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[+] 336 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)
  • [–] 93 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    That’s offensive? I guess pointing out the obvious is just to much for them to handle.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The left also scrambled to say, "Not my guy!"

    Hell, I've seen people downvoted around here for mentioning the shooter had a trans lover/roommate. No idea if that's true, seems a little too pat, but I've read the alleged text messages.

    Nothing there screams fake to me, and this administration sucks at impersonating liberals, let alone Trump himself. They're hilariously obvious when they try.

    In any case, a Hitler Youth recruiter got blown out the neck from a 30.06 cannon shell. Fine by me, whoever did it, for whatever reason they did it. Just glad he didn't use an AR-15! :)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Nothing there screams fake to me"

    Are you wearing ear plugs, by any chance?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What do you mean? I always talk about "retrieving things" and "my vehicle". Grabbing things from "cars" (or "trucks" ) is for cucks, and I'm a macho alpha male™®.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It’s funny how absolutely true this statement is too. I’ve seen so many headlines over the past week about what political affiliations he might have. And we really still don’t know.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    I was so certain that he was being cancelled over something else that he said, but no!

    I watched the whole video here and that was it! In addition to some regular dunking on Trump about how he was in the 4th stage of Denial, Construction.

    This is absolute insanity.

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  • [–] 151 points 1 year ago

    Mocking Donald Trump as well, Kimmel said on his show Monday: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

    That is so tame. And accurate.

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  • [–] 88 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Extra crazy because he didn't even speak poorly of Charlie or say any distasteful comments. He didn't even really make a statement about the situation at all. He just said MAGA is trying to categorize the shooter as not them and played some clips of Trump being 100000x more interested in the new Whitehouse ballroom than the public assassination of his dear friend.

    You can't cancel someone over comments they didn't make. This is pandering, plain as day. Same reason Colbert got canceled.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Colbert cancellation was more clever. There are numbers that they could point to (though others that paint him well). They gave him a few months to finish things out. It was temporally too close to the merger talks but besides that the façade could’ve been worse.

    This time it’s a nakedly anti-1A FCC. :(

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I do hope some reality tv stars speak out. It's a win/win either some networks grow a backbone or we get some trash off tv.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    John Oliver's gonna have one hell of a field day on sunday

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You know what they say, "Field day on Sunday, deported on Monday."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Wait..

    Who says that?

    Isn't John Oliver a US citizen?

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    This must be this famed "free speech" that JD Vance lectured the Germans about when he visited Munich.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    Whoa, that’s fucked up

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Wow, now they are just pulling whoever without a real reason or even a pretext.

    It is cancel whoever we want because we can.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well I mean what do you expect? it's a fascist country, that's what facists do.

    you think Nazi Germany allowed anti-party rhetoric or even anything that they could consider remotely offensive to them? no. they got rid of those people.

    Americans, please don't allow yourselves to become more Nazi than you already are.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    You only get in trouble for telling the truth.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” the host said.

    Wild watching free speech crash and burn in American. This isn't a company pulling him for his speech, this comes as a direct threat from the government regarding his speech.

    FCC Chairman Brendan Carr:

    “Frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, we can do this the easy way, or these companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

    One's opinion on Kirk's murder is the litmus test. You one of us or one of them? The administration is excelling at not letting a tragedy go to waste. Where were the Democrats when the Minnesota legislators were murdered? Nope. Seems the left is too fair to spin propaganda. And that's why the fascists have won. It's over. They've won.

    Get armed, learn and train, defend yourselves even if it means your personal extinction, not an easy path. In any case, hunker down and wait for history to eat them. Gonna take some time, always does, and evil always eats itself in the end.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Jimmy should run for office now. I don't think Jimmy Kimmel is some kind of saint but they put him in a place of power by pulling his show.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Colbert is the one well placed, to dust off his satire schtick after a maga conversion on his own channel.

    He should quit the network early and start, the colbert reported.

    Kimmel idk, but these networks will find conservatives have no sense of humor and cannot drive ratings. If they censor things the right cries about no one will subscribe to their dogshit streaming platforms.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The satire schtick won't get Colbert elected. Kimmel is charismatic and likeable with his own personality. No point in chasing conservative votes; just get liberals excited and showing up.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'm not saying for Colbert to run for office, I just want him to dust off his satire bit, I think he has way more effective at that than he has been as a establishment Democrat cheerleader.

    But since we are on the subject, I do want to see Jon Stewart as the Presidential nominee in 2028, at the head of a host of Reform minded candidates be there Progressive or other flavor of candidate matching their constituencies, that do not think people should be as fucked by the super rich without their consent.

    Because that is almost everybody electorally. Red State and blue. And the only way to win here now is with a massive electoral Landslide and even then it might be hard to overcome the Party Machine fixing the elections every way they can.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Could you imagine an entire administration run by talk show hosts.

    Kimmel, Colbert, John Stewart.

