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PBS is defunded but not defeated.

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[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 76 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Fucking shit americans, PLEASE fet your shit together, make it stop... I know this one is a tiny drop in the ocean of rotting shit that is the Trump fascist regime, but fuck...

Sorry, sorry, i know, you're just as horrified...

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

I'm doing the best I can, my dude. There's only so much I can do when the entire system is working against us at every turn. Even the politicians that were supposed to be on our side are a bunch of pussies that have no moral compass as long as they get paid. I'm going to protests and I'm trying to keep my friends and family informed (even my MAGA dad) but there's only so much I can do.

And yeah, I'm horrified. I haven't had a good night's sleep since October. I'm basically starting to doomsday prep at this point.

[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

We need help from the rest of the world and right now only Canada and Brazil have shown any spine whatsoever. When all the world governments accepts this BS too, we're all fucked. Tell your government to boycott the US. No trade, no tech, no exceptions.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

WE ARE TRAPPED IN A COUNTRY THAT IS DRIVING ITSELF AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT BUT CRASHING THE WHOLE DAMN THING.

Sorry, but there is nothing we can do but wait this out or take up arms, at which point this will all be made worse because the people trying to do good will be the ones framed as the villains which will give the whole establishment further fuel for their sheep minded constituents. What the fuck are you doing except making victims feel worse?

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm stocking up on ammo for the forthcoming culture war, but I wish people here would wake up to it being a class war.

Granted I am also making Plan B and C to leave the country inside of a year or so...if I even can at that point.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago

PragerU is a dangerous joke, a barely even veiled propaganda machine pretending to be educational, a privately owned partisan conservative history white washing lie generator with an entire wing aimed at indoctrination of children. It should be ridiculed and sued out of existence for myriad cases of libel, but here we are on the worst timeline propping it up over public broadcasting that has been actually educating kids for generations. Fuck me.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 weeks ago

Please donate, PBS and NPR really needs it. Especially if you are in less populated area.

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 47 points 2 weeks ago

The kids will not be alright, they will be alt-right

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 weeks ago
[–] TRAHR@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago

RIP America

[–] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Going from United States of America to Peoples Democratic Republic of Orange Christania in record time.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Super sick.

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I’m sorry but I couldn’t help but notice

YOU HAVEN’T RELEASED THE EPSTEIN FILES YET MR TACO

[–] Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine an evil Mister Rogers. I think this will be a thing.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Unfortunately it's more like this:

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't click your link before, but I have now and I did a little chortle. Well done

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Someone unplug this rotten simulation!

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

One top comment is fine, no need to spam.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The comments will stop once the files have been released.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not saying stop saying it. I'm saying stop spamming it in huge letters in a relatively small forum like Lemmy. I'm fine with the message for now, but people have to consider the side effects that spamming it has on others.

Like, we just had a thread of people disliking celebrities for the simple fact that they were too visible in the media. Did we not learn a lesson from that one?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I disagree. I don’t see the harm in demanding accountability from our politicians a little louder.

RELEASE THE FILES

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You don't see the harm in preaching to the choir to the point of being obnoxious? The downvotes are starting to increase. You're burning through people's good grace and patience real quick... unless that's your end goal.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I thought the point of thread based comments is you can go completely off topic on one thread without effecting others. Don’t like it? There’s like a dozen other threads on the post to read. Many Lemmy frontends will let you collapse a thread if it’s bothering you.

Now that I’m thinking about it, maybe I’ll make keyword filters auto collapse comment threads in my Lemmy frontend I’m building.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

thread without effecting others

What part of spamming in a huge font is not affecting other people's browsing experience? Do you see the downvotes? Whether you like it or not, there's etiquette.

But maybe you're right, let me block you right now instead of listening to you defend the absurd.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

What even is the point, I'm just gonna block you.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

So, that's what they were trying to do.

[–] Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Can’t wait for more of Penis Prager’s Fartside Shats.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Grooming the Shitler youth to fight for their own oppression

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Actually a clown country

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I did not see this coming

waiter! waiter! more hatred towards minorities please!

also release the epstein files

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I thought PBS was shutting down?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The US government stopped funding it, but it was 'self-sustaining' (through donations) already.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Bingo. I'm not sure what would happen if you shut off the woodwrights shop or this old house but I think an home improvement based uprising with chisels and marking knives wouldn't be terribly out of the question.

[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down. Not PBS nor NPR.

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sick of these fucking bullshit non profits when profit is one of the primary goals, roast in hell you greedy asshole douchebags.

[–] inkrifle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago