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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order

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Post by Aloisius »

vel0city wrote: post #134
arcbyte wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I say this as a firm conservative. The courts have so far been outstanding, despite all the inappropriate pressure. I have no doubt they will continue to be. I'm also quite impressed with conservative voters who are speaking out to their conservative representatives. Ultimately though, despite many many calls not to do so, Congress has goven the executive branch unheard of powers. Executive power needs to be reigned…

The courts have so far been exceptionally weak. Hey, you're not allowed to send those people on the plane! The plane already left even though I told you not to send it? Well, you gotta get them back! You're not sending them back? I'll just keep telling you that you have to do it, that'll really show you! Oh, pretty please, would you return that man you illegally sent to that torture prison? No? Oh, ok, well would you…

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.

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Post by Aloisius »

ta1243 wrote: post #397
hwillis wrote: post #260

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On the grounds that he should have been sent to literally any other country, totally inapplicable to any of the other cases without specific preexisting orders against ES specifically. And notably they have outlined exactly nothing except that the administration had better say how they plan to get him back- the SCOTUS response to the executive saying "we have no plan" was just to say again that they wanted to know th…

> The government is imprisoning people indefinitely (forever?) for unproven allegations and misdemeanors. They should be able to file habeas petitions for unlawful imprisonment. The courts are doing fuck all about it because the government is contracting to a foreign country to physically imprison them. That's crazy. This doesn't sound too dissimilar from the Guantanamo bay situation, which Bush, Obama, Trump and Bid…

Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo on his second day in office.

Congress passed a bill with overwhelmingly support that prevented it.

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Post by netsharc »

DudeOpotomus wrote: post #418
netsharc wrote: post #353

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That's why the only "viable resistance" would be a high-ranking military-person with a tank battalion and thousands of soldiers who are willing to follow his conviction of "I'm going to perform insubordination because I believe my commander in chief is an enemy of the constitution, follow me if you believe the same", and then have a plan to besiege the White House/Capitol. Anything smaller will just be someone which…

What are they fighting a civil war for? Cheaper gas? More fast food? There is nothing now or in the near future that would fracture the country enough to fight. Once commerce stops, people will lose their collective minds. You cant tell Americans how to park, how to dress let alone what to eat or drink or do. Good luck with the collective will needed to fight for an ideologue in the 21st century.

> Good luck with the collective will needed to fight for an ideologue in the 21st century.

Look at the January 6 mob...

I can imagine there's the willingness to fight for democracy or the return of the rule of law, or just "to see those corrupt scumbags be punished", people had food in 2020 but still went to the streets because of the police murder of George Floyd.

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Post by transcriptase »

timbit42 wrote: post #506
mmastrac wrote: post #4

This is quite sad. PBS and NPR were jewels of the American system. The right-wing has latched on to the message that all public-funded media that isn't right-wing-biased is _bad_ and are trying to kill it everywhere. We are constantly fighting the same battle in Canada where the right-wing accuses media of being left-leaning, while most major news outlets are actually American-owned and slant right a lot of the time.…

A lot of Canadians seem to think the CBC is overly biased but that the BBC is less biased, but the BBC is actually more biased than the CBC. A lot of Canadians also think the CBC is too expensive but it is less expensive than the BBC and public media in most of the EU. The British government pays BBC $100/person/year. The Canadian government pays CBC $29/person/year.

The CBC is biased in the sense of what they won’t include in a story, or not cover until they’re the only Canadian news outlet not covering an event. You will never see the CBC break a story about something that makes the Liberal party or a person or group they consider marginalized look bad. Only once CTV, Global, NatPost, G&M have it on the front page will CBC cover it and usually leave out certain things that might be off-putting to marginalized groups or Liberal supporters.

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Post by consumer451 »

bluGill wrote: post #84
JSR_FDED wrote: post #8

When I first moved to the US (Bay Area) and discovered NPR in my first week there I almost couldn’t believe that there was such a source of high quality and thoughtful programming. The value destruction of the last few months has been astonishing.

NPR gets the vast majority of funding (last I checked) from members. So make sure you donate at their next pledge drive.

