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Honestly it doesn’t matter if ABC returns Kimmel and his show to air. The exercise (fascist politicians exerting their influence through the oligarchy to punish critical speech) has served its purpose (to be a chilling effect on anyone with the mind to speak truth to power).
It’s a stern tug on the leash.
This is why independent media is so important, and we need a lot more of it.
This is why the show coming back isn’t enough; the execs who made the decision to comply with fascists need to themselves be ousted, at the bare minimum.
Honestly it doesn’t matter if ABC returns Kimmel and his show to air. The exercise (fascist politicians exerting their influence through the oligarchy to punish critical speech) has served its purpose (to be a chilling effect on anyone with the mind to speak truth to power).
I think its the opposite from your take. The fascists got knocked down and now look weak. Other organizations that try to capitulate now see there’s backlash that happens and should be more emboldened to reject the fascist demands.
My speech is already chilled. Well, except around here where I’m an unapologetic antifascist.
I dare not fly a flag, plant a sign, wear a T-shirt or cut a bumper sticker if it’s anti-MAGA. I would be vandalized at best, threatened with violence at worst. And the threat may well end in me shooting someone. Almost did a couple of months ago.
So, yeah, that’s where we’re at in my pocket of the USA. If I exercise my 1st, may have to exercise my 2nd.
And the threat may well end in me shooting someone.
There have to be a few shooting deaths in order to preserve the 2nd amendment. It’s what that guy would have wanted.
I’m surprised no ICE agents have been killed. If masked men come to my house, or in public, for my immigrant wife, I’m shooting. FFS, you can buy POLICE patches on Amazon. And people simply trust that masked men in random baseball hats are legitimate?!
Not macho talk. I’ve thought on this long and hard and I’ll die before I see my wife dragged off, crying and screaming. And again, I have to chill my speech or it may come to that.
I don’t necessarily think that would be the wrong thing to do in that situation, but wouldn’t it most likely end up with your death and your wife dragged off somewhere with no one left who knows she’s even gone?
I’m all for shooting masked thugs and I don’t have a good answer here, I just think there are no good outcomes
Yes, I would certainly be killed. OTOH, I cannot simply lay down. Hell of a choice ain’t it? America 2025.
I’ll tug your leash.
Bonk
I’ll tug your leash.
Leash tugger.
He could do the funniest thing and just start with a speech doubling down on everything he said plus take the whole situation and compare it to fascist/dictatorial leadership
I guarantee he won’t.
one can dream
He usually pillories Trump, so it would be remarkable if he didn’t go after him. Since there are no reports that he apologized to Kirk’s family or had to donate money to TPUSA, I’m guessing he’s coming back on his own terms here.
He should absolutely turn up the anti-Trump rhetoric even more considering he has little to lose. He’s already rich.
If he did, he could be the next Zelenskyy.
I appreciate Kimmel but I’m partial to Stewart taking that Zelenskyy title in terms of his actual capacity to lead and depth of knowledge. He pretty much singlehandedly bullied Republicans of Congress to pass legislation for first responders and veterans.
Anyone remember the Rally to Restore Sanity with Colbert / Stewart?
I got one of those hats they were selling for the rally that said hate with the “E” xed out. It was my hat hat and I’m still upset I lost it.
I always liked watching Jon Stewart but he earned my respect when he went to bat for the 9/11 first responders who suffered illnesses related to their service. Browbeating and shaming Congress to their faces repeatedly, until they finally passed legislation to care for those people. He didn’t do it because they were all on the same political “side” as him. He did it because they needed it and they earned it.
The man has more integrity than most of the people in D.C. and fucking balls of steel.
I wish, but I have a feeling that he be pretty neutered
They just want their Disney subs back.
Not happening for me. I will remain unsubscribed.
Fucking twats.
This is Business 101. Customers are hard to come by and once you piss them off, you’ve lost them, likely forever. Don’t know what other countries are like, but I suspect their customers are mostly like Americans, unforgiving.
Less than a week after it was taken off the air under pressure from the Trump administration, Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to late night on Tuesday, ABC parent company Disney confirmed.Trump is going to have a heart attack.
Dont do that. Don’t give me hope
Don’t worry; even if he does, his deal with the devil will ensure he survives. I’m convinced it’s the only reason the hamberders haven’t done their job.
Ignorance is bliss…
An intelligent person can see when shit is going to be bad, a moron will just keep insisting everything is fine, especially if their whole lives someone has bailed them out of everything.
A moral person feel shame, and is stressed about the harm he causes others. Somone without empathy literally never thinks how anyone else feels.
It’s not that trump is healthy or made a deal with the devil.
It’s just for stupid self centered people, they don’t care about anything except themselves.
After making such a big deal about Kimmel going away. And he immediately comes back…
If Kimmel goes hard on trump, especially insulting his masculinity for hiding behind the FCC and attacking free speech cuz he can’t take a fucking joke…
He might legit have a heart attack, and that will be effective at chipping away his support.
Careful, even suggesting how poor that orange turds health is could be seen as a threat according to the SS.
The SS sure is a fitting acronym for them.
It’s really USSS, but SS is fitting, ain’t it?
That sentiment deserves the whole video clip
Too late, not coming back. I’ll pull him up on Jellyfin if I feel like it.
- Download and install Jellyfin server
- Download content
- Put content in Jellyfin folder
- Watch Jellyfin on device with web or app
bonus points: check out the *arr stack and don’t worry about manually downloading content ever again
There’s no way this can be categorized as world news.
I agree it’s iffy, but from comments elsewhere on Lemmy the boycott had gone international.
There’s an entertaining (somewhat NSFW though mostly quoting Trump) European take on a MAGA revision to Disney classics.
Now with Trump admin approved scripts!
Neat.
I’ll consider Disney to be on probation.
I’ll decide on my spending habits after I see what they do for the next two fiscal quarters.
It’s Disney. They’ve never been a paragon of virtue. They’ve wielded the law as a club against their competition many times. They’ve had copyright law amended specifically so that Mickey Mouse doesn’t fall into the public domain.
Just because the share price is taking a hit. It is about money and nothing else.
This is just the beginning
Curious to see if anything changed, if certain things are off topic. If the affiliates will still preempt him…
Cool, I get to back to not watching late night shows and catching clips every few months on youtube. Glad he got his job back though and hasn’t said anything apologetic.
Oh joy.
The rich comedian got his show back.
That’s going to make a world of difference in my life personally. Awesome.
It was probably 200 normal people that also got to keep their jobs.
Glad for that, certainly.
I’d be more glad if people like Jimmy Kimmel were willing to pay some fucking taxes.
