Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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But he created Fox News thanks to the Simpson success
Fox Entertainment is not Fox News. They often play against one another to capture both audiences.
The Simpsons aired in 1989. Fox News was created in 1996.
With money from the Simpson
Nah from the Gary Shanding show
I read it was mostly Tracy Ullman money (I didn't)
The cartoonist who coined "eat my shorts" and "don't have a cow" and "doh!" 7 years earlier is supposedly more complicit for the rise of fascist media than the democrat president who just months before the founding of Fox news passed the Telecommunications act of 1996 that made Fox news possible/inevitable.
youre not wrong when you state he helped create fox news, not sure why you're so heavily downvoted
1980 - News corp created
1989 - The Simpsons airs
why would Matt Groening do this
why would he contribute to the success of a bad news organization? for the $$$ baby, just like everything else in this cruel, cruel world 😎
im not sure if youre joking but matt groening created the simpsons which is a fictional cartoon that premiered on fox broadcasting company, an entirely different company than news corp which created fox news and which existed nearly a decade before the simpsons did.
Fox Broadcasting Company is/was a subsidiary of News Corp, now "Fox Corporation" which is owned by the same people.
The name changed to Fox Corporation when they sold their entertainment portfolio to Disney.
Disney owns the Simpsons.
Is one of those people Matt fucking Groening? Because otherwise it's a stupid claim. Did Sean Hannity create the Simpsons?
thanks for the info! was fox news as divisive back in the 90s as it is today? if so, why would he work with them?
No, it took a while to get really bad. It was always right leaning and not great reporting but it wasn't until the success of Bill O'Reilly in the oughts that it went completely off the rails. If you haven't seen it you should watch John Stewart on Crossfire.Crossfire was Tucker Carlson's first big show back when Fox was first starting to get really bad and was competing with Comedy Central instead of other news organizations. Stewart killed the show in one interview. How? By telling them that they were hurting America and asking them to stop.
I think a show with hidden satire like simpsons aired on such a network (fox, if it was like it is today ( i don’t know, I am young and not American)) would be a funny achievement 🤔
true
he didn't
Just like all the US tax payers killed children, right?
well, yes. thats why americans should be upset
So where does the blame stop then?
when we get the money out of politics
Ah yes... Impractical idealism. It never fails to do nothing with its obvious, simple answers.
yup!
Are you serious?
Yes. Where does the blame stop when we're all apparently responsible for all the bad shit on the world?
Did @big_slap@lemmy.world mention the world, or just america?
But, the world bought our stuff, that produced income, that became taxes, that paid for military. His question it's legit. Where does it stop?
Many people have boycotted american products and EU are investing a ton of money in production, so that we don't need to be dependent on america, since it can't be trusted and it's people either think it's someone elses problem, thinks the country is to big to do anything (despite a historic civil war), or is to afraid to risk their comforts.
It's in america, by americans. Where does it stop? With americans.
So it stops when it involves you. That's what I expected.
Just ignore 80% of my previous comment, sure...
Yes the rest of the world elected a criminal. We watch Fox News... It's our fault, you don't have to get off your ass.
Good news, I didn't do any of those things either. Guess I'm off the hook. Thank goodness for that.
You sure are too clever for me... Prime example of the intellect, that the world has come to expect from americans...
Dude, you're the fucking idiot in this scenario and everyone knows it, hence the downvotes. You are not the person to be insulting his intellect lol.
Yeah, it's not a bunch of americans trying to avoid cognitive dissonance...
Your boos mean nothing,
You mean the Civil War declared by the north and south's governments and fought by their militaries?
But sure, keep expecting the average American to start a Civil War or else they're complicit in their government's action. Holy fuck you're dumb, I'm done.
Yup that is clear from this conversation over the internet, where people can communicate over vast distances better than ever. That I am the dumb one. 😘
Du er så færdig, at du ikke engang har tænkt dig at oversætte dette til dit møg sprog. Nåh hov, hej igen.
Won't let me respond to your latest dumbass comment so I'll leave it here.
I didn't choose to be born in America and be forced to pay taxes you dumb fuck. I don't blame you for your countries atrocities, and I'm sure we can find some if we go through history.
You want to blame conservatives? Sure. Plenty of people in America are appalled by what the fuck is happening here you bigot. There wasn't a high enough percentage of Americans who voted for this shit that you can paint with such a broad brush and go on Lemmy, which is majority leftist, and say common, powerless people are complicit in things completely outside of their control.
You're a fucking moron. Stop criticizing other's intelligence. Stop blaming lower class people for the actions of the rich and ignorant people's votes.
U r sweet. And your response totally changed my mind.
Over a half a million people died in the american civil war, so you could correct me about how nothing can be done.
I know why.