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

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Curious if you feel the same way about dual citizens?

I don't see how they are relevant.

Well what’s the difference for you between a foreigner and a non-foreigner in this situation?

I presume the difference is that the foreigner has different incentives than the non-foreigner. Let me know if you had something else in mind.

For the foreigner, it may be acceptable to harm the interests of the non-foreigners if it helps the interests of the foreigner, because the interests of the foreigner are not tied to the interests of the non-foreigner. The foreigner lives somewhere else, and so if the conditions in the non-foreigner’s territory worsen, the foreigner is not necessarily harmed by the worsened conditions like the non-foreigner is. And, the foreigner may even be helped by the harm to the non-foreigner, i.e. they may not just be indifferent to harm, they may actually benefit from it (if for example the non-foreigner’s country is a competitive threat to the foreigner’s country).

In the case of dual citizens, they may be harmed like the non-foreigner, but unlike the non-foreigner non-dual citizen, the dual citizens can much more easily leave if the conditions worsen sufficiently. So the incentive structure for dual citizen vs non-dual citizens is of a lower intensity but a similar quality to the incentive structure for foreigner vs non-foreigner, I think. What do you think?

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I don't see how they are relevant.

Well what’s the difference for you between a foreigner and a non-foreigner in this situation? I presume the difference is that the foreigner has different incentives than the non-foreigner. Let me know if you had something else in mind. For the foreigner, it may be acceptable to harm the interests of the non-foreigners if it helps the interests of the foreigner, because the interests of the foreigner are not tied to…

There simply aren't enough dual-citizens to make this matter in reality. And dual citizens are still US citizens, which is much better than complete non-citzens owning shares in media companies.

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About 28% of the people who voted in November 2024 are over 65. https://www.kff.org/state-health-policy-data/state-indicator...

I think people typically flip the causality here. People's voting isn't determined by their media habits, but rather their media habits are determined by their voting. For instance in these cable news discussions, Fox is often a huge target. But if you covertly turned Fox into the NYTimes tomorrow, you'd have 0 impact on election outcomes. All you'd end up doing is creating a vacuum that'd probably be filled by OANN…

It goes both ways; there's a feedback. People start watching a channel because they're predisposed to agree with it, but when the channel constantly reinforces their biases, it foes from a slight predisposition to a strong opinion to an absolute certainty.

Fox News doesn't just give a conservative opinion on events, but constantly asserts that every other information source is wrong. Not just wrong, in fact, but a deliberate attempt to con them.

You're correct that eliminating Fox News would not, in itself, end that process. They've had decades to reinforce their views. It may well be inescapable at this point.

But OANN isn't as slick as Fox News. It doesn't attract people with a predisposition; it's more likely to turn them off. If Fox News were to disappear, and OANN expand to fill its space, it might eventually reduce the number of people drawn into that self-reinforcing mechanism.

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

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What did Republican appointees on the Supreme Court have to say about student loan forgiveness? Who not only fights tooth and nail against healthcare improvements but actively took money from existing programs to fund a national police and detainment apparatus? Which party produced the most meaningful (albeit not far enough) healthcare reform of the 21st century in the US? Those examples in particular are quite rough…

That was executive orders that got shutdown and its because congress controls the purse and they did not pass a law.

That certainly doesn't seem to apply to Trump

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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.

Where was it suggested that it caused a budget crisis? This started from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938121 which said "Proposition 13 limits property tax collection, which warps housing development and many other factors."

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> 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.

Maybe. I don't follow state politics that closely.

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

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Well what’s the difference for you between a foreigner and a non-foreigner in this situation? I presume the difference is that the foreigner has different incentives than the non-foreigner. Let me know if you had something else in mind. For the foreigner, it may be acceptable to harm the interests of the non-foreigners if it helps the interests of the foreigner, because the interests of the foreigner are not tied to…

There simply aren't enough dual-citizens to make this matter in reality. And dual citizens are still US citizens, which is much better than complete non-citzens owning shares in media companies.

This is a deflection.
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