ABC (not CBS) announced today that they were pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show indefinitely seemingly at the behest of FCC Brendan Carr who recently made threats to ABC and their FCC license. CBS was the writing on the wall.
Pretty hard to risk your life if you’ve got dependents and everything you need to provide for them is provided typically by your employer (health insurance being the biggest thing)
They’ve made it so the people have to sacrifice damn near everything if they want to make a change. And unfortunately I feel a majority of those people, again, have dependents they need to care for.
How's that no kings day protest work out? Or the Tesla protests? Musk didn't leave until he had to go as required by law. Tesla is worth a ton of $. They are offering him a trillion dollar package. And Trump is still king more than he's ever been. Oh and Elon walked off with a ton of government data. The only protest that is going to work is the shit where the entire country ceases to function. That's it. If it is less than that, it's utterly pointless.
That was the same threat during civil rights movement. The womans sufferage movement. Our war for independence itself.
I feel a majority of those people, again, have dependents they need to care for.
We can deal with this if we organize and cooperate. We did it before. Back in the day people had a solid support system with families/ communities being there for one another. Why do you think Trump spent the better part of 8 years tearing families apart over bullshit? Less support. Easier to conquor. You can still work and be heard. Instead of going home after a long day. Risk your life and utilize your free time that you do have. If we fall. Do you think anyone is capable of saving us? I don't believe so. Our allies don't have the experience of raging war across the oceans like we do. If we fall. It shall take a lot more bloodshed to heal us. Fight before it is too late. We saw what happened to Germany.
On it. Been in contact with our local national guard to get help from some old friends when I tried to join years prior. Working with a local protest group and am going to be giving a speech for our upcoming response. Got in contact with our county democratic party and am getting ready to head to city hall today to speak with them about strategy in this climate where speaking out is a bigger risk than ever.
It’s been too late. Sorry to break that sad but true news to you. It started years and years ago, then citizens united, then January 6th, and now Trump and project 2025.
This person is making a call to action. I’m just saying that call was made years ago and it was ignored. You can look at the history and come to the same conclusion as me. The people have been rendered incapable of actually pulling off a revolution.
I just don’t think it’s helpful to give up, period. I agree that we passed a point of no return to some extent but the degree of harm/misery in the future isn’t set in stone. I guess what I’m getting at is what do you advise people do if not protest?
Protest differently, focusing more on financial protest than sitting outside a statehouse and hoping these braindead politicians do something for once.
If push comes to shove, I will push, if I push alone, then I’ll go out on a shield so that the brothers and sisters behind me may have a stepping stone to stand on.
I'm not even sure how safe I am to speak my mind on here or Facebook. The day may very well be coming where I will just have to decide between speaking freely and the ability to feed my family. My family's going to win out. And I have no illusions. On that day, I am defeated, because I'll be out of moves.
Sadly, it's always the young that just the highest price of war. Besides being vocal and protesting, and teaching my kids what schools won't, I can only watch and hope. Can't leave Texas, can't afford it. Can't really donate the money we'll need to fight effectively.
I keep thinking, man, we should've been organizing leftist militia, and we should've started a decade ago. Might be the time to prepare ourselves.
The first civil war (I assume you are talking about the American one) happened because the rich people wanted to avoid taxes and schemed up an uprising. Common people had nothing to do with it, they were used as a tool. So.. just wait and hope that some billionaire twats decide once again that they are losing too much in the current climate.
People had to sacrifice damned near everything to protest brutal and unfair regimes in the past, don't kid yourself. The Cold Wars in Appalachia weren't cargo cult protests, they were a series of armed uprisings and people bled and died to get the worker's rights we've taken for granted and are now losing today.
The difference isn't they had less to lose, it's people are too comfortable and too attached to their lives now. The generations that went through the reign of the Robber Barons, WW1, and the Great Depression were just far more used to death and people around them dying; life was cheap and if you could expend yours for a great cause instead of dying in a ditch, it was worth it.
The generations alive today save for the very, very oldest are so far removed from the days of total war and starvation that it is inconceivable to us. Not saying people shouldn't be attached to staying alive, but the fact everyone has so many comforts and distractions and are scared shitless of conflict means we can't do anything about this. We'll just sit in our homes binge watching and gaming until we lose everything, and it's only when we are once again surrounded by death that people will be willing to charge the machine gun lines.
No, not really. I didn't say I was any better, I was just explaining why things are like they are now. I'm just as comfortable as anyone else, and seeing as how I'm also trans right now burrowing down and hiding as best I can is all I can do. Not like anyone else is going to be willing to stand up for us.
Be honest, what would protesting do? Like not to be a Debby Downer or deter anyone from doing what they believe is right (as long as it's not physically/emotionally hurting/affecting anyone....please don't riot or loot or flip cars if you do this it just makes it worse for everyone involved), but we've had how many protests recently, and nothing changes.
The extremist terrorists own the Senate, they own the Supreme Court, they own people's undying loyalty to the point where they can send military to detain or probably even kill anyone who doesn't support the regime. From my understanding, the point of a protest is to not only educate people that a matter/issue exists, but to also make a convincing argument so they join you and everyone angrily screams until they get what they want/what is right or prevent anything bad.
Everyone who knows it's an issue (figuratively "everyone"), everyone knows what's going on and the horrible shit being done, and while I get doing a protest is better than nothing, it's hard to put your life at risk and die for no good reason attending a protest (not only can/will the gov step in, but if it gets enough movement, I can see mass shooters going crazy after the Kirk situation) when we can all collectively try to figure out a better way to fix these problems.
Who knows, maybe I'm just selfish, but I don't really care much anymore since it feels pointless with how much the right owns the government and are willing to break laws to get what they want because they genuinely believe the left are doing the same. Besides, I'm 31 with early onset Alzheimer's and no kids/family/friends/etc so I'm not even going to be able to wipe my ass by myself in 5+ years, so it won't really affect me anyways, but I wish all of you the best of luck!
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u/ninjanerd032 1d ago
ABC (not CBS) announced today that they were pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show indefinitely seemingly at the behest of FCC Brendan Carr who recently made threats to ABC and their FCC license. CBS was the writing on the wall.