Education is nearly dead. Just the way these shitbags want it.
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Fuck this administration, I hope they burn in the hell they believe in. I hope they all get cancer.
I try my best to find redeeming qualities in everyone, but there is none to be found in them.
It's just all vengeance and spite for decades of having to "tolerate" even a modicum of liberalism in their lives.
You spelled 'not having slaves' kinda funny there.
What did people expect. Trump and his largest donor both own social media sites and these are competitors eyeball time for ads
strange, I assumed they get their budget raised after Elmo came out as a nazi
They've had a hardon for public broadcasting for thirty years, which is why NPR and PBS have been preparing for this and why their funding largely doesn't come from the feds anymore. It's a hollow victory, it's just depressing because anymore, it seems the right gets everything they want. They get it all. All of it. And we get nothing.
What's sick is that they are a fraction of this country. But thanks to their money and their platforms, they can constantly repeat the lie that "most people are conservatives".
No, the kind of weird perverted freaks that dream of killing funding to NPR and PBS are definitely not normal and not the majority. But yeah, thanks to a lot of various things, they get what they want....it's sickening.
It’s not even September and they’ve dismantled like 80% of the shit that makes being alive worthwhile
dismantled
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1250902337/npr-cpb-public-radio-funding-101
Today, NPR receives only about 1% of its operating budget directly from the federal government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/business/media/npr-pbs-funding-cuts.html
Will NPR and PBS survive?
Yes. NPR gets about 2 percent of its annual budget directly from federal grants, including from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; for PBS, that amount is about 15 percent.
It'll be a hit for PBS in particular, but it's not gonna end NPR or PBS.
If anything it might spark fundraising
Most of the funding goes to member stations for upkeep. Don't wait for the next pledge drive. Donate tomorrow.
NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC's On the Media or WBEZ's Wait Wait gets axed.
and it's going to hurt rural areas the most. some of them could lose up to 50% their revenue overnight, which will almost certainly lead to them shutting down. and then what happens next time there's some disaster that knocks out the internet and there aren't any local radio stations left to inform the people when and where to take shelter?
its still not great. if the feds wont even provide a percentage of funding, what else wont they do?
makes being ~~alive~~ American worthwhile
FTFY.
We deliberately don't get news about it, but China is making entire cities for the well-educated looking to return to China from the US. They are "taking the solar system" right now according to some experts, and are on their third space station among multiple lunar missions. ESA and other countries have also taken grand steps into space. International science and medical research forges ahead without us. There are countries effectively expanding their social safety nets and other than US involvement in Israel/the Middle East broadly, the world is at an all-time peak of peace and personal safety.
You are being fed a cultivated image. This entire "free speech" catchphrase that we've been taught to scream at any offence is an illusion, a lie reinforced by every branch of media, which are in turn branches of the corporations that have long since nailed the coffin closed on actual democracy.
Remember Dead Internet Theory? Dead America Theory. We died around Reagan, the country has been running on momentum and money. We won't feel it until the money runs out and that's why this current administration is a pile of bottom-feeding bilge rats scraping off whatever they can from taxpayers. They know the value of the American dollar is about to start plummeting, and climate change and other technological changes to the global stage will be the final flush of this toilet we've been trying to pretend we're not spinning around.
Our progress and species will go on, just not without America leading the way. Even if we got a "perfect" president and administration tomorrow they wouldn't be able to undo this reverse-snowball that's currently evaporating out of control.
When fascism works it makes everything boring and bland as fuck.
Knowledge is power and they want the public to have none of it
Keep them just smart enough to work the machines, but too stupid to coordinate uprising.
~ George Carlin, paraphrased
Carlin calling out the machine spirites 40k years before we forget how to use machines.
For the emperor, I guess .
What's really insane is they don't even want the knowledge. They just want knowledge in any capacity to go away.
No, they want the knowledge but only for themselves, after all during the guilded age, the educated where the rich and the rest where ignorant so they couldn't push back and be controlled. PBS and NPR spread knowledge for the masses and THAT is what they want to stop
I don't think you've seen who's doing all the destruction. These people do not care about gaining knowledge.
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Dear Congress:
You're not being the people Mr. Rogers thought you could be.
*you're
And fhere are so many great educational YouTube channels that are partly funded by PBS, that's awful..
Ex:
Space Time is fucking amazing.
If anyone reading this is even remotely interested in science, watch that channel. Absorb it. It speaks truth.
PBS Eons
I donate to NPR/PBS annually; probably will need to double my donation.
This is the one and only time that I'm hoping that someone on Lemmy is a billionaire.
