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Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by throwmeaway222 »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #746
throwmeaway222 wrote: post #536

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> Murderers walk freely among you, and _we're_ not all bad people what? This is nuts. Are you saying you murder people? > A healthy society would encourage any speech which could reduce divisiveness (e.g. comments on Mr. Kirk, without retribution) Yes I agree with this. There are a lot of people that do vigils and prayers and eulogies when people die. Then there are people that go: he deserved it and XXX is next. The…

>This is nuts. Are you saying you['ve] murder[ed] people? Yes; I talked about this here two months ago [0]. In my circumstance, I would do it again with even less hesitation ... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476115#44482107 I also have a brother — served four tours as enlisted grunt kicking in combatants' doors — whose tally far exceeds my own (war. is. hell). It's not that I'm encouraging murder (I'm no…

Hey I don't disagree with anything you've said here. I just was surprised by your comment.

Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by croon »

somenameforme wrote: post #950
hnuser123456 wrote: post #870

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The quote cited in TFA claims that the murderer was "one of them". Now, why would someone take out a prominent spokesperson for their own party? They wouldn't, because that's not something that people do to other people they agree with. But somehow, people interpret that remark to make sense? The remark only makes sense if "one of them" refers to the fact the shooter was a white male, and the reader believes all whit…

There was a lot of fake news following the shooting trying to suggest that the shooter was MAGA and decided to kill Charlie Kirk because he 'wasn't MAGA enough.' In particular a photoshopped image of him wearing a MAGA shirt was shared millions of times on social media [1], along with suggestions he was a "groyper" which is apparently some fringe right wing group. You can see the substantial impact of this by looking…

I have never seen that photo, and the one supporting source for the claim that fake news was spread is someone who apparently runs this[1]?

I was not familiar with the term before either, but afaict it was based on the the shell casing engravings, halloween costumes etc, which I don't believe have been refuted [2]?

Not that this matters to the topic at hand as that isn't a claim Kimmel made either way, nor does it play into how tragic any murder is.

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/trending-politics/

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/17/how-charli...

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Post by phatskat »

josefritzishere wrote: post #868
duxup wrote: post #725

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Trump and Co. are the biggest "snowflakes". Anything that even hints at not being in line with their thoughts, they put the power of the government to work to punish it. It doesn't even matter what anyone says or thinks, once they're set on it being bad, they're on it and it's always played up to be the worst thing ever. There's no discussion, no indication what really happened, facts are irrelevant, all lies and thr…

Increasingly this resembles a mandatory state ideology.

Aka fascism

Re: ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by suzdude »

throwmeaway222 wrote: post #958
adrianmonk wrote: post #365

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From https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-... : > Appearing on Benny Johnson’s podcast on Wednesday, Carr suggested that the FCC has “remedies we can look at.” > “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” An absolutely unmistakable direct…

Yeah because Jimmy lied and they can't lie like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R670myCe1eE

No he did not. You keep spreading disinformation.

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Post by suzdude »

throwmeaway222 wrote: post #954
suzdude wrote: post #432

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He was raised in a rightwing household with easy access to firearms. Hating Kirk is nothing unusual. Maybe something in his conservative upbringing led him to believe violence was an acceptable action based on his hate. That's not a belief shared by the Democratic Party.

I'm pretty sure Luigi was celebrated on the left far more. I'm pretty sure CK's death was celebrated on the left far more too. https://www.azfamily.com/2024/12/20/1-4-americans-sympathize... > It found 28% of people who identified as liberal supported the murder, compared to 5% of conservatives. Both the left and the right (which tends to be poorer right now) are massively affected by the cost and non-coverage of ins…

> The LEFT WING is violent right now.

The facts really don't agree with you on that:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1nksbmg/guy_...

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Post by throwmeaway222 »

suzdude wrote: post #964
throwmeaway222 wrote: post #958

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Yeah because Jimmy lied and they can't lie like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R670myCe1eE

No he did not. You keep spreading disinformation.

Yes he absolutely did. Tyler Robinson was radicalized left. He is not MAGA. You are spreading misinformation. STOP.

