And so I have now cancelled Disney +. What a bunch of cowards. Over such a minor comment directed at Trump.
My Disney+ and Hulu subs just got pulled “indefinitely”.
Charlie who?
Do you have any source that says this is actually from Disney because you’ve posted this in a few different subs now and have never provided one.
Wow, this is great.
Coming soon: The Charlie Kirk Show! What- Too late? :-( #ripcharliekirk
the most shocking part of the news about his death was his age. how was this motherfucker not at least 46 years old
We all grew up with free speech. That’s what the USA has always been about. Now you have an admin who threatens and bullies taxpayers.
We all grew up with free speech.
Tell that to any Black American over the age of 65.
The USA was a political experiment started solely by white, landowning, 20-something slavers for the express intent of genociding as many Native Americans as possible. It’s time for us to stop trying to “reclaim patriotism” and realize the American poltical experiment has devolved into fascism and must be dismantled.
The thing that is kind of weird for non-Americans to understand is the way so many Americans seem to fetishise patriotism. Greatest country in the world! Freedom! Free speech! etc. We’ve all seen it all over social media for fuckin decades. And the praise for the military defending our freedoms! Seriously, when was the last time the US military was involved in a war that was actually in defense of America? It’s been a fair fuckin while.
Most of us have been conscious that there were probably a lot of Americans who didn’t feel the same way, especially those who weren’t white, straight, male, etc. All that stuff they were so proud of was the emperor’s new clothes all along.
For the sake of all the many decent people in America, and the rest of the world, I hope you guys can get a fuckin grip.
I see displays if nationalism from other countries all the time. We’re not less human than you and there’s something inherent in feeling pride or belonging to the place you come from.
Ok but you do see how 65 is getting up there in age, right? Like I’m sure there’s a few people here above that, and OP should’ve accounted for that in their statement. But the vast majority of us have in fact grown up in the last 65 years where freedom of speech in the usa has been well and truly absolute.
The USA was a political experiment started solely by white, landowning, 20-something slavers for the express intent of genociding as many Native Americans as possible.
People over a hundred years dead do not define the present of a country. Hell, look at Germany. Sure they have a small nazi party but the nazis were only 80 years ago and aren’t defining their present reality…
The political experiment line is just strange, seriously.
BOYCOTT ABC!! And send angry letters to cowardly execs who did this!!
Point of order. ABC is owned by Disney. Make of that what you will.
Everything makes sense now. Attached: Mickey marching with his swastica armband
people still watch network TV? That’s that thing where they force to to watch something at a set time, then play ads?
What was said? Can’t open the link.
Something along the lines of how MAGA is doing everything they can to show it was a liberal that did it, when we all know it’s MAGA.
(I know that Kimmel may be wrong, I’m just reporting what he said.) I’m pretty sure that’s the line that did it.
That’s also all I can find. I don’t see why they’d fire him for that; MAGA people have said far worse things, both in response to this shooting and on a general basis. Like the Fox guy who wanted to kill homeless people (and apparently people have already acted on that).
I don’t see why they’d fire him for that
Because the US is now an authoritarian country where the government controls the media.
Watch the monologue before viewing it becomes a crime. He didn’t even make fun of Saint Charlie.
He does make fun of Lord Trump though. Which, as we all know, is illegal.
President McDonald’s.
Now i wonder what John Oliver gonna say this week, or he gonna get censored by HBO as well?
Depends on whether or not HBO is seeing continually declining numbers of viewership. CBS, NBC, ABC those are all dying networks and they’ll do anything to stay on air.
Nah, let them die, if they’re so eager to kill their shows.
No argument here. Fuck network TV
Isn’t there a pending merger?
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No, this is pure capitalism.
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This is what I think too!
These are the death knells of dying industry, like Howard Stern leaving terrestrial radio in 2004, which was ultimately the result of the Super Bowl Halftime show when Janet Jackson exposed her nipple.
It’s literally the same crap. Something happens that people don’t like, and a failing media industry tries to stay relevant by clamping down, losing their talent in the process.
Back then it was shock jocks on terrestrial radio, now it’s late night and “cable” tv.
ABC and CBS didn’t get bought recently because they’re doing well, you know?
Sources: Howard Stern’s Wikipedia page, the “nipplegate” Wikipedia page, and having too much energy this morning.
and AM radio is now 100% ranting by old white men about widening the roads and taxes.
Which actually started this whole thing!
The 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine led to far more divisive radio hosts. So many political things started on talk radio, like the idea that the Clinton’s have a “body count.”
Rush Limbaugh was hired by ABC Radio in 1988, for example.
Prior to 1987 people using much less controversial verbiage had been taken off the air as obvious violations of the fairness doctrine. Wikipedia article
The Fairness Doctrine only made sense in the more limited media landscape of the past. It would also require all media outlets to do things like give platforms to white supremacism and such.
Thank you for this much needed perspective. While the FCC’s actions reek of overreach, ABC folding like a cheap card table just didn’t sit well with me. Especially considering how CBS’ parent company went to court first before cancelling Colbert. It makes a lot more sense now.
Especially considering how CBS’ parent company went to court first before cancelling Colbert.
…and settled. There was no verdict. They settled.
ABC also settled with Trump for “defamation” for $15 million.
If the networks were in a better place financially, they would have been able to fight the defamation case. See Fox vs. Dominion Voting Systems, which Fox ultimately settled in 2023 for $787.5 million right after a jury was seated.
Notice the difference. The former is a failing company’s (ABC) capitulation to a failing businessman because they couldn’t possibly go to court with someone like him. The latter (Dominion) is a successful business who didn’t back away because they weren’t desperate in the first place.
Yeah, I just wanted to clarify that it wasn’t a judge or jury that made them pay that. They settled.