    I'm not sure they'd do a good job or that they'd even side with the public with issues or avoid bribes, but they'd be charistmatic AF.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Despite them being good people it would defacto be a step closer to Idiocracy.

    We want leaders who've built a career doing things.

    Speaking truth to power is an entirely different skillset.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I fully agree in concept, but i fear our career politicians (even the best ones) are corrupted or at least working complicately in a fully corrupt system.

    I don't think that talk show hosts are the answer. Although, Stewart at least is 100% up to speed on political matters which is more than I can say about some presidents.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Doing things doesn't necessarily mean politics. Could mean education, or administration, or front line work. Real life experience that qualifies someone to be in charge of things.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This isn't even cancel culture at this point. It's a violation of our rights to free speech.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Direct threat from the administration:

    “Frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, we can do this the easy way, or these companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn't this that Cancel Culture™ that MAGA's always talking about?

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    America will no longer exist by 2026 at this rate.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    He didn't even say anything other than the truth and played videos of the president himself ignoring the death and talking about his stupid ballroom that he was bribed with.

    I refuse to deal with republicans who ignore these blatant fascist moves the adminstration makes. We would have had a normal country, but no. Project 2025 and the heritage foundation couldn't have that, so they bought donald the presidency and got elon to fund the campaign.

    It's only a matter of time till people are arrested for talking out against donald trump and the fact he is a POS who ignores all law and order.

    But many of us would rather be locked up than bow down to a pedophile.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We need to stop thinking that catching right-wingers in their hypocrisy and exposing it is actually going to achieve something. They know they have a double standard and that they get the clean end of the stick from it. They like that, and want more of it. They know they're doing cancel culture and are anti-freedom of expression. The belief that they might suddenly have a dawning realisation that they've been hypocritical and two-faced and will thereafter either shut up or change their ways is leftist 'pornography plot' daydreaming. We need to accept that they're unashamedly cunts who want non-MAGAs to be second-class citizens in every way possible. So trading blows with them on Twitter and posting gotcha "this you?" screenshots of them saying the opposite shit about George Floyd or whoever is just wasting everyone's time.

    Voting is all there is, and that's not a good state of affairs to be in. But it's something you can actually work towards, at least. If you don't intend to vote against them, there's really not much use in complaining when they do their usual reprehensible shit like cost people their livelihoods because they weren't adequately-deferential towards a dead bigot.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You can't win by playing nice is there are no rules for the other side. There is no democracy left in America, and there will be no fair election in 2028 whether Trump is still alive or not.

    Anyway, Tyler Robinson showed there is another way. Am I saying Robinson specifically is a good guy? No. But realistically, evil leaders and administrations have been stopped by good guys fighting back with violence, and then stopping when the goal has been achieved and returning to peace. The difference between good and bad isn't non-violence and violence, but restrained violence to achieve the goal of peace and violence as the goal itself.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Lmao, I don't like him, but that's pretty fucked. I don't see how anyone could view this as anything but harassment and intimidation. They really want a new civil war don't they? Accelerationists are eating great lately. That should scare the shit out of everyone, left and right included.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah I also dislike Jimmy Kimmel but his comment seems super tame

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    capitalists are so scared of gov influence affecting profits they’ll bootlick instantly when uncle sam pretends he’s upset.

    this is all just the pot starting to boil with us in it.

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    tHe PaRtY oF fReE sPeEcH

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    9/10/2025 the death of charlie kirk making fun of nazis.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cancel your Hulu and Disney+ if you pay for it

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I just want to say publicly that Charlie Kirk was a Nazi piece of shit

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is wrong but fuck ABC. Go start some independent media and get a huge following. Fuck these networks.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Get ready for further change with the ongoing reshaping of the media (e.g. oracle). This is not looking good.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    But I thought Elon said comedy was legal now 🥲

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Dear USA, fight for your rights. What's happening now reminds me of what happened to Baseem Youssef in Egypt: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27671642

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can talk about how hot underaged actresses are on radio but you can't speak the truth, well how about it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    ABC = Disney = the mouse

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    "New lows? Hold my beer."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    And the Fourth Estate crumbles once again.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    9 months after showing Knocked Loose on national television they finally found a reason to cancel him.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    there goes your freeze peach Muricans

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That's what happens in fascist countries

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    How is bro's face so small

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    Free speech doesn't mean free from consequences. Or is it different now?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Well, I'm no American, but US free speech means freedom from consequences from the government, doesn't it? This was directed by the FCC, which is the government.

    But I'm no American, what do I know?

    (It's embarrassing that non-Americans know the rights of Americans better than Americans. As designed by the powers that be.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Constitutionally yes, assuming US context.

    Outside of that it's case by case depending on context.

    Stating that megacorps pulling this cowardly shit is well... Cowardly isn't complaining that they are doing something illegal it's just pointing out that it's shitty.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago*

    so who wants to crowdfund a buyout of nextar and sicnlair media groups? I ain't got that kind of pull, but i'm good with numbers. could ensure everyone got an ownership share proportional to their contribution

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