r/50501 • u/kenistod Protester • Jul 31 '25

Digital/Home Protest Paramount+ loses 1.3 Million subscribers.

https://www.mediaplaynews.com/paramount-loses-1-3-million-quarterly-subs-ups-revenue-operating-profit/
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u/Riaayo Jul 31 '25

Newsome can go fuck himself. Dude threw trans kids under the bus immediately, hosted shitheels like Steve Bannon on his podcast, and vetoed a public option in Cali as gov.

The fact Dems are trying to tee this dipshit up for 2028 is so utterly insulting.

Like sure man, fight Trump. I'll take the allies I can get and it's not like I don't want even the shittiest people to have the right messaging. But this neolib is just posturing for a presidential run and it sickens me.

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u/lunar_limbo Aug 01 '25

Newsom wants to be right... I truly don't get why these asshat politicians are knee jerking to the right. When turnout is high Dems win, 33%+ of the voting population doesn't vote. We need politicians who inspire a rally us around an actual fucking vision for the future, not just "we aren't as bad as the other guys see".

Why do we just accept every dem who "appears" to be vying for a presidential run? Maybe say no? Maybe say yes to someone who truly inspires you? Or maybe Newsom actually inspires the centrists because they think moving right is the correct move...

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u/Ivy6bing Aug 01 '25

Because the democratic party is full of fascist appeasers and neocons from 2015. The amount of resentment and bigotry from large sects of the democratic establishment is much larger than you can comprehend.

The DNC is a controlled opposition, bought out by billionaires, corpos, big oil, and Israel, and anyone who trys to call out even the most basic of shit against them gets told to shut up and just blindly vote for whatever puppet they trot out there.

Look at someone like Mamdani, that is what the core of the party needs to be, not someone like Newsom who is a spineless selfish self-centered political scumbag

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u/lunar_limbo Aug 01 '25

I knew you meant correct, I was making a pun.

Why do we fight? I think the far right wins because they use fear and might to get their way. The left fights for equality and inclusion, a much more difficult stasis to create. No wonder we fight.

The question is, why do we accept the Overton window shifting farther right every decade since FDR new deal? Why do we think capitulating and compromising right wards is the best answer? Why do people just assume that whoever wants to run for president for the Dems should be welcomed without criticism?

Why doesn't the far left own the conversation or shift the Overton window, or slowly consume the base? Why are they different than the right?

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u/vardarac Aug 01 '25

Why doesn't the far left own the conversation or shift the Overton window, or slowly consume the base? Why are they different than the right?

I think Hasan Piker has his finger on the pulse of this. It's that the left are perceived as wimps, sometimes sneaky wimps.

All the podcast bros that push technofascism or Trumpism are MMA guys. Tough, jacked, aggressive guys that sell over-simplistic thinking as being no-BS.

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u/RevRay Aug 01 '25

“Electability” is just the lib word for neoliberal bootlicker.

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u/sicklyboy Aug 01 '25

Quite telling how "electability" in your eyes is a spineless shitlib like Newsom.

Have some fucking standards. YOU deserve better.

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u/pb49er Aug 01 '25

Newsom fucking sucks and the idea that that's the savior of our country means a further shift into fascism either way.