“The FCC chair is clearly undertaking an effort to bully and intimidate independent journalism, which is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes where democracy is under siege,” said one critic.
Considering how quickly NPR prostrated themselves to Trump as soon as the FCC inquiry started I’d say the press isn’t all that free.
Sad day for everyone.
I can’t wait for all of the republicans at work to be told what to think. I’ll enjoy hearing how they try to sell me on PBS being biased.
I’m usually not big on hate and it seems like a lot of wasted effort. And I can generally understand where people are coming from even if I don’t agree with them.
But not this guy. I fucking hate him. I have never hated a person more in my entire life. He is the most useless piece of the most vile excrement and I will relish the day he is “shuffled off his mortal coil”.
Him and Elon need to go. Yesterday.
Honestly Elon scares me a little more. He’s not a complete moron (don’t get me wrong he’s close) and can easily manipulate the other dude.
In my opinion, I’m not sure this country will last 4 years of this. I had forgotten the daily rage I felt in his first term and this seems worse. And we are less than three months in. And god forbid RFK is confirmed and we have another pandemic. It will not end well.
We are less than three weeks in.
Yeah I meant to type weeks. But it already feels like months so I guess my brain “corrected” it.
This is part of the reason the Covid years felt so long and dissociative
Trump is destruction and retribution.
That’s all he’s been doing.
He also sells off all the broken peices of our society to his rich owners.
well, yeah … and we all told you this was going to happen while the major print and broadcast media “both sidesed” trump and republicans for the last 8 years
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wait a second, were these the same “pro palestinian” “protesters” calling the incumbent democratic president “genocide joe” and telling people they weren’t going to vote for him, while marching in every american city and taking over college commons across the country during the spring and summer of an election year, chanting “from the river to the sea”? democratic youth vote was the lowest on record this last election, while the republican youth vote was the highest, more arab and latino americans voted for donald trump in the last election than have ever voted for any republican candidate before in us history.
donald trump won his second term by 2.3% of the vote
congratulations, not only did you make jews terrified, eschewing 100 years of bedrock jewish support of the democratic party, you ensured the return of someone without an inkling of concern for your issues
and we told you this was going to happen while they were doing it, the stupidest shit i’ve ever seen in my life
Important side note is that the entire pro Palestine, genocide joe movement was clearly a psyop started by Kremlin goons, and people ate it up. Moscow wanted their boy back, and did all they could to get liberals on the pro Palestine movement by planting seeds onto gullible peoples minds to not vote based on this issue without pointing out the fact that Trump was far worse for Palestine. People need to realize that Moscow (and others, but mostly Moscow) intentionally mislead people online. You can’t just assume the hot takes you see online are even from a real person. Most of the crazy shit online is coming from people who are spending 8 hours a day trying to mislead you. It’s just so sad to see the Internet weaponized in this way. When we were kids, we were so excited about being able to play games and communicate with people around the world. We thought this would bring us together, and instead, Putin and co have weaponized it. There’s no way to get away from modern yellow journalism in the comment section without destroying free speech. It’s fucked.
There are idiots in the Palestine movement who didn’t vote, but there are plenty of people who voted for Harris too, myself included. It doesn’t take a psyop to see that a genocide that’s being live streamed is a genocide.
Sure, but allowing this shit stain to become president clearly wasn’t the solution, and the entire idea of abstaining from this election FoR PaLesTiNe originated completely online in troll farms. Anyone can see what’s going on in Palestine is genocide. It also has been for a really long time, and the US had the same position for like 50 years. The fact that it came up 6 months before an election and was in our face nearly nonstop and practically disappeared overnight is telling.
Agreed on everything except your last sentence. I argued with people all of last year saying what you’re saying. There were pretty quickly protests and rallies, off the top of my head I remember going to rallies in November 2023, January 2024, and June 2024, and people are still talking about it. I went to an event last weekend too.
