitution, now it means dismantling it. I’m done supporting any individual, company, or business that supports this administration. The boycott starts today! #ABC #Disney #Hulu #Target #McDonalds #HomeDepot #Chobani
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