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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The right is Woke and has embraced cancel culture.

At least that’s what I’m going to say as a response to all this bullshit.

Let them try to explain what woke is and defend cancelling people’s jobs and livelihood over a twat like Charlie Kirk.

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

    Woke is the wide-eyed understanding of how systemic racism and prejudices disenfranchise you and others. Woke is knowing the system has been slanted against those it is meant to serve and working to fix that. Woke is not a bad thing, and these chuds don't deserve the label.

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

    Yeah, the term doesn't really fit very well, it doesn't mean "censorial" or "authoritarian" although no doubt can be those things.

    "Woke" is the left-leaning equivalent to the right-leaning term "redpilled" when you think about it.

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

    What? It fits perfectly. "Woke", as in eyes open and not asleep at the wheel. Able to see the injustice around you.

    Has the term really been so warped by bigots that people don't know what it originally meant?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Carr: “Turn your license in to the FCC, we’ll find something else to do with it. In fact we already have the perfect show lined up, it's called My Struggle. Sean Hannity will be the host and he'll just yell into the camera."

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's only a matter of time before the mouse gets too angry and will bite back

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    [–] 115 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    "Carr appeared yesterday on the radio show hosted by Scott Jennings, who describes himself as "the last man standing athwart the liberal mob.""

    One of the biggest things that pisses me off about the current, and really long-standing conservative narrative, is how they try to market themselves as the underdogs. Oh poor me, I'm the one strong soldier against the evil hordes of liberals!! Like, bro. You're the chair of the FCC. You're shutting down shows with no resistance. You're all getting everything you want, You've been getting everything you want all year long. That's not an underdog type situation. It's so deranged to be the literal people in power and yet still talk endlessly like this. Last man standing?! What about the literal majority of the country that voted for Trump?

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

    One of the biggest things that pisses me off about the current, and really long-standing conservative narrative, is how they try to market themselves as the underdogs.

    They get a HUGE assist from the very same "liberal media" the far right attacks all the time. For decades. That's because the "liberal media" never really was a thing. They are the same picture, just on different points on the spectrum that's almost all on the right.

    Sure, a few outlets allowed, or did allow, a few things that acted as release valves. Like a few identity politics things, or satire that pokes fun of conservatives. But that's mostly on the margins.

    When it comes to narratives - the one that has been hilarious to me, but they've been pitching it since at least the 90s is that they are the true counter-culture (the 60s still really pisses off conservatives, even ones that were born long after the 60s).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    If they hated the 60's counterculture they don't wanna see what counterculture we're gonna make

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

    Well, I sure hope so. Right now it seems younger generations might be even more captured, but I guess we'll see.

    I had a lot of hopes for my generation (Gen X) since many of us saw the hippie-to-yuppie thing and thought many boomers were selling out and cashing in as they entered the workforce, but that our generation had punk and zines, and a real DIY ethos and we'd carry the torch forward with a lot of that hippie sensibility, but with a different shape - different clothes and music and designer drugs, even if LSD/cannabis were still prevalent - and armed with the 'net, which was just being opened up to the public (for commerce and that was the fly in the ointment) and maybe more McKenna than Leary, more Coupland instead of Kerouac, etc...

    And, well...you can see the results for yourself. I don't see that spark in Gen Y or Z or alpha, either, if I'm honest. I sure hope I'm wrong, though.

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

    It seems to be quite the opposite, despite the propaganda they want you to believe. For all the tacos man they completely ignore women, who have completely and utterly abandoned conservative politics, something no other generation woman has done on your own scale. Even among the men they still turn out for Progressive policy just not for captured controled opposition fake left parties. A lot of the support pillars that hold up the rights are crumbling and that's not turning around. We also can't economically sell out because it's not being offered. We're not being offered concessions and Investments to keep us in the system like homeownership, instead they're taking away every reason to care about preserving that things as they are

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Like I said...I guess we'll see. Gen X was accused of being the slacker generation, and by implication it seemed to be expected that we'd all just completely disrupt the corporate plans and the conservative movement would be essentially DOA when it came to our generation.

    We anticipated getting royally fucked over as many of us were entering the workforce just as a recession hit and we saw all the downsizing/rightsizing/offshoring/outsourcing taking place and screwing boomers. Turns out, our generation was working much harder than the boomer media gave us credit for, and I don't think we were nearly as politically astute as the boomers were. At least some of us watched boomer-made content and instead of realizing it was skewering such attitudes, they thought it was aspirational (Wall Street, Scarface).

    I think we'll have a real good first indication of where Gen Y and Gen Z are going as the largest wealth transfer in history really starts getting traction. (We'll also see what having Larry Ellison run a platform like TikTok will do, as well). Will Gen Y/Z/alpha finally fund and build something to counter the radical right wing noise machine, for example? Or will they mostly fall prey to working on amassing even more wealth than prior generations using that historically epic wealth transfer as seed money?

    Knowing human nature and having heard similar sentiments about my own generation...I know where I'd place my bets.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    We aren't.getting a wealth transfer. It's all getting sucked away by reverse mortgages and PE owned nursing homes

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    They're assuming we're gonna get it and the healthcare industry won't get first, which in many cases they will

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm pretty sure if people are doing calculations like this, they are factoring things like that in. In any case, it's not like younger generations don't work in the healthcare industry too - that money would have to go somewhere.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    This is the only way their base understands things. They have been told for decades the immigrants and "blacks" were stealing their jobs or MIGHT take some of their jobs.

