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After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The View (arstechnica.com)
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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 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.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

From the reporting even executives at Disney are pissed. It sounds like a few people, possibly one, made this shitty decision.

[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 15 points 15 hours 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.

[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 11 points 16 hours ago

Capitulation doesn't make it go away.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Woolie bully. woolie bully.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day 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.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day 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.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 113 points 1 day ago (6 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?

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're literally narcissists playing the victim.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

They're also heavily hypocrites. they say the left are just little children (that they probably want to fuck, tbh), that can't handle getting their fee fees hurt, when it is in actual fact them that can't handle getting their feelings hurt.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 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).

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 18 hours ago (1 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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours 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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

We need to stop giving them the privilege of setting the narritive

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, but someone was mean to him once. Therefore he is the victim of all victims.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

also sometimes you're not the underdog, sometimes you're the extremely unpopular minority.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day 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.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More censorship from out of control fascists

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The idea is to have everyone self censor themselves.

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[–] mystik@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DON"T GIVE AN INCH

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 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.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for your service, Rex Banner

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Theres more banana than kaboom! This doesn't feel like a very happy birthday.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR ++ REDO FROM START ++

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

++ GNU STP ++

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (5 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?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Someone needs to show him Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

unfuckable? psh. anyone who thinks that has awful taste in hats.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

We are talking about Taco, so.... 🤷

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thrumps shit touch ruins everything.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've had it with ICE proganda ads on CBS. Of course, I've always said CBS is the channel where you see BS

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