• veee@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    I mean, never say never. It hasn’t even been a year yet.

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      They will just find another avenue to attack. They’ve shown their colors time and time again. They either want you subservient to them, silent, or you will be attacked until you are unable to be more than background noise.

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        They will just find another avenue to attack.

        American Trans people, spitting out blood and a few teeth, “I didn’t hear no bell.”

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          See the thing is, the fight is to the death for us and to not wanting to keep fighting for them. They have the numbers, but they have a much more difficult victory condition

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        they will go after other talk show hosts, if not kimmel. fallon is unlikely will be targeted, since he will bootlick trump on occasion.

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    Why are these overpaid tv personalities worried about losing their jobs? Do they not have million$ in the bank to fall back on? Or do they live paycheck-to-paycheck because they’re all addicted to buying mansions & yachts?

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      Because it’s not just them and they have empathy. These shows are employed by staffs of 150+ people who also lose their jobs. When Conan received his 45M settlement from NBC, most of it was used to support staff members who didn’t get any sort of severance.

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        I think Colbert also kept paying his full staff when in covid lockdown even when he was filming it from his bathtub and then his shed or something.

        And then there’s also the whole freedom of speech, journalistic freedom thing.

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          Colbert has some pretty sick green screen & special effects in his “from home” COVID episodes. Oops sorry I don’t remember specifically, I think I’m actually remembering a John Oliver COVID episode.

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      It’s the PR stunt of trying to relate to his audience. Of course, people eat it up because they are desparate to say shit like “Taylor Swift is just like us!”

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    Look I’m happy he’s got his show back, and it was awful the circumstances that it was removed, but can we collectively move on to more important things?

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        Like I said it is important and I’m glad he has his show back but I guess I really don’t understand why it matters to continue to bring it up. There are so many people that are being punished under this administration. I don’t really understand the case to care about someone who is a multimillionaire over the thousands of people who are being deported or separated from families or killed.

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          I’m worried that if someone doesn’t like my thoughts on certain individuals, they could go to my employer and get me fired or targeted.

          ABC is a Democrat funding organization and they suspended him for (accurately) saying that the right was trying to find someone to blame before having all the facts and then showing an unedited clip of Trump.

          If that’s the bar, we’re all fucked. So yeah, I took it VERY FUCKING PERSONALLY that I could be fired for accurately describing current events like people being killed, assaulted, or tortured because it’s considered inflammatory. In addition to that, network TV is about to get a lot more right-wing and a lot less honest for the sake of centrism. So I want people with an audience to be able to tell the truth about invasions in our own damn country.

          The response has been the demand free speech and, for me, it has been a rare bright spot recently.

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            ABC is a Democrat funding organization

            ABC is owned by Disney, one of the largest corporations that ever existed… what the fuck are you talking about?

            They have no spine, and will cave to pressure in any direction, as this whole Kimmel episode has perfectly illustrated.

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            Thanks for sharing that it really helps me understand why I keep seeing things posted about him.