Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA. The fact that ABC/Disney flinched from such a small jab really shows how stupid this entire thing is.
I fear one big problem with them flinching so quickly is that it gives the Trump cult plausible deniability to not blame the dictatorship for doing the things that they are doing.
I mean, the government did not censor Kimmel, it was a business decision made by a private entity. Right? RIGHT??
Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA.
That will do nothing. They enjoy their own hypocrisy. They don’t care about consistency of principles and are quite happy to just want everything their way while no one else gets anything. They’re quite happy to abuse language by saying whatever suits them in the moment. It drives their opponents crazy as they try to point out how inconsistent and irrational they’re being. The fascists don’t care, but they do love to see you get frustrated. It’s just part of their sadistic fun: messing with people, playing with their prey until they are ready to exterminate them.
To complain that fascists are hypocritical or inconsistent is to miss the point of fascism, at least if your hope is to shock them into being more reasonable. I know this quote from Sartre is everywhere but he said it so well:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Pointing out the hypocrisy is not supposed to suddenly convince the actual fascists that they’re wrong, it’s to convince the people they’ve duped into following them that they’re both wrong and evil.
I really want someone to chime in with the legal ramifications of ABC being a publicly broadcast station that licenses radio spectrum from the federal government.
Corrupt or not, the feds revoking a license is a lot more plausible than them somehow pulling a private cable station or streaming service out of people’s homes.
Hopefully more hosts follow and point out the major hypocrisy from MAGA. The fact that ABC/Disney flinched from such a small jab really shows how stupid this entire thing is.
It wasn’t even a jab at the guy who was shot. It was a jab at dear leader.
They didn’t flinch, they gleefully collaborated.
Yes they should all have their heads shaven after we’ve ended the occupation.
What is that from?
Inglourious Basterds, a classic movie.
I fear one big problem with them flinching so quickly is that it gives the Trump cult plausible deniability to not blame the dictatorship for doing the things that they are doing.
I mean, the government did not censor Kimmel, it was a business decision made by a private entity. Right? RIGHT??
That will do nothing. They enjoy their own hypocrisy. They don’t care about consistency of principles and are quite happy to just want everything their way while no one else gets anything. They’re quite happy to abuse language by saying whatever suits them in the moment. It drives their opponents crazy as they try to point out how inconsistent and irrational they’re being. The fascists don’t care, but they do love to see you get frustrated. It’s just part of their sadistic fun: messing with people, playing with their prey until they are ready to exterminate them.
To complain that fascists are hypocritical or inconsistent is to miss the point of fascism, at least if your hope is to shock them into being more reasonable. I know this quote from Sartre is everywhere but he said it so well:
Pointing out the hypocrisy is not supposed to suddenly convince the actual fascists that they’re wrong, it’s to convince the people they’ve duped into following them that they’re both wrong and evil.
Nobody’s duped. They don’t believe it. They pretend to because doing so hurts you.
I wish I had your faith that there is a large group of followers that don’t realize they are doing evil.
you know what the worst part about the creeping nature of murderous, paranoid fascism is? the hypocrisy!
I really want someone to chime in with the legal ramifications of ABC being a publicly broadcast station that licenses radio spectrum from the federal government.
Corrupt or not, the feds revoking a license is a lot more plausible than them somehow pulling a private cable station or streaming service out of people’s homes.