I do see idiots both in real life and online who are clearly more interested in fighting the Democrats than actually helping the cause though; right after the election I went to a rally at which someone said she’ll work with anyone who wants to fight the Democrats, no mention of the impending dictatorship, and got applause, and it really put me off of my local activist scene.
Real people are dying. That’s not a psyop.
The US is providing munitions. That’s not a psyop.
You’re kidding yourself if you believe there is nowhere else in the world that Israel could get weapons. There are solutions to stop the genocide, but they’re in Israeli politics and international pressure.
Yeah, and Trump wasn’t the solution. Palestinians are going to be significantly worse off now with Trump in power. Again, the psyop was getting American Democrats to abstain from voting to help Trump. It worked.
For more information, google “useful idiot”.
Protest voters were a strawman and did not meaningfully influence the election.
But lack of turnout did
The person you’re responding to is either a foreign actor or gullible enough to believe the foreign actors and repeating their talking points. He does this a lot. Thanks for calling it out.
So, no blame to the prior-candidate for not listening to those protests? Or the followup candidate who agreed with the prior?
I like how it’s somehow non-voters fault even though they made their position abundantly clear. They’re literally one of the only groups I don’t blame. They told everyone repeatedly that they wanted an end to US support for Israel’s genocide. Biden didn’t do anything, and Kamala made no significant promises to end it.
Obviously Trump wasn’t going to end the genocide, but continue it. But the point was taking a principled stance against an administration that could do something and did virtually nothing. When your options are genocide or genocide, and that’s your main issue at the polls, of course you won’t vote.
Also you’re the person yesterday who was lying saying there’s no genocide in Israel. You never did reply to my comment after yours was removed.
Edit: If you blame non-voters as much as Trump voters then you’re the problem in leftist politics. You’re the reason why their is so little unity in leftist spaces. Rather than find your communities or protect your people, you lambaste non-voters and cause greater division. People that had very legitimate concerns about a very legitimate genocide. Maybe you should try and look at the bigger picture of how this happened. Instead of blaming people that were very clear from the very beginning about where they stand.
So they sat home and let the worst of the options take control.
They cant really say genocide is their biggest issue if all they did was make it worse. Because that is what they did.
Did they make it worse? Legitimately, what did Biden do to stop the genocide outside of claiming to stop sending bombs that his administration still sent anyways? Seems like it’s the same as it ever was in terms of the genocide.
I have no idea how you can blame non-voters when Biden held all power and still did absolutely nothing for his or Kamala’s campaign.
Removing sanctions, allowing the biggest bombs to be sent to Israel again, starting deportations of pro-palestine protestors
You have to be lying or must be blind if you don’t think that’s worse
Biden was still sending those bombs during their administration. So no, the genocide is pretty much as supplied as it ever was.
They made it worse because now its spilling over into the us.
Immigrants are being shipped to Guantanamo Bay, and trans folks are being erased from federal information.
And you ask, “How did they make it worse?”
What a stupid fucking thing to ask.
In regards to the Israeli genocide. Reading comprehension helps, so I’d use that if I were you. And what exactly did Biden do to stop Trump from doing literally any of this? He could have had Trump arrested and that would have been that since he’s a president and it’s an official act.
Then, when he was polling terribly after his first debate, he forced Kamala to be the only option for the Dems. The Democratic party didn’t even have a democratic primary. And somehow this is voters fault?
And what safeguards did Biden/Dems put into place to protect immigrants or trans people huh? Oh that’s right, absolutely fucking nothing. Because they don’t care about trans people or immigrants, they’re just talking points for Dems.
You can blame people with principles all you want. But Biden did nothing about Trump for 4 years. Everything that’s about to happen is on him. And in the future his name will be spoken in the same way that James Buchanan is.
The non-voters are just as culpable as directly voting for Trump.
They were so concerned about a genocide in another country that wasn’t going to change regardless of the election outcome, they ushered in genocide to our own country.
They are not. And this is an excuse to take responsibility from Biden and his administration. Trump should be in prison But Biden’s administration was the one tasked with doing that and did fuck all. Even when the Supreme Court gave him absolute power to do anything as president, he still didn’t bother to arrest Trump.
