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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.
re: your edit - perhaps people just think you're wrong because you're drawing false equivalences? No, no, it's everyone else that is wrong =)
https://xkcd.com/1357/
Except the FCC literally threatened ABC over this
Wow, Kimmel getting canceled wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card.
The government has no such right. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.
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The right is simply good at PR. People forget that they invented cancel culture. Dixie Chicks anyone?
> The right is simply good at PR One of the defining characteristics of the right is not placing any value on logical consistency. Being a hypocrite will not lose you any support with them.
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so far it seems the kid is friendly to trans, and loves guns, which fits neither lefty or maga labels. rushing to conclusion seems peak american idiocracy
Not sure we can confidently state how the shooter feels about firearms one way or the other at this time. As of right now, we know the rifle used in the murder was an x/years_old family heirloom that was given to the suspect as a gift but the police have not shared anything substantive beyond those details. We are likely to hear more about the shooters position on firearms at a more granular scale at trial as prosecu…
Idk should he be allowed to peddle unhelpful, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories?
Shouldn't most of Fox News be off the air then? And most podcasts, left or right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox...
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Kimmel didn’t even criticise Kirk. He’s a mainstream TV comedian and nothing he said “turned up the heat”. The reality is very simple: Nexstar wants federal approval for a merger. They know engaging in this censorship increases the likelihood of their merger being approved. So you’re exactly as jaded as you should be, just with the wrong target.
Nah, reality is even simpler than your conspiracy. These late night guys are money losers and they are looking for a reason to drop them. The fact that they nightly insult 80 million potential viewers with their arrogant and unneeded leftist opinions is bad for business. It doesn’t matter how Jimmy and his leftist writer feel, that’s their business they should keep out of the job. They need to maximize shareholder va…
Out of the two, “company wants to win favor with Trump for a merger” is actually the simpler theory.
Keep in mind that Kimmel has been hinting about retiring for a couple years now, his contract was up in the air, the "late night television show" category is evaporating (if there's still even a Tonight Show in 10 years, it'll be purely for nostalgia), and this sends Kimmel out in a blaze of glory. I think it's too easy to sort of anthropomorphize these kinds of conflicts --- Kimmel's show has a large staff, and he's…
Maher, like the Dixie Chicks and Garofalo, criticized a deeply popular war (regardless of what you think of it) and were ostensibly cancelled pre-cancellation era. The government didn't issue a statement through a right-wing podcast stating that the network better toe the line or get it's affiliate license revoked.
You are right, this has happened before. This is far more like the purges of the red scare. People were just (perhaps naively) hoping society had progressed from where we were ~70 years ago.