I really hate this administration.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
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NPR is the only news media that consistently tells me the core news, why it's important, and never "how I should feel about it".
What about AP?
Hypothetically if you wanted your country to become impoverished within the next five decades, what sort of things would you do that are different to what the current administration is doing?
They don't want the country to be impoverished, and it's ridiculous to suggest that.
They just want the bottom 99.9% of the population to be impoverished. They're already most of the way there.
looks at mississippi and alabama
it appears to work too
I mean, technically there would be more direct measures, like using artillery to blow up infrastructure or destroying crop with flamethrowers.
The only differences I can think of is not chickening out on the tariffs and forcing the interest rate lower to kick off runaway inflation.
I'm.canceling my dizney and Netflix and routing that to NPR.
Thats a great idea! We should evangelize that. That woukd be a great movement. Cancel one od your streaming services to suppport seasame street
Make sure to list that as reason. If enough people drop Disney to fund NPR, Disney might buy a politician to do something about it.
Only around 15% of the PBS budget comes from the federal treasury via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), thanks to decades of privatization. NPR's budget is as little as 1% from the CBP.
Consequently, both networks have suffered from a creeping enshittification, with a rising tide of advertisement and ad-supported content taking over both networks and the forced sale of some of its most valuable assets (PBS licensing Sesame Street to Warner Brothers, for instance) to finance continued operations.
Like, by all means. Cancel your Netflix. Cancel Disney. Support public broadcasting. But this isn't a solution in the long term, any more than cancelling Basic Cable for Netflix was a way to fix the fully privatized entertainment system. We're still surrendering our social capital to private interests, bit by bit (or in this case by massive chunk).
This is a stab wound. We can patch it, but we shouldn't mistake this as to anyone's material benefit.
The White House called for an end to federal funding for NPR and PBS in April, claiming that they "spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'" Trump also fired the CPB's three Democratic board members, who refused to leave their posts. Trump sued them this week in an attempt to force them out.
Translation: they don't regurgitate right wing talking points.
These people are disgusting.
They also educate and inform people. That's a problem for the GOP. They don't want the American people, ESPECIALLY low income people, to have access to free education and information that PBS and NPR provides. They need to ensure the population is stupid thus easier to control.
So America they've taken your medicade, they've taken the ability of a good portion of your country to be able to eat, they're taking immigrants, tourists, or people that they don't agree with to camps, they're taking your education, they're taxing you with tariffs, they have a