Democrats in power don’t actually give a shit about the issues they pretend. And those that would vote for them are tired of excuses.
Republicans have been working toward this current result for years - sowing doubt in journalism, disenfranchising voters that they know are unlikely to vote for them, stacking courts so they can counter the inevitable legal pushback. Democrats failed to stop this, but blaming them for these issues is disingenuous - they didn’t design this mess.
You’re in a car heading toward a cliff, complaining that nobody has pulled the emergency brake. Yet the driver, whose foot is firmly planted on the accelerator, who fights anybody else who tries to touch the controls, is absolved of responsibility.
To clarify - the “driver” isn’t merely Trump, but the result of the practices stated in the first paragraph. Any suitable puppet would have worked. The system has been rigged, and it isn’t the Democrats who did it.
This car has been heading towards that cliff for 8+ years now. Meanwhile I, and every other voter and non-voter are in the trunk. Unable to do anything outside of shout from the trunk what we want. Short of breaking free there’s nothing that can be done. Those that can actually stop the car won’t bother.
They are. We all knew the dangers of Trump getting back into the Whitehouse. It hasn’t even been 2 weeks and he’s already well on his way to a fascist takeover of the government.
If you really thought that not voting was helping Palestinians at all, you’re really fucking stupid and actually made things much worse for them.
The Israeli genocide is awful, but it wasn’t even in the top ten major issues facing our country.
Again, if Palestine was your single issue that caused you not to vote, you’re a moron and in every way as culpable for the damage he does as his supporters.
Erroneously passing the buck onto principled non-voters doesn’t address Biden or Democrats inability to do anything during their tenure about Trump. And as of right now the Israeli genocide is as armed now as before Biden was in office. You can look at my other comments for sources.
You can feel however you want. But ultimately those with power failed you. And if you thought voting was going to save the US you’re incredibly naive. The fascist streak in the US was never going to end with Trump. What we’re seeing now is horrifically inevitable. Simply because those in power did nothing to stop it.
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way to prove mine
Your point was that voters are morons?
So it’s the media’s fault for normalizing fascism, and the fault of the people who pointed out that there was only one other option, but not the fault of the people who made the choice not to support that option?
Fucking hell dude, that’s some hard spin to avoid any responsibility for choosing to enable this.
“I am concerned that NPR and PBS broadcasts could be violating federal law by airing commercials,” Carr wrote. “I have asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, with assistance from the FCC’s Media Bureau, to initiate an investigation into the underwriting announcements and related policies of NPR, PBS, and their broadcast member stations.”
Such an investigation is long overdue. My local NPR station broadcasts nothing but commercials.
I listen to NPR all the time and I have never once heard a commercial.
Is this sarcasm? Sponsorships are not the same as ads.
It’s got to be. Listening to NPR has spoiled me to the point where I can’t listen to regular music stations anymore because of the commercials.
Not sure what practical difference there is between a sponsorship and an ad. Anytime I try to listen to my local public radio, each and every segment starts off with “this report brought to you by …blah blah blah…”
Do you never listen to any other radio stations? You know, like pretty much every other radio station out there that has a good 3-4 actual fully-produced (and often highly irritating) radio commercials every 15 minutes?
Also, please explain how public radio is supposed to survive without corporate underwriters. Especially now that the meager amount of federal funding they get is about to be taken away from them.
sadly, nothing new-- the last administration was directly funding and covering for israel’s extermination campaign- well over 200 journalists killed in the last year… but yes, this is more of the same in a more domestic and less murderous sense.
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i expect to get ratio’d for bringing any semblence of balance to the discussion here. i’m no trump apologist, but democrats still have a lot to answer for, too.
i’m no trump apologist
Yes you are. Anytime you say ‘both sides are the same’, you’re just excusing the ways this administration is making things so much worse.
The Democrats suck, but saying they’re both the same despite drastic differences in magnitude is carrying water for trump to minimize the changes they’re making.
no, i’m not. i’m sick of the democrats only having energy when they’re out of power-- they chose to support genocide and bypass democracy to appoint their defacto choice for successor.
