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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by burnt-resistor »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #173

I am largely neutral on this particular assassination, as I knew almost nothing about Mr. Kirk prior to his departure (just name recognition & basic political associations). But I do think, after decades of reflection, that comedians are correct when they point out that stereotypical humor shouldn't be off limits to any performer (of any background/color), but is... e.g. Owen Benjamin, Chappelle, Seinfeld .

Assassination is stupid and counterproductive, even if the subject was a shameless, ethnonationalist supremacist who said mass shootings were the "price to pay" for 2a, because all that blackpill bozo did was turn him into an "innocent" victim, lionized martyr. Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing.

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Post by kelnos »

PaulHoule wrote: post #74
ceejayoz wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Have you been in a coma for that decade?

I first saw a moral panic over ‘cancel culture’ circa 2013 from The Atlantic and the opinion page of the New York Times . (The first because it’s demo is the naive liberal and pearl clutching parents of college students and the second because folks like Brooks and Blow don’t want to be canceled themselves). It was until 2017 or so that conservatives noticed the phenomenon and started to talk about it in The National…

Cancel culture has been a thing a lot longer than since 2013. McCarthyism, anyone? Funny how cancellation has historically been wielded by the right, but once the left gets a few (comparatively minor) cancel-jabs in, it's a Real Problem.

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Post by discordance »

shirro wrote: post #466

Kimmel discussed the political response to Kirk's death, not the man, which is a class move that respects his family and the law. I can't see the problem. How many companies, media people and politicians need to bend the knee before someone stands up and says this has all gone far enough?

> I can't see the problem.

lese majesty /s

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Post by burnt-resistor »

DangitBobby wrote: post #295
throwmeaway222 wrote: post #249

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I'm not seeing much evidence of his political leaning (other than his choice of target, of course). Can you share some of this evidence?

There is little evidence for right or left ideological adherence, but there is for independent accelerationist blackpill from the memetic dog whistles. Accelerationists are essentially terrorists who want credit for mass destruction, collapse, omnicide, and suicide.

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

rajup wrote: post #390
apstls wrote: post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should Fox, Newsmax, OANN, Alex Jones, Tucker, Bannon, the deputy director the the FBI (in a prior gig, to be fair), the president of the United States (current & prior gigs), members of congress, MAGA influencers like Tim Pool, the company paying Tim Pool, the people paying the company that pays Tim Pool, etc, etc, etc, and etc, be allowed to?

Good question. Same answer to both. Glad we agree!

In your view, is that answer yes, or no?

I'd say yes, they all should be. The first amendment demands it.

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Post by kelnos »

rolph wrote: post #79
Computer0 wrote: post #52

Wow, I will have to check out his comments. All around me everyone is becoming more anonymous on social media, if not deleting it. It is fascinating to see the cultural reverberations of this motivated killing!

before attributing all to one event, consider the straw that broke the camels back.

When a liberal is attacked or killed, the right blames the left. When a conservative is attacked or killed, the right blames the left.

This is just the exploitation of a tragedy in order to consolidate more power and win more political points.

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Post by wsatb »

sparrish wrote: post #392
rolph wrote: post #113

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"Noem is bragging that she shot the family hunting dog because he was "worthless"; all he would do is "massacre chickens" at her hunting lodge, and tried to bite her. She also put down a "disgusting, musky billy goat" that lived around her compound. She said wanted to come clean and show how she can "responsibility". She bragged that the story of shooting her dog got her the top slot at ICE." this is so chillingly re…

Have you ever lived in a rural community? Putting useless or malicious animals down is merciful and common place and definitely not the making of serial killers.

> Putting useless or malicious animals down is merciful and common place

Maybe that's part of the problem? You kill what you consider "useless" or "malicious". Noem killed a puppy.

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Post by hellisothers »

troad wrote: post #379
RF_Enthusiast wrote: post #293

I’m at a loss of what to watch as far as television goes in the US, between the government threatening to intervene in content, corporations that own television networks with little regard for journalistic integrity, and PBS downsizing. I’m pretty much exclusively watching NHK from Japan through a Roku app.

So, hear me out, books are pretty great! Lots of people say things like "I know I should read, but it's this whole thing ..." and then you find out they've been stuck on page 3 of Wuthering Heights for forty years, because someone convinced them they ought to be reading that, and it's haunted them from their night-stand ever since. Don't let anyone tell you what to read, pick up something that sounds fun to you, and…

First they came for the TV shows… I jest, they came for the books first

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Post by kelnos »

Waterluvian wrote: post #217

The left wing cancel culture era was stupid, annoying, and wrong, and this upcoming right wing era is bound to be much more stupid, annoying, and wrong.

"Upcoming"? The right has been practicing cancel culture at least since the 1950s with McCarthyism.

And there's a huge difference between someone getting cancelled due to social pressure, vs. getting cancelled because the government is trying to silence your speech.

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Post by wqaatwt »

lupusreal wrote: post #399
ProllyInfamous wrote: post #173

I am largely neutral on this particular assassination, as I knew almost nothing about Mr. Kirk prior to his departure (just name recognition & basic political associations). But I do think, after decades of reflection, that comedians are correct when they point out that stereotypical humor shouldn't be off limits to any performer (of any background/color), but is... e.g. Owen Benjamin, Chappelle, Seinfeld .

> I am largely neutral on this particular assassination, as I knew almost nothing about Mr. Kirk prior to his departure (just name recognition & basic political associations). This seems confusing to me. The default "neutral" position on any murder, most of all when you don't know much about the victim, is that murder is a horrible thing, is it not? Is that what you mean, or do you mean you aren't sure if this was go…

Well thousands and thousands of people are being murdered all the time. You (or anyone) couldn’t care less about almost every single one of them.

So why single out this one? I mean who cares about school shootings? One nutjob murdering another nutjob on the other hand…

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