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Re: Fox to buy Roku

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Post by anjel » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 1:47 AM UTC

airstrike wrote: post #252

thinkingtoilet wrote: post #244

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Not at all. I can feel very strongly about that, but if I feel more strongly about health care so tens of thousands of people don't die needlessly and countless millions more don't go bankrupt or get maimed from lack treatment, one is going to win over the other. That doesn't mean I don't feel strongly about it. Also, the 600,000 in Wyoming get the same two senators as the 40,000,000 people in California so it's not…

Like I said, not enough people care about it enough to push for legislation. And proportional representation is found in the House of Representatives. We have a bicameral legislature.

The Constitution simply states that representation shall be based on population but doesn't specify a fixed cap. The number of Reps in the House was frozen by the Congressional apportionment Act of 1929.

How is that proportional, a century of pop growth later?

Re: Fox to buy Roku

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Post by deathanatos » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 5:14 AM UTC

baggachipz wrote: post #422

deathanatos wrote: post #402

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Fine, "the right" is not a solid, well-defined group, and s/the right/the GOP/. What upthread wrote is practically the stated position of the GOP (as much as one can delineate the stated position, since the current platform is literally Trump-rambling style writing, complete with caps-lock style screaming…), and it's the political viewpoint, as best as one can determine, of basically all of the GOP's leadership. Inso…

The closest thing "the right" has to an instruction book is Project 2025, and they've made a lot of progress in enacting their goals right under our noses. The constant distraction, misdirection, and seeming insanity is a feature, not a bug. We can't "heal" because _they don't want to heal_. They want to see their agenda to completion, which includes total domination and expulsion/extermination of their opponents, wh…

I'm well aware of Project 2025, but given that the person above was trying to refute the right as a group with set goals, I wanted to stick closely to stances that the GOP doesn't deny is theirs. (Whereas with Project 2025, the GOP — falsely — denies that that's their stance.) But the GOP does also publish an official party platform, and that document, again, is pretty clear about stripping rights being a core part of the platform.

Re: Fox to buy Roku

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Post by givinguflac » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

Larrikin wrote: post #418

givinguflac wrote: post #257

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|If the box where I can’t set up a third party player to do the ‘replay last 5 seconds with subtitles on’ because it’s all locked down You do you, but I find that to be a truly niche thing to throw away an entire platform over. It literally does everything else better imho.

What's the app that has sponsor block and ad removal for YouTube on the Apple TV

NextDNS.

Re: Fox to buy Roku

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Post by Larrikin » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 11:06 PM UTC

givinguflac wrote: post #443

Larrikin wrote: post #418

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What's the app that has sponsor block and ad removal for YouTube on the Apple TV

NextDNS.

AdGuard and PiHole like solutions do not provide the same benefits as Sponsorblock. They also do not work on Youtube ads.