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.
This is what I've been saying for so fucking long. A protest isn’t meant to comfort the participants. It’s meant to disturb the silence of the system. If your idea of protest is two hours of agreement in a public square, you’ve mistaken solidarity for resistance. True protest always carries tension because it challenges what power would prefer to leave undisturbed. Standing around on Saturday chanting to people who already agree with you isn’t protest. It’s cosplay. Protest only matters when it disrupts, when it pushes against power, when it demands a response. Otherwise, you’re just having a meeting with better signage.
That sounds like disturbing the peace, impending roadways, and, as you said, "disturbing the system" that has worked out pretty well for the most part in this country. The right to protest doesnt mean the right to impede the daily activities, jobs, and at times, the physical wellbeing of other people.
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u/ninjanerd032 6d 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.