Matthew Haughey @mathowie@xoxo.zone I hate to say it but our canary is now Jimmy Kimmel. If anything happens to him in the next four years, we've hit full blown fascism and need to leave the mine immediately

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[–] 129 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Dude, your "canary" is decomposing at the bottom of a gas-flooded mine. That ship sailed months ago.

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

    The tweet was from last year.

    So they're doing pretty good, all things considered.

    The canary is very dead.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    Right? We've had a flock of canaries go in and never come out. Let's be frank it's been a long time coming:

    • Kimmel
    • Noem v Vasquez Perdomo
    • DC
    • Colbert
    • PBS
    • NPR
    • Roe
    • Affirmative action
    • Net neutrality
    • Citizens United
    • The Patriot Act

    At some point we gotta stop thinking they will ever come out.

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    [–] 95 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Canary? The tunnels are collapsing

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

    Bloomberg Opinion Section: "Total Tunnel Collapse Could be a Sign of Tunnel Instability"

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

    They have literally taken charlie kirks death and used it as a means to attack left leaning people from all walks of life.

    • This is a full blown government takeover of the American media
    • They're forcing left leaning people out of their jobs in almost every industry.

    And what makes this even worse is that it is so blatantly obvious that the info surrounding kirks shooter is almost a complete invention of the trump administration. The ridiculous bullets. The note that magically disappeared. The text messages that sound as if they were written by a 55 year old....

    This country is so good and truly fucked. It just so depressing and sad. And even more depressing because it seems like no one is really even trying to fight back.

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

    The "he was fired for talking about Charlie Kirk" narrative is a lie.

    He was talking mostly about the Epstein Files.

    2 days ago
    1 day ago

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  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    He was fired because that was the plan when Colbert was fired. They literally said he was next.

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

    Okay but why in that way - during the taping of a show? That doesn't seem very "planned". That seems like a desperate rush.

    Over the weekend would have been smoother. Hell, just about any other way would have been smoother.

    They gave Colbert another year.

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

    Someone in the administration (not Trump obviously) is smart enough to know to strike while the iron is hot. Use the Charlie Kirk killing to justify all kinds of shit that they want to do anyway while they have an angry army of supporters to shout down anyone who dares to speak up against their actions.

    They were always going to declare antifa a "terrorist organization." They were always going to come after Kimmel. They were always going to put democrats on lists to be investigated. The MAGA anger over Kirk's killing just gave them the opportunity to speed up the timeline and they couldn't let it go to waste.

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

    Colbert getting canned was a test. They saw they could get away with it, so now gloves are off and off Kimmel goes in one night.

    Everything they do is a test to see if they can get away with something. If they do, they ratchet up to the next horrendous idea.

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

    I don’t doubt they wanted to gauge reactions. I doubt ABC was part of that in any way.

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  • Sorry I can't gauge your sarcasm I just watched Anne Rice bullshit. So just in case:

    When asked by Jonathan Karl at ABC News asks

    What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she’s gonna go after hate speech? I mean, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech

    Krasnov responds

    [I] should probably go after people like you, because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they’ll come after ABC.

    And a few days later an open loudmouthed and funny critic of Krasnov gets fired at ABC. No connection whatsoever.

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

    Most disappointing line in the sand ever.

    Ten years ago was the time to flip out about fascism. I can't believe some people are still telling us "wait for it...!"

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

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the best time to flip out about fascism is ten years ago. Second best time is today.

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

    We deserved better. We deserved bernie. I blame hillary clintons ambition and the dnc at the time for trying to force her through. Bernie would have beaten trump the first time.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    If you're trying to split the difference between finding a specific contemporary individual to blame versus blaming an inherently flawed democracy that contains the seeds of its own destruction, you could do worse than the DNC top brass of the last decade.

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

    Government full of actual Nazis. Clearance Thomas fireselling Supreme Court decisions. Blame Hillary Clinton.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I blame her because they put their thumb on the scale of a democratic process. The 2016 primary race was very contenious. The clinton campaign not only used their insider connections in the dnc to directly help her campaign (they are supposed to be agnostic in that process), they also ran a toxic campaign that put off nearly half the base. So much so that a guy like Trump could win in the first place.

    I blame them because they were so fucking reckless in their pursuit of power that they lost to these clowns. The real choice was bernie or trump, and when bernie was no longer an option, people went trump

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