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PBS is part-funded by government, but also relies on transmission fees paid by the affiliates for network programming, as well as corporate and viewer donations. This will further reduce the money in the PBS system as it will no longer get fees or donations from Arkansas.

Isn't that why Grokipedia exists? Musk more or less said exactly that.

It's really easy! If you imagine that a black person and a white person could never be friends or spend positive time together, and then you saw a show that had them together, you might conclude the show is trying to convince you something is okay that you know is not. Propaganda.

If you imagine that a gay person is inherently wrong, and that bad things deserve to happen to them as punishment for their choices, and then you watch a show where a gay person is happy and normal and respected, you might conclude the show is trying to push an idea on you that you already know isn't right. Propaganda.

It's sad, and dangerous, but it's not complicated.

Its a mistake to believe that this is an irrational or ignorant decision. These guys KNOW what the message of PBS is and there is a reason they don't want it to get to kids. They are making child soldiers and they don't want people giving them inconvenient values.

You guys are telling jokes while the other side is building an army. Maybe start taking this shit seriously.

i think this poster thinks "public television" means "available for viewing by the public" rather than "available for use by the public"

we have become a nation of consumers. not of makers, maintainers, or even owners. just consumers. the public broadcast system is in many places the only network where you can see a documentary made by your neighbor. but people who think like this, like pbs and voa are the same, would never think to make a documentary, or to learn more about their local community. these people really buy into the "there is no two americas, there is just america" propaganda. the reality is that there are 13 american nations based on cultural identity, and within those, another 3 based on access to services thanks to class based identity, meaning the 2 americas line of thinking introduced by jimmy carter could get most people closer to understanding the empire we live in, but there's really 39+ americas.

cutting funding to pbs means that there will be no exploration anymore of Arkansas' identity. they will now be subsumed into a national identity that does not care about Arkansas. no one will be able to speak truths about what it means to be from the farthest reaches of greater Appalachia to people living in new york city.

these people think they've told the coastal elites to shove it, but they've silenced only themselves, and have chosen to only consume content made by and for those very coastal elite. they have willfully chosen to enter into their own modern dark age. and they celebrate it, gleefully, because they haven't the education to understand what it is they've done

I'm guessing it's gonna be something out of the Prager propaganda machine.

PBS is a remnant of an older America that attempted to improve things. It's mostly funded by donations just like national public radio. Both are highly politicized because they have a history of apolitical pursuit of truth and that made them boogeymen of the right. The right has also done some capture of them because of that (much like the bbc).

Also universal healthcare is something we're actively and intensively propagandized against. Despite that it's still more popular than our politicians would have you believe.

we also fund public libraries and schools. Im not sure why healthcare is what gets people. (i am it's the constant propaganda and people want to defund libraries and schools)