Earlier today, I mentioned what you commented in another forum, and wise person pointed out to me that that it's the rural stations that will be affected most by this.

When you consider the rural media options, this will be a huge shift in those markets if the funding is not replaced.

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Post by tomp »

sofixa wrote: post #227
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #89

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The funny thing is, that the GOP is not "conservative," in any way, whatsoever. They are extreme. The definition of "conservative" means "not-extreme." It is not just "not-liberal." It means being thoughtful, cautious, sticking with the mainstream, learning from the past, not discarding learned wisdom, etc. Things like anti-abortion, hate-brown-people, put-women-back-in-the-kitchen-or-the-bedroom etc. stuff is often…

> The funny thing is, that the GOP is not "conservative," in any way, whatsoever. They are extreme The word that describes them the best is reactionary. As a political ideology it fell out of favour some time in the late 19th, early 20th century with the fall of the various reactionary regimes (Austria under Metternich, Imperial Russia). But the GOP, and some other parties looking to them for inspiration, are reactio…

> They are opposed to any social progress and want to go back.

I see it as exact opposite.

The "left" parties have long abandoned social progress and are now regressing. Support or racism (affirmative action), terrorism, violence against women, violence against Jews, violence and rioting in general, denial of science, against meritocracy, against freedom of speech.

Technically, while going back to meritocracy, equality, freedom of speech is "reactionary", I'd definitely term it progress.

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Post by RandomUser4976 »

I want off this train. I’m voting, protesting and only spending my money at places I know are not actively supporting Trump and. It rolling back DEI, (looking at you Target). Still feeling pretty helpless that it’s only going to get worse for us and for my children’s future.

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Post by UncleMeat »

next_xibalba wrote: post #214
kaishiro wrote: post #168

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What in the world are you on about? They published an interview with an author who had - admittedly - controversial takes looting. You make it sound like they were telling people to go smash windows. It's telling that you chose not to link the actual piece: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178...

The “admission” was not part of the original publication. They added both that note and changed the title well after the fact. https://archive.is/2020.08.27-191914/https://www.npr.org/sec... The mere fact that they platformed such an extreme, insane viewpoint is the issue. If you can find a similarly sympathetic platforming of a far right nutter by NPR, maybe I’ll take you seriously. Show me one NPR story about the J…

Surely if you are concerned about platforming you'd be concerned about the literal actual self-described fascists and white supremacists platformed by various now mainstream right wing news outlets, right?

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Post by rstuart4133 »

faster wrote: post #220
afavour wrote: post #29

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I would imagine Project 2025 is a good source here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 Every American owes it to themselves to familiarize themselves with the project and its aims, because a number of its authors are the ones wielding power right now.

Here's a dashboard. https://www.project2025.observer/ Not a substitute for reading the doc but good for a quick overview.

Once I stated reading that dashboard (a couple of weeks ago) I could not stop. It's a real page turner. My favourite moment (spoiler):

> Abolish the Federal Reserve and move to a "free banking" system.

Don't let that reveal dint your interest. In the Handmaids Tale such a long list of horrors would have bored the reader, but in the Administrations blueprint for the USA that already has 41% of the items off in just 100 days it's riveting reading.

I can resist pointing out another highlight for me:

> Lessen child labor regulations to allow "teenage workers" to work "inherently dangerous jobs".

In sure Project 2025 is sustained to become a true classic.

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Post by immibis »

sva_ wrote: post #298
hadrien01 wrote: post #2

I suppose this is in response to this executive order: ENDING TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZATION OF BIASED MEDIA https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/endi... I would add that PBS has this to say about public media funding: > The U.S. is almost literally off the chart for how little we allocate towards our public media. At the federal level, it comes out to a little over $1.50 per person per year. Compare that…

What a poor example. As a German, we are forced to pay much more than that, about 220 euro annually. Only a small percentage actually goes into news and such, most are entertainment programs. I don't know anyone who is younger/my age that is in favor of it or consumes it. It is basically the boomers forcing us to subsidize their shitty crime shows. Annually they collect about 9 billion euro, no surprise the author of…

Reality skews heavily left. Should the news be about reality or ideology?
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