• Pratai@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    At this point. Does it really matter? If the answer is yes, nothing changes. If the answer is no, nothing changes.

    This is how shit is going to be now. No difference is made regardless of the answer to the question. Best to just take note of yet another thing that will happen despite your objection and hope there’s an America worth protecting in 2028.

    Maybe then, enough people will have learned their lesson and decide to actually vote against fascism.

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    5 hours ago

    Not to what CBS/Paramount did, but they’ve got The Daily Show too, and Jon Stewart’s complaining about the bribe on his episode last week doesn’t seem to have triggered any punishment there. He even had a former 60 Minutes correspondent on to discuss the bribe.

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    His show is popular. So no. Because it would be financially prudent to keep the show.

    They’re bending the knee to a felon rapist, like so many other pathetic companies. If you’re paying CBS/Paramount…stop.

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    Technically yes. It will influence the administrations approval of a merger. And in a way, that is so much worse than being afraid. They are willing to sell out the country for their own profit.

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      What’s stopping the Trump admin from continuing to obstruct the merger? I wouldn’t put it past him to try to screw over Paramount even more, now that they showed him that he can push them around.

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        That’s the thing, there isn’t anything stopping Trump from blocking it anyway. Look what happened to Columbia. They bent the knee, and he still fucked them. Fascist’s gonna fascist.

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    11 hours ago

    Nope, CBS is scared shitless that Trump will take over CBS somehow. So they will continue sucking donnie’s dick to avoid that.

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      They don’t care about Trump taking over CBS, they care about the Skydance/Paramount merger in progress. Paramount owns CBS. And Trump would push to stop that merger unless CBS, Paramount, and Skydance bend the knee.

      The sad fact is, after the merger goes through they will continue to be extorted by Trump. It won’t stop with this one move.

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      Trump is a shit stain. But I don’t get why people don’t see that he’s not the only shit stain. These companies aren’t afraid of him. They are supporting the shift to fascism that they chose. So even the most milk toast liberal criticism won’t have a place in that world. This isn’t done out of fear.

      Please remember this. Because fascism won’t die with Trump. The capitalist class has chosen it. And they will support it as long as it serves their interests.

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      10 hours ago

      So many people, businesses, and countries have given Trump BJs to stay in his favour and all it does it show him he can come back and bully them again for more.

      But I’m sure it’ll work out this time.