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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 115 points 2 months ago (7 children)

"Carr appeared yesterday on the radio show hosted by Scott Jennings, who describes himself as "the last man standing athwart the liberal mob.""

One of the biggest things that pisses me off about the current, and really long-standing conservative narrative, is how they try to market themselves as the underdogs. Oh poor me, I'm the one strong soldier against the evil hordes of liberals!! Like, bro. You're the chair of the FCC. You're shutting down shows with no resistance. You're all getting everything you want, You've been getting everything you want all year long. That's not an underdog type situation. It's so deranged to be the literal people in power and yet still talk endlessly like this. Last man standing?! What about the literal majority of the country that voted for Trump?

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

They're also heavily hypocrites. they say the left are just little children (that they probably want to fuck, tbh), that can't handle getting their fee fees hurt, when it is in actual fact them that can't handle getting their feelings hurt.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One of the biggest things that pisses me off about the current, and really long-standing conservative narrative, is how they try to market themselves as the underdogs.

They get a HUGE assist from the very same "liberal media" the far right attacks all the time. For decades. That's because the "liberal media" never really was a thing. They are the same picture, just on different points on the spectrum that's almost all on the right.

Sure, a few outlets allowed, or did allow, a few things that acted as release valves. Like a few identity politics things, or satire that pokes fun of conservatives. But that's mostly on the margins.

When it comes to narratives - the one that has been hilarious to me, but they've been pitching it since at least the 90s is that they are the true counter-culture (the 60s still really pisses off conservatives, even ones that were born long after the 60s).

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If they hated the 60's counterculture they don't wanna see what counterculture we're gonna make

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Well, I sure hope so. Right now it seems younger generations might be even more captured, but I guess we'll see.

I had a lot of hopes for my generation (Gen X) since many of us saw the hippie-to-yuppie thing and thought many boomers were selling out and cashing in as they entered the workforce, but that our generation had punk and zines, and a real DIY ethos and we'd carry the torch forward with a lot of that hippie sensibility, but with a different shape - different clothes and music and designer drugs, even if LSD/cannabis were still prevalent - and armed with the 'net, which was just being opened up to the public (for commerce and that was the fly in the ointment) and maybe more McKenna than Leary, more Coupland instead of Kerouac, etc...

And, well...you can see the results for yourself. I don't see that spark in Gen Y or Z or alpha, either, if I'm honest. I sure hope I'm wrong, though.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, but someone was mean to him once. Therefore he is the victim of all victims.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

you know i am aware of this great place you can go and no one ever gets their feelings hurt. maybe they would like to visit

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

This is the only way their base understands things. They have been told for decades the immigrants and "blacks" were stealing their jobs or MIGHT take some of their jobs.

BAM instantly racist and hate immigrants because they were told to do. It's always been this stupid game with conservatives.

They need to always be losing to "Democrats and liberals" to keep up the charade. It's sad and they are all crybabies.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

We need to stop giving them the privilege of setting the narritive

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

This is something I think Tucker Carlson gets. These right wing pundits thrive on the victim narrative, and when the FCC chair exercises his authority to shut down media explicitly in the name of if being leftist, it ruins their schtick.

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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 74 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More censorship from out of control fascists

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The idea is to have everyone self censor themselves.

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow, so appeasement didn't work? Hold on, I have to go call Chamberlain.

[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

I see what you are referencing, but Chamberlain was by no means just an appeasement puppet. Great Britain wasn't ready for a war at the time so that was a way of pushing the inevitable war further back so they were better prepared. British intelligence was pretty aware of the situation

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

This is 100% petty revenge for Rosie O’Donnell being on the show and making fun of the diaper-in-chief, like, 20 years ago.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do it. Finish shooting your stock & your approval rating in the head.

[–] mystik@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

++ I DONT LIKE THE VIEW BUT THEY CAN PRY THAT SHOW FROM MY COLD DEAD BUTTHOLES ++ I AM ALSO RUNNING A LITTLE LOW ON OUTRAGE STEAM ++ THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER ++ I WILL REFUEL TOMORROW WHEN A NEW SUPPLY HAS BEEN SENT ++ APOLOGIES FOR THE LACK OF PUNCTUATION PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING AS OR AS NOT NEEDED , , , , , ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ++ P DOT S DOT DAISY HAD PUPPIES ++

times like these i need good music. this feels right tonight, especially if we sub in "DEI" for "integration". it was my favorite grandpa's favorite song on his favorite jazz album.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your service, Rex Banner

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR ++ REDO FROM START ++

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't The View have right wingers on it? Or is he just pissed that there is a black woman with a voice on TV?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably has some fat, old, black and/or generally un-bangable (in Taco's eyes) woman/women on there, who also have opinions. In other words, "nasty woman/women". See also Taco's long-standing obsession with Rosie O'Donnell.

That should be enough to qualify as something that needs to be taken off the air by this maladministration.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

wasn't Whoopie on there for a while? didn't krasnov have a beef with her too?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah she is still, I think. And yeah, if Orange Jesus has an issue with her, it tracks - opinionated Black woman and someone he thinks is unfuckable.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

unfuckable? psh. anyone who thinks that has awful taste in hats.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

We are talking about Taco, so.... 🤷

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Someone needs to show him Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's been a very long time since I've paid much attention to the show (which is not the snarky sideswipe it might sound like) but I thought it was a very, very liberal-centric (note I did not say left) show with (IIRC) one token conservative host.

I could very well be wrong though.

[–] etherphon@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago

I think the current admin would like the show to be called My Husband's View.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was always half and half, but I could be wrong.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

It's very possible you are correct, and I'm sorry for being too lazy to look it up right now. 🙂

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

I wanna see a wine mom revolution if The View gets taken off air. I know three women who LOVE that show and make it a legit part of their routine.

[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

Oh look at that. Kowtowing to fascists didn't work. Who would have seen that coming?

Bullies do not stop-- especially once they see they can push you around. Dumb fucks.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm Canadian but most tv and films I watch are American. I'm very upset that Trump is gradually ruining American television. In a year, I might be out of things to watch from the states.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thrumps shit touch ruins everything.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've had it with ICE proganda ads on CBS. Of course, I've always said CBS is the channel where you see BS

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

the fire should be entertaining

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a lot like when Disney fired James Gunn after an astro-turfed right-wing campaign (spearhead by Mike Cernovich) convinced them that there was genuine outrage over some tweets he'd made a decade prior. Disney fired Gunn, there was a huge public backlash in response, and the entire Gaurdians cast threatened to walk. When they finally tried to rehire him, he was working for their largest competitor, which caused them to delay Gaurdians 3 by several years, and now Gunn is pulling DC studios out of it's nosedive as Marvel is tanking.

Anyway, this time is a little different, because they're clearly bowing to authoritarian government pressure as well, but they clearly misread the publics mood on this once again. It's super weird that this billion dollar company keeps doing lasting damage to itself because it thinks Twitter is real life.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From the reporting even executives at Disney are pissed. It sounds like a few people, possibly one, made this shitty decision.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Let's just cancel this group of women saying things we don't like because reasons.

And the war on women rages on unbeknownst to the masses.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

LOL, another favorite show of Orange Jesus.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Do it. Shut them all down. Americans absolutely love being told what they can and can't say.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Woolie bully. woolie bully.

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