Yes, you are. It’s fine to take them to task, but don’t minimize the shit that’s going on now with that dismissive and objectively incorrect bullshit. It makes you look ignorant and uninformed about things when you incorrectly say they’re the same when they’re clearly much worse.
But whatever, I’m sick of arguing with BoTh SiDeS bullshit people. Bye.
Oh they’ve taken a step further than ‘both sides are the same.’ In order to support their argument, they are claiming in another part of this thread that Gaza has no people in it. They are actually trying to claim that Israel has killed literally every Palestinian in Gaza (presumably with Biden’s help) in order to avoid blaming the current administration for anything.
I’m really not surprised, these people didn’t seem super honest from the start. I’m just at the point where I call people on bullshit and block when they try to justify accelerationist or cryptofascist shit.
E: LOL mfer is tried to tone police the conversation when you called them out. Good on you for keeping on these people and showing just how unserious and obviously trolling they are.
You’re making the mistake of assuming these trolls are arguing in good faith.
i’m not minimizing, i’m asking for you to hold your own party accountable as well…
They literally called out the dems several times in their comment and they never said they wouldn’t call them out.
They take issue with you saying that both parties are the same when clearly one is worse than the other.
To really try and cement this in your brain.
BOTH BAD, ONE WORSE.
You see how Trump is already giving Israel larger bombs. That’s worse for Palestine right?
we are like 11 days in and have already become more officially fascist than not, and you think the painfully tiresome wHaTaBoUt bullshit is “balance” because you say it is? GTFO
well, you can just downvote me, i guess. free country, innit?
Yes, 5 day old account.
soon it will be 6. then you cannot say such things!
For now.
i’m no trump apologist,
Yes you are
can i call you a genocide apologist ? i assume you call yourself a democrat and were pulling for kamala to continue biden’s heinous legacy… feel free to correct me on this, its just an assumption after all (man enough to admit that)
I’m not concerned with your assumptions, only what you’ve told us here
lol… not willing to back your horse publicly?
I’ve stopped with this stupid game of defending myself against random accusations. Tagged you as BoTh SiDeS
And why do you feel balance is the most important thing right now?
“the most important thing” excuse me? don’t put words in my mouth.
Because it’s the only thing you mentioned. Don’t take me for a fool.
yes, isn’t that funny, they’re both corrupt parties run by criminals! imagine that, some agreement here.
We were all telling you that one of them would be worse for Palestine than the other. And that’s the dude giving Israel bigger bombs.
Let me ask who you voted for.
He’s giving them the same bombs that the last guy was.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-sent-israel-thousands-2000-pound-bombs-since-oct-7-2024-06-28/
i’ll be the guy to admit it since you’re all cowards about your obvious support for the neoliberal war agenda, i voted third party… i voted jill stein- please spend your energy attacking jill stein, now, you muppet.
So you voted Jill Stein taking votes away from the democrats which in turn gave the presidency to the republicans who are factually going to be worse for Palestinians.
I’m not even American I have nothing to be a coward about. My own government is also complicit in surrporting Isreal (UK).
see, i have a different take-- the democrats lost my vote. period.
Thanks for sharing your different take. 😞
“bigger bombs” gaza is completely destroyed… as well as the innocent civilians they targeted… that happened during biden’s presidency… biden the self-proclaimed zionist.
Please do tell all the Palestinians still in Gaza that their lives are so meaningless to you that they do not exist.
Because that is what you’re saying right now.
according to your warped interpretation. i know what i’m saying and i don’t have the memory of a goldfish, sorry.
Your words:
“bigger bombs” gaza is completely destroyed… as well as the innocent civilians they targeted…
Is it completely destroyed along with all the civilians or not?
Folks? This is the imperial boomerang. What we do overseas comes home!
Israel is the laboratory. What they test there will come back to us eventually. Do not be shocked when Trump drone strikes a “migrant caravan” or something.