I hope you are in the top 5% of income earners because otherwise you probably won't get a tax break from the money the government "saved" and rather probably pay more in taxes.
I don't care about the write off. I care because public radio is something I worked in for a half decade and well afterwards it gave me a connection to my community and the world at large. I'll give more money to spite them. Fuck their right off. I donate because it is good and true. And fuck anyone that says otherwise.
Cheers to that. Question for you. With no funding being allocated, do you think this will be the final break of any remaining influence the federal gov has over public radio? I don't know how much there was to begin with, but I imagine it is similar to infrastructure funding that came with stipulations.
The people that work in public radio are like career gov workers or direct care workers. I say that because I've been two of those three, and count some career beurocrats as good friends.
. The people that work in these industries will sell their souls to keep fighting the good fight. Underpaid and understaffed. But in this case, the economics will start to eat away at local stations and the people who truly believe will be forced to abandon it eventually.
Economics are economics.
At the end of the day, it's a public service. The federal government is a necessary part of how it continues to exist. Public services are not very viable through charity as a sole funding source. They aren't money makers. They provide a free service for the bare minimum.
The most insidious bit is that none of these stations will disappear tomorrow. They are filled with dedicated individuals that will fight tooth and nail to keep them running. And donors that will try their best to keep them afloat.
The true toll, like everything this administration is doing, will take years to unfold. One by one stations will drop out and close. And it will be with a whimper. A death by a thousand cuts. Exsanguinated to death drop by drop.
Many will drop out before this administration ends. And I have little faith in the compitence of their replacements to restore this funding. Even if "my side" wins.
There really isn't that much federal influence to the public broadcasting sector, other than providing funds and some regulations on what they can or can't say. And it's not a 'can or can't say' propaganda thing. It's a "don't put a dollar value to products in your underwriting", or " don't endorse and sell trump gold coins to the elderly" sort of restrictions. Public radio doesn't have advertisers. They have underwriters. They get their name out as a sponsor to the programming, not to sell a product. Those are the rules.
They are just stealing funds from nonprofits at this point.
Yeah, advertisers and corporate interests has already brought ruin to for profit news. I expect the passionate people will always exist and keep doing what they think is right. The cohesion will crumble before their spirit. Might be time to push local gov to help more with funding public stations.
Local government will do very little. Local businesses and individuals of a philanthropic mindset or personal will, that's what we've got. "Civic duty" keeps it afloat, and those sort of businesses and people become more rare by the day. In the places that need it the most, the political mindset is so corrupted, I fear we will never get it back.
If it existed, it's dead now. Our current situation is my only proof. But I would love for you to prove me wrong.
Pessimism or realism, I don't know what the difference is anymore tbh. I'm not stopping, but damn it it feels like a losing battle.
Local results are the only thing I have left to judge by. It has been a loosing battle for a long time, and they "patched" some of the last true communication and outreach available to indiviuals wanting to communicate nationally and worldwide. (The whole Twitter jounalist crackdown a while back comes to mind)
Everyone is getting too tired to put in effort for upholding values, but my stance is opposite that, I'm way more stubborn than people realize. I'm in the right place, and changed some things for the better at work. Might be time to switch my energy to my community. I want to transition from their Sysiphus to their fuckass-boulder.
The last step is finding out how to pit mega funding against eachother in a way that ultimately benefits locals.
Elmo's attempt to appeal to their base failed.
Wrong Elmo, they'd probably do better with this shotgun-wielding version:
Elmo's original voice actor had a bunch of sexual allegations against him. Republicans love that.
The War On Acceptance
She shouldn't have said this, it sealed the deal "Millions of Americans will have less trustworthy information about their communities, states, country, and world with which to make decisions about the quality of their lives."
She should have said: "Millions of Americans will lose access to information about how great Trump is and how to report who to deport next."
Jokes aside, the emergency broadcast system makes so much sense as a function of public broadcasting. I have been to several countries that explicitly subsidize radio and tv channels for this purpose. You can have public programming 99% of the time, and a way to get information out in an emergency all ready to go.
Pbs bye bye now. Me smarter now though. Me teacher reached me about god and told me that as long as I pray to my god I will be happy and that got tells us it’s okay because we are his chosen once and no one else matters and. We need to show them god too so we will make big holy weapons in factories when we grow up. Also I am so glad stients were deleted. Stients reached us false messages and that god was not real and stients caused people to live a part from god. I always sayed that oh wow it sounds good to be a part from god like god made the trees and the dogs but they told me it’s bad.
Every single jackal that voted for this should be primaried into oblivion
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