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

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Post by msie »

christkv wrote: post #49
cwal37 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well, the Dems tried but the GOP shut that plan down.

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Post by owlcompliance »

cwal37 wrote: post #19
owlcompliance wrote: post #16

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As a former staunch Republican, if there's one thing I've learned, it's that both parties have sold us out. I disagree with a lot of the Left's policies and many on the Right as well, but both parties advocate, in theory, for several things that would benefit all Americans -- yet it never happens. Republicans advocate for fiscal responsibility -- never happens. Democrats advocate for things like healthcare and cancel…

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…

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

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Post by booleandilemma »

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 believe that our politicians are just trying to make as much money for themselves as possible and they don't actually care about America or Americans at all, and this has been the case for maybe the past 50 years or so.

I further believe that future historians will look back on the past 300 or so years as being occupied by two very different Americas: a true America, founded in 1776, and some kind of oligarchic scam that still called itself America for the brand recognition but was in reality a completely different entity.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

somenameforme wrote: post #25
great_wubwub wrote: post #18

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This is the scariest part.

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...

If you can change the narrative the whatever percentage of CNN's prime time viewers are getting, then that's even fewer receiving opposing programming. That's 100% of the goal whatever number of viewer percentages are affected. Or is it 1200% fewer opposition viewers??? ::face-palm::

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Post by declan_roberts »

b00ty4breakfast wrote: post #27
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.

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Post by mandevil »

vel0city wrote: post #56
femiagbabiaka wrote: post #51

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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…

> The median American lives in a city and has exposure to Muslims and is most likely not Islamophobic Most Islamophobic people I know live in cities. Is there really that much of a change related to urbanism for Islamophobia, one you adjust for political alignment and religiousness? For reference, this is the America I see every day: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/epic-citys-vision-sp... Collin County is >90…

Over the past 17 years I've lived in three houses (in the suburbs of two different cities in two different states- one East Coast, one land-locked) and an apartment in NYC (obviously also East Coast). In all of the East Coast spots (urban and suburban) there was a mosque closer than the nearest McDonald's. For the land-locked state suburb the mosque was 2 miles away and the nearest McDonald's was 0.75 miles away.

I'm not selecting these houses to be convenient to the Mosque- I've never been in any of those Mosques. It's just an artifact of living in the sort of neighborhoods that I like. I tend to agree that it isn't urban/rural per se, as much as it's Openness of the Big Five personality traits. Which, at least in the US, tends to be correlated with a lot of other things (college education, density of living, etc.).

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Post by hypeatei »

owlcompliance wrote: post #62
cwal37 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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Post by gib444 »

booleandilemma wrote: post #63
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 believe that our politicians are just trying to make as much money for themselves as possible and they don't actually care about America or Americans at all, and this has been the case for maybe the past 50 years or so. I further believe that future historians will look back on the past 300 or so years as being occupied by two very different Americas: a true America, founded in 1776, and some kind of oligarchic sca…

> I believe that our politicians are just trying to make as much money for themselves as possible and they don't actually care about America or Americans at all

This wild and outrageous statement needs a serious source to backup the gigantic claim.

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Post by wat10000 »

unrelat3d wrote: post #58
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, 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.

People don't know anything about anything, generally. Any sort of political discussion is incredibly frustrating because there's no agreement on very basic facts. We can't even get to the point where we discuss our values or what we think are the best ways to achieve those values, because we can't even agree on basic things like whether vaccines save lives or which places are wealthier.

Just look at all the nonsense around tariffs. This was a huge thing with this admin, and people generally don't know what they are!

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Post by turtlesdown11 »

joe_mamba wrote: post #60
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…

> And we have more money and a better economic base than just about anywhere on the planet Earth. Because of the massive historical defense, tech and entertainment industries all under one roof for decades, bringing in crazy money. The blue politicians that built California as the defense, tech and movie powerhowse decades ago, have nothing in common with those running California today, so California staid successful…

yeah keep voting red and look like Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana...
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