Dylann Roof is right wing and a racist and evil. I can say that, why can't you say the truth about Tyler.

If you tell the truth and tell your side to stop, then things will calm down.

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Post by phatskat »

tim333 wrote: post #691
LeafItAlone wrote: post #680

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>Joe Rogan school of comedy Joe Rogan, the Fear Factor host turned Right Wing podcaster? Is he know for comedy? I thought his brief failed stint of stand up comedy is why he switched to podcasting.

I've watched Rogan a bit and don't recall him telling jokes. He generally seems quite a neutral interviewer though his guests lean right wing.

The “neutral” is part of his act. He platforms people with dangerous ideas under the guise of “just hearing what they have to say”, but he doesn’t really push back _ever_. I’ve heard people say downright factually incorrect or defamatory things on his show and his response is, largely, “oh really” or “that’s interesting”, etc.

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Post by basch »

D-Machine wrote: post #945
happytoexplain wrote: post #492

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I think everybody is (reasonably) confused by the use of the words "anything other than". It's usually used in phrases that express the speaker's opinion to the opposite ("as if this is anything other than performative" means "this is performative"). Based on the clip, it sounds like Kimmel unfortunately used it literally: "trying to portray [him] as anything other than...", as in, "they're jumping the gun on his por…

Thing is, even if the "trying to portray [him] as anything other than..." reading was intended and the correct reading, the statement is still closer to the opposite of the truth. Granted, it is not reasonable to expect everyone to have been terminally online for this issue, but even before this statement was made, it was clear if you visited places with right-wing bias (e.g. 4chan) that almost no one was concerned t…

>almost no one was concerned this guy might be MAGA.

But that's not what he's saying. He was saying "they were quick to paint him as blue tribe before knowing his tribe." It is just constructed like a sentence that ambiguously also means "desperately constructing that he was not red tribe."

>Red tribe media gleefully pointing out left/progressive connections

Which is synonymous with what JK said. That the reaction was "he was a them, not us, therefore justifying our prejudices."

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Post by somenameforme »

croon wrote: post #962
somenameforme wrote: post #950

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a lot of fake news following the shooting trying to suggest that the shooter was MAGA and decided to kill Charlie Kirk because he 'wasn't MAGA enough.' In particular a photoshopped image of him wearing a MAGA shirt was shared millions of times on social media [1], along with suggestions he was a "groyper" which is apparently some fringe right wing group. You can see the substantial impact of this by looking…

I have never seen that photo, and the one supporting source for the claim that fake news was spread is someone who apparently runs this[1]? I was not familiar with the term before either, but afaict it was based on the the shell casing engravings, halloween costumes etc, which I don't believe have been refuted [2]? Not that this matters to the topic at hand as that isn't a claim Kimmel made either way, nor does it pl…

The source that pushed the fake picture is this [1] account with some 5 million followers that regularly posts disinformation and agitprop. That is also the same account that claimed he was a 'groyper'. Go check its stream and you can find endless more absurd claims.

People then simply unquestioningly repeated the claims, cited the same disinformation, and away we go - social media style. For instance here [2] it showed up in an Anandtech discussion, and I already linked to the claims making their way onto hacker news in dozens of posts as well. To say nothing of the cess pools that are Reddit, X, Facebook, etc.

[1] - https://xcancel.com/YourAnonCentral

[2] - https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/charlie-kirk-shot-in-th...

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Post by [deleted] »

rdtsc wrote: post #858
aigen01 wrote: post #855

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"Catch, fascist" is a reference to the Hell Divers 2 video game, it is less a political calling card and more of a reference to gaming.

Fair enough, but it's written on a bullet meant to assassinate someone in real life. Had it been in the context of playing video games, I would see it just being a game quote. Ok, fine, but then "Bella ciao" is an anti-Nazi and anti-fascist Italian folk song (at least according to wikipedia) [1], so, we got a hard right winger, mentioning killing fascists and listening to Bella ciao killing someone like Charlie Kirk.…

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