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Re: FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger

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Post by NickC25 »

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #51
hdndjsbbs wrote: post #15

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It's funny to me that the average American is Islamophobic, but the US government sharply divides middle eastern countries based on alliances (and how rich they are). Qatari Emir? You're a friend of the US government. Poor Pakistani? Enemy. Lebanese farmer? We'll think about it.

It makes sense given a few things, although it's not as bad as you're saying: 1. The median American lives in a city and has exposure to Muslims and is most likely not Islamophobic. 2. Due to the voting structure of the U.S., people who don't live in cities and don't get exposure to Muslims get outsized voting rights. 3. Most American electeds are much more well travelled than Americans who don't live in cities. So b…

>, including Islam, are all influences on and in line with, traditional American values

My brother, in Sunni Islam practicing countries, they can kill you for drawing a stick figure.

Traditional American values include freedom of speech.

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Post by throwaway173738 »

AngryData wrote: post #133
unrelat3d wrote: post #58

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I don't understand how, given bullshitting the public about Making America Great Again has been the norm since Reagan, Americans are still so surprised to find ...oops it was all lies for votes! Academics like Zinn and Chomsky, popular music, movies, TV have been calling out the lies for decades. Americans are that fucking dumb, I guess.

It doesn't help that in many cases, even the "better" choice in candidate lies considerable amounts along with people and party that support them. It's not like we got the Truth Party versus the Liar Party, Its more like "Lies a bit more often party" and "Lies a bit less party" because both sides know propaganda works and uses it. And when you add in social biases there are enough lies to go around for either startin…

Give me an example of Harris outright lying, please.

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Post by throwaway173738 »

booleandilemma wrote: post #118
gib444 wrote: post #81

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Haha yes, sarcasm (I thought it was obvious enough but then again, I am a Brit.)

Lol! Hello from the land of guns and freedom!

They can have hunting rifles for sport. Red fallow deer are apparently a real problem there.

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Post by throwaway173738 »

pessimizer wrote: post #52
BowBun wrote: post #3

I don't understand how decisions like these align with the supposed "America First" rhetoric coming from the same side. Specifically - this deal is being led by the son of the president of the USA who was elected on promises of "bringing jobs back to America" and prioritizing domestic investments. Seems to me like they say one thing, do another, and all of us hold the bag at the end of it all.

> I don't understand how decisions like these align with the supposed "America First" rhetoric coming from the same side. Because that rhetoric has ended, replaced with H1B-love, Israel-first, "immigration needs to rise actually, because a lot of toilets need to be cleaned" and "we don't have enough money to worry about the population, we need to make war" and the administration spends a large amount of time attackin…

Buddy if you think dropping national guard troops into cities, militarizing ICE, building mass detention facilities, killing the NSF, privatizing education, building a ballroom and making us pay for it etc are things Bill Clinton or George W Bush would’ve done I can scarcely believe you were alive during those presidencies.

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Post by somenameforme »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #146
somenameforme wrote: post #25

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I don't think most people understand how the times have changed here. CNN's prime time shows get fewer views than a mid-tier YouTuber, literally. They hit Cable news is basically dead, but I think most of us missed the funeral. It used to be a relatively big deal decades ago, but those times are long since passed. [1] - https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...

> a mid-tier YouTuber, literally. They hit By "mid-tier YouTuber", I suppose you mean a top 0.00001% youtuber or thereabouts? Only the top 100ish with 50m+ subscribers translate to an actual audience per video of 1m+ (outliers notwithstanding), and you're comparing a US news network against an entertainment platform with a global audience of billions. I'm going to guess that CNN is still more influential to US politi…

I don't think your numbers are reasonable. Widespread use of fake subscription services distorts things but plenty of people get CNN level views with orders of magnitude fewer than 50 million subs. Here [1] is an account whose median view is CNN prime-time level. She has 186k subs.

Beyond that it's a power law distribution. Some guy who uploaded 1 video for a friend counts as a 'YouTuber', but obviously they do not matter in terms of overall competition. We're only talking about the channels that are regularly uploading content of some reasonable standard. And amongst that group - CNN level is very much in the mid-tier range, and I think that's being generous. There are currently about 70k channels with at least a million subs.

As for influence, I don't think news has much of any influence at all in US politics anymore. They blew it all by going hyper-partisan for the sake of views - moderate short to mid-term gains for catastrophic long-term consequences. Pretty much the standard of most US businesses now a days. In terms of confidence in institutions, television news now ranks lower than every measured institution, except Congress. [2] They scored 11%, Congress scored 10%. And that's with piggy-backing off the phrasing of simply "television news" from the poll, instead of just cable news. Broadcast news is going to score significantly higher in confidence than cable news.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/@andreabotezmusic/videos

[2] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.as...

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Post by gib444 »

booleandilemma wrote: post #118
gib444 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha yes, sarcasm (I thought it was obvious enough but then again, I am a Brit.)

Lol! Hello from the land of guns and freedom!

> and freedom

Haha sarcasm too!

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Post by encoderer »

ryandrake wrote: post #136
encoderer wrote: post #123

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You clearly have a low opinion of republicans. I do too! Where we differ is that I have a low opinion of democrats too. I see many dem partisans say how much better they are than republicans and overall I’m not seeing good governance.

Yea, I definitely wasn't clear: With (D)'s we see a spectrum from incompetence to uselessness, and bad outcomes from good intentions. With (R)'s, the spectrum instead includes malice, griefing, cruelty, and deliberate sabotage of governance. Neither are good for governance, but I know which one I'd rather have.

Yeah there are a lot of pathologies on both sides.

Democrats, for example, have loved to stoke the class war for the last 10+ years. Every week you hear a new take on how billionaires could solve homelessness or cancer or something if only they were taxed more. The left wing radicals are just as bad for America. Partisans hate it but the only true path out of this mess is centrism.

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Post by encoderer »

triceratops wrote: post #143
encoderer wrote: post #126

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You really think california localities have a revenue problem? Prop 13 dos not limit property tax collection: it changes the distribution of it. It means I pay 40x more than my neighbor and that is very dumb, but whenver the city needs more revenue they just raise the rates.

The problem with Prop 13 is not about its effect on tax revenue. Prop 13 is no different from rent control. It distorts the market and limits supply. If a property owner can't afford the tax on their land, it means the land is under-utilized. SFHs should be replaced by townhomes which should be replaced by multi-family buildings and so on. That doesn't happen because people who bought a house 50 years ago for a few b…

Yeah it distorts the property market. It doesn’t create a budget crisis as suggested.

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Post by encoderer »

triceratops wrote: post #142
encoderer wrote: post #40

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Where I live (California) there are basically no republicans in power. For a long time now. And we have more money and a better economic base than just about anywhere on the planet Earth. So to all the partisans out there who are sure things would be better if "their side" had total control, I ask: what the hell is going on with California then?? We should be modeling the best governance in the country and even the w…

> what the hell is going on with California then?? Only being the 4th or 5th largest economy in the world. California's own voters did the housing crisis to themselves by passing Prop 13. You can't pin that on any political party. I don't know who's responsible for the clusterfuck that is PG&E. Water supply and farmer water rights are another contentious issue. The seeds for that were sown in the late 19th and early…

I think we are so far apart on our world view that I wouldn’t even know where to begin.
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