Why the heck is this 600+ comment thread not on the front page?
it's on the real frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/active
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
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#612Earlier quoted context omitted.
MAGA did, in fact, do their best over the weekend to cast the shooter as anything other than one of them. Comments made in poor taste? Maybe? Not really? No poorer taste than the president saying on Fox & Friends that he "couldn't care less" about promoting unity after the Kirk shooting. Next point, from NYTimes article covering this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-... "The abrupt decisio…
Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.
From the government it does. Except for some "unprotected speech" carve outs, it literally does.
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#613I believe this is the clip in question? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk As much as I can tell, they're mad because Kimmel pointed out a couple of instances where Trump seemed to care more about his new ballroom at the WH than about the recent murder of Kirk. I've been reluctant to toss around the f-word, but it doesn't feel like an exaggeration to call this fascism. Kimmel said nothing that should have wa…
In that case, going by the FCC's complaint against Kimmel, I wonder if my pointing out that Trump furthermore skipped Kirk's vigil to go golfing, is similarly "too offensive to be protected by the first amendment"? https://people.com/donald-trump-misses-charlie-kirk-vigil-11...
I wouldn't go posting about that under your real name unless you want people pressuring your company to fire you on Twitter..
What a time.
Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#614Mel Brooks had the right of it. Fascism and Authoritarianism is defeated by satire and mockery. The ideology is too outrageous to survive any such scrutiny.
Why else would the administration be so afraid of a few jokes?
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#615Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see nothing wrong with people acquiring a left-wing political lens as a result of their own independent thought process (which, by the way, has nothing to do with universities, regardless of what the right-wing talking points you're referencing say; the shooter went to a trade school). And in any case, a significant majority of political violence is caused by right-wing extremists. Of course the DOJ just deleted th…
So earlier I took a look at the wiki list of Domestic Terrorism incidents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_Un... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207030 Over the last 40 years: 8/16 attacks on that list are linked to White Supremacists(Counting OKC) ~50% In the last 15 years, again about 50% are linked to White Supremacists and ~41% linked to Radical Islam.
Are you analyzing the list of "Notable Domestic Terrorist Attacks" on that page? Which has already been filtered by some criteria of notability?
A more complete list is actually prompted at the top of that section and is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_Stat....
However, you've possibly read that already since you're 41% number appears to be sourced from that page and is specifically talking about deaths and not events from 9/11/2001 to 2017. That 41% is heavily influenced by the deadliest event which was the Orlando Shooting, and if you look at the overall picture, 73% of events were perpetrated by white supremacists.
Honestly, directly reading the GAO study and the other, more recent, studies is a lot more illuminating and illustrates the growing issue of white supremacy and far-right political violence.
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#616Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody has provided any evidence that I've seen that the murderer was motivated by a right-wing anything, and frankly as the least logical conclusion it needs sources. I read that the person who turned him in (or an acquaintance) said that he was the only leftist in a family of hard right people. [Apologies for the lack of source; I read it as news was breaking and don't have the link] It's a nonsensical argument tha…
> If someone like AOC or Bernie Sanders was viciously attacked at an event, you can't tell me that you would accept an unsourced assertion that "it was actually a marxist that harmed them." So, first, both of those two (AOC in particular) have been the subject of extreme criticism from the tankie/accelerationist bits of the leftophere. It's 100% not out of the realm of possibility to imagine them being the target of…
The killer's family literally said he became very left wing...
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/charlie-kirk-assassination-w...
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#617All Star
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#618All Star
"...is the most iconic and timeless silhouette."
Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#619Why the heck is this 600+ comment thread not on the front page?
Probably penalized due to political themes being discouraged on HN. Which is IMO a bad decision. You can ignore politics, but politics won't ignore you.
Kirk's murder itself made the front page ... so we clearly don't always ignore politically adjacent topics here
Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
#620The summary at the top of the page says > ABC said it was pulling the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show off the air “indefinitely” after controversial comments by its host about the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. but the article says the following, which is entirely different: > “The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everyth…
The 2nd part is the quote from Jimmy Kimmel that he said on air that caused the "controversy", that resulted in the FCC commissioner, Brendan Carr to go on a podcast and threaten ABC/Disney with retaliatory action if they refused to take Kimmel off the air. CNN doesn't show a clip, but explains what was said & the events that caused this. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/business/video/abc-jimmy-kimm... Never believe t…
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