Apparently all the people getting fired for being happy that a Nazi died didn’t matter to Democrats, but Kimmel is the red line for them. It’s less that they care about free speech and more that this is shatters their illusion of sensibility. They’re acting like this is the start of Trumps attacks when this is just the incident that actually woke them up. Companies and institutions have been bending the knee since the beginning and they didn’t say shit; these are now the normal rules of American business.
I listened to an interview on the radio recently that was enlightening in how little it said. It was a geopolitics analyst giving the most lukewarm condemnation of Trump killing Venezuelan civilians. He eventually admitted that no legal experts actually believed Trump had the authority to do it, but only weakly claimed we should “ask Congress if this is the standard we want going forward.”
Liberals have been so scared to even call Trump a fascist dictator, which I think is because they don’t want to accept how fucked the situation is. They don’t want to admit that their precious rule of law is dead and buried. They want to keep a semblance of normalcy alive, in part because it helps their financial backers, but mostly because accepting the horrors makes them feel responsible for actually doing something to fix it.
Liberalism didn’t die with a bang, but with a whimper.
They don’t want to admit that their precious rule of law is dead and buried. They want to keep a semblance of normalcy alive, in part because it helps their financial backers
It’s because they’re nihilists. They don’t have a moral ethos. These are the same people who installed a ruthless dictator in Chile to protect liberalism from the Chilean people. They believe that the ends justify the means, the ends in that case being to bring neoliberalism to Chile. They don’t believe in anything other than neoliberalism. Remember what Friedrich Hayek, one of the architects of neoliberalism, said:
At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power. As you will understand, it is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
The only thing that companies and politicians reacting the wrong way about Charlie did right was to finally show you who are the Nazis.
Anyone defending Charlie is a Nazi. I don’t care how they did it.
“Oh you shouldn’t kill people because of political differences.” Nazi because they didn’t say shit when liberals have been murdered.
I have a friend whom is upset in our group chat due to memes and proceeded to claim charlie wasnt even the bad racist guy the left paint him to be. He said he has a hard time sharing a group chat with people who would speak so harshly about an actvist he agrees with politically (there is a black member in our chat). I shared some of charlies quotes including “You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to be taken somewhat seriously” and he still tried to claim this wasn’t a racist statement.
His actions and personality don’t always line up with his political beliefs but its getting harder to keep him around. He & his mom has relied on welfare and our socialized healthcare their whole life (Canadian). He is part of the queer community and believes post secondary schooling should be free. But votes and supports conservative and is a bit of a trumper. I genuinely don’t get it. Both him and his mom would be homeless or worse if it weren’t for the social safety nets conservatives want to remove.
This issue for them is they think something more is owed to them. That deep down, they shouldn’t have had to rely on that welfare. In a better version of their lives, they would have the easy job that pays well. But the Democrats are the cause of their current circumstance.
Disillusioned people who refuse to compromise with poor critical thinking and too much pride got us here. That can’t be “fixed” in 4 years.
I mean, the only check on the president is impeachment, and they’ve tried they twice without success. There’s no legal or democratic options to stop him from doing anything at this stage unless he somehow manages to hand democrats a supermajority in the senate.
Exactly. The US functionally has a king now. The Republic has fallen.
Oh well. That’s it then I guess.
And yet, they aren’t organizing to win such a supermajority like anything depends on it. They aren’t conveying the urgency, aren’t working to reunite the party, aren’t even trying to be compelling controlled opposition. I think deep down they know they hold no power and will hold no power, but they’ll do anything to keep other liberals or themselves from admitting it. Normalcy is the only thing they have left, so they’re keeping it alive even as our god emperor tears everything in the country apart.
The only battleground that actually matters anymore is for local elections, and they’re doing everything they can to combat their arch enemy: the left.
I wouldn’t say that they aren’t doing anything. The number of letters we’ve received asking for donations to the party has sharply ticked up. They’re getting what they really want from the situation.
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Killing free speech
I can only hope EU carries that torch going forward and doesn’t bend the knee to US influence. But I have to admit, it’s not looking too good…
There’s too much money being invested in far right political movements, it will be hard to resist them.
Here’s hoping. There was strong public backlash at the bending of the knee on the shitty trade deal so I expect a lot more push-back going forward.
Trump and his fascist army are the enemy. Are you part of a force or a partisan. Either way they are not going to win. As a fascist you have to control too many people. An anti-fascist controls themselves
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
I don’t think that’s the answer because this is coming from Sinclair and the FCC’s threat that ABC can do it the easy or hard way, and if hard, then the FCC is going to have some more work to do (paraphrasing).
We need to petition ALL the networks AND Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple and get them ALL to put up a message on all stations and networks for a day that basically says:
The First Amendment protects Free Speech. It is one of the things that makes the America great. The FCC has threatened to find issues with broadcasters who allow free speech on their platforms. We must stand together to keep America great and stand up for the First Amendment. Contact your members of Congress to make your voice heard.Hopefully someone can improve my first draft of a message.
More importantly, IF people think this is a good idea, please pass it on to anyone who can get the message out of this enclave and into wider distribution.
This is the answer at the current juncture. This is Disney caving to pressure. Force the regime to do it the hard way. Make it unambiguous. Don’t comply in anticipation. Don’t appease the fascists. Make them exert effort and waste time and deal with the bureaucracy (such that remains of it, at least). Weaponize malicious compliance and inefficiency against the fascists. Resist, in all ways, shapes, and forms possible.
Don’t bother with petitions - they do not give a shit. Vote with your wallet. That’s the only thing they’ll listen to over their regime. And remember, Disney has Seriously Fucking Good lawyers - if they wanted to fight this, they would. Make them want to fight it, by showing them that the alternative is a collapse of subscriptions that they now base a large part of their revenue on.
Also, pirate more stuff 🏴☠️
That would be great if anyone of the billionaire owners had a spine left, unfortunately they don’t. So speak with your wallet, they might grow a spine when their stocks loose value - but not because they care about democracy.
Based on how little Paramount suffered after the 60 minutes/Colbert cave-ins, it is doubtful many people will see any reason to cancel subscriptions. If you only get the faithful to cancel, you are only hurting those you love and not the billionaires.
If the talent and the customers for various networks band together to demand a day-long media blackout, the billionaires might be persuaded to all do it at the same time as a power move to show the Government how independent the media can be. Billionaires might very much like to show that they are the ones in control and they can put whomever they want on TV, in memes, or wherever.
People like you are the reason the US does not have strong unions and labor laws and worker protections. Keep convincing yourself you don’t have any power to change anything. These things take time and endurance, there is no quick fix.
Comrade, please. I am asking the public to organize and make this demand. We tried cancelling when it came to Paramount, and look at triviality of that ‘boycott’. Look at the data. The only way people are going to see a reason to complain is if, “We’re gonna miss our favorite show!” So put that reason in their face.