    BAM instantly racist and hate immigrants because they were told to do. It's always been this stupid game with conservatives.

    They need to always be losing to "Democrats and liberals" to keep up the charade. It's sad and they are all crybabies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This is something I think Tucker Carlson gets. These right wing pundits thrive on the victim narrative, and when the FCC chair exercises his authority to shut down media explicitly in the name of if being leftist, it ruins their schtick.

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  • [+] 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The idea is to have everyone self censor themselves.

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

    Wow, so appeasement didn't work? Hold on, I have to go call Chamberlain.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I see what you are referencing, but Chamberlain was by no means just an appeasement puppet. Great Britain wasn't ready for a war at the time so that was a way of pushing the inevitable war further back so they were better prepared. British intelligence was pretty aware of the situation

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    This is 100% petty revenge for Rosie O’Donnell being on the show and making fun of the diaper-in-chief, like, 20 years ago.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago*

    Do it. Finish shooting your stock & your approval rating in the head.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    ++ I DONT LIKE THE VIEW BUT THEY CAN PRY THAT SHOW FROM MY COLD DEAD BUTTHOLES ++ I AM ALSO RUNNING A LITTLE LOW ON OUTRAGE STEAM ++ THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER ++ I WILL REFUEL TOMORROW WHEN A NEW SUPPLY HAS BEEN SENT ++ APOLOGIES FOR THE LACK OF PUNCTUATION PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING AS OR AS NOT NEEDED , , , , , ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ++ P DOT S DOT DAISY HAD PUPPIES ++

    times like these i need good music. this feels right tonight, especially if we sub in "DEI" for "integration". it was my favorite grandpa's favorite song on his favorite jazz album.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    I wanna see a wine mom revolution if The View gets taken off air. I know three women who LOVE that show and make it a legit part of their routine.

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

    Doesn't The View have right wingers on it? Or is he just pissed that there is a black woman with a voice on TV?

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

    Probably has some fat, old, black and/or generally un-bangable (in Taco's eyes) woman/women on there, who also have opinions. In other words, "nasty woman/women". See also Taco's long-standing obsession with Rosie O'Donnell.

    That should be enough to qualify as something that needs to be taken off the air by this maladministration.

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

    wasn't Whoopie on there for a while? didn't krasnov have a beef with her too?

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

    Yeah she is still, I think. And yeah, if Orange Jesus has an issue with her, it tracks - opinionated Black woman and someone he thinks is unfuckable.

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

    It's been a very long time since I've paid much attention to the show (which is not the snarky sideswipe it might sound like) but I thought it was a very, very liberal-centric (note I did not say left) show with (IIRC) one token conservative host.

    I could very well be wrong though.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Oh look at that. Kowtowing to fascists didn't work. Who would have seen that coming?

    Bullies do not stop-- especially once they see they can push you around. Dumb fucks.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Capitulation doesn't make it go away.

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

    I'm Canadian but most tv and films I watch are American. I'm very upset that Trump is gradually ruining American television. In a year, I might be out of things to watch from the states.

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

    This is a lot like when Disney fired James Gunn after an astro-turfed right-wing campaign (spearhead by Mike Cernovich) convinced them that there was genuine outrage over some tweets he'd made a decade prior. Disney fired Gunn, there was a huge public backlash in response, and the entire Gaurdians cast threatened to walk. When they finally tried to rehire him, he was working for their largest competitor, which caused them to delay Gaurdians 3 by several years, and now Gunn is pulling DC studios out of it's nosedive as Marvel is tanking.

    Anyway, this time is a little different, because they're clearly bowing to authoritarian government pressure as well, but they clearly misread the publics mood on this once again. It's super weird that this billion dollar company keeps doing lasting damage to itself because it thinks Twitter is real life.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Let's just cancel this group of women saying things we don't like because reasons.

    And the war on women rages on unbeknownst to the masses.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Woolie bully. woolie bully.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    LOL, another favorite show of Orange Jesus.

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  • Do it. Shut them all down. Americans absolutely love being told what they can and can't say.

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  • [+] -36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    While I hate The View, Trump is a fascist fucking clown. Hillary and Kamalama gave us Trump. Bernie was just a psi-op to funnel people back into the military-industrial complex.

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Yep, good job Disney - now you've shown that you'll roll over so they're going to nitpick you to death.

    "A lot of people think there are other shows on ABC that maybe run afoul of this more often than Jimmy Kimmel," Jennings said. "I'm thinking specifically of The View, and President Trump himself has mentioned Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers at NBC. Do you have comments on those shows, and are they doing what Kimmel did Monday night, and is it even worse on those programs in your opinion?"

    "Kimmel wasn't that bad and you cancelled him - you definitely have to cancel The View now!"

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

    Remember when Disney absolutely destroyed any attempt by Desatan to regulate what goes on within their property? Where is that moxie?

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

    That was back when they still assumed the courts would back them up on 1st amendment terms. There's no guarantee they will now.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The FFC Chairman directly threatening them over speech is a clear violation that about any court would stand against. Yes, even this SCOTUS. They make surprising rulings all the time, though many of those are merely letting lower court rulings stand.

    A court goes into a given case only interested in the facts about that particular case. In this one, they would be presented with the evidence that Kimmel was speaking against Trump, at worst. Couldn't be more clear cut.

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