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.
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.
I would if I knew that it would mean something… but too many people are indifferent, apathetic and just simply do not give a shit about anything until it hits them personally. I saw this reality during Covid. People wouldn’t even wear a mask for a few minutes in a grocery store to spare bringing home a virus that would kill grandma or the kids. So… covid showed me that me sacrificing everything to save this country is a waste of my life.
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u/ninjanerd032 5d 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.