Is your country great again? Was so difficult to vote for her instead to avoid this fascistic nightmare, wasn’t it?
Democrats bear almost as much blame for nominating “lesser-evil” candidates over someone who is actually good.
Donald Trump won because Bernie lost, twice.
Oh fuck you. This is a democracy with 300 million people, no one gets everything they want.
It’s not the Democratic party’s fault that a convicted felon pedophile is the president. The blame lands with you “both sides” dumbasses.
You deserve it for refusing to vote for a viable candidate. You don’t get to blame people who rejected a genocidal candidate, blame those who called genocide lesser evil.
Maybe when everyone is on the same page about rejecting evil, something will change. But no, you’ll downvote and feel self righteous about it as you cheerlead for another fascist (Newsom).
Have you been following the situation in Gaza? The idea that Trump was ever the “lesser evil” was always a dangerous delusion - especially when the alternative was so clear.
The U.S. two-party system leaves little room for ambiguity: if you didn’t vote for Harris, you effectively enabled Trump. Now, the world has to grapple with the consequences -rising far-right movements, rollbacks on LGBTQIA+ rights, the gutting of climate policies, and a surge in anti-immigrant rhetoric.
This isn’t about partisan bickering; it’s about accountability. The choice was straightforward, and the fallout is global. How do you justify looking away when the stakes were this high?
That slogan “Make America great again” made us Germans very uneasy from the start, cause we remember the last guy who promised us (very literally) to make Germany great again.
Where do you think Trump got the idea for it?
I’d assume it was Ronald Reagan since it was also his slogan in the 1980’s.
It’s pretty clear that Trump is a fascist piece of shit but this game he is playing has been going on a lot longer than people think.
Of course he got it from Hitler, who got the idea from America’s “Manifest Destiny” philosophy. It’s fascist turtles all the way down …
I know that Trump secretly admires moustache guy. But I honestly don’t think he is well-read or intelligent enough to realize it’s exactly the same slogan moustache guy used. With Trump, willful ignorance is always the most likely option because malicious intent requires a degree of intellect he does not possess.
I honestly don’t think he is well-read or intelligent enough to realize it’s exactly the same slogan moustache guy used.
Ivana said Trump kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by the bed. He definitely knows it’s the same slogan.
Well, I still doubt he read them all.
As a German native speaker, I have listened to almost all of the publicly available Hitler speeches, and I found it incredibly hard to keep paying attention. It’s as bad as Mein Kampf - just weird sequences of relatively incoherent segments of his twisted world views. Very hard to follow.
And Trump is well known for his extremely short attention span. I would be very, very surprised if that man managed to read even a single Hitler speech from start to finish in one sitting.
Underestimating him is how we got here.
No, underestimating the capacity of a large amount of idiots to recognize all the flaws of this unspeakably horrible person and elect the fucker nonetheless, that’s what got us here.
Cancel Disney+, Hulu, ESPN and your live streaming TV/cable sub if you have one.
https://help.disneyplus.com/article/disneyplus-cancel
https://help.hulu.com/article/hulu-cancel-hulu-subscription
https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40377589107476-How-do-I-cancel-my-ESPN-subscription
Y’all! This isn’t ABC - this is conservative Sinclair and Nexstar Media Group!
@Immarsano@lemmynsfw.com nailed this one by reading the article.
Nexstar Media Group forced ABC’s hand on this by saying they would run non-ABC programming on all their local TV stations they own. They’re in the process of getting FCC approval for a $6 billion deal that would give them ownership of 265 local TV stations in 44 states.
Meanwhile, Sinclair Media, which also owns tons of local TV stations, isn’t letting Kimmel’s rerun on Friday be broadcast anyway, instead showing a CK tribute show. So they were likely also going to do the same to ABC and just hadn’t said anything publicly because they don’t need deal approved right now.
This is the media version of Red-Stating, where state legislatures were slowly turned by the GOP which gave them the power to Gerrymander Dem-held House districts away and turn them red in 2021. How do you stop a global juggernaut liberal media company? You marginalize them by buying up all the local affiliates and stations that still make up a large part of their market. You buy up everything that sits in between the viewer and the media itself. Once the media company withers, you shove in your own programming as gaps open up.
of course it’s also ABC. ABC could have said “lol get fucked” but they bent the knee. And keep in mind ABC is owned by Disney who owns ESPN who JUST made a deal with notorious right-wing “trump buddy, buddy” company TKO to nickle and dime people to watch WWE shows. TKO the same company that is going to put on a UFC event on the damn White House lawn. TKO the same company that decided to cancel Wrestlemania in New Orleans in favor of take MORE blood money from Saudi Arabia and having it there instead.
They all connect with each other so saying one company isn’t to blame and another one is, is bullshit and you know it. ABC is as much to blame as Sinclair. At the end of the day they all bow to dear leader.
Take 1 or 2 big steps back here.
Conservatives have unlocked a massive weapon to control huge swaths of media and data transmission, including cable companies who still control a lot of internet infrastructure. Worrying about ABC is immaterial when compared to the fact that foundational telecommunications systems are under their control and they just learned they can wield that power with impunity to change what they see carried over those systems.
Or, hey, you know what, fine, you’re right - Disney bad, cancel Hulu for 2 months and I’m sure it’ll all work itself out.
Right? The number of calls Sinclair would have got when people can’t watch sports on ABC would have been insane.
So I did the next thing and cancelled Hulu live with ESPN and Disney plus.
ESPN plus might be a bit hard, my daughter loves college volleyball and it’s the only one that offers tons of matches to watch
Well, it’s ABC who don’t want to stand up to it
Because micky mouse doesn’t give a fuck about anyone except the dollar.
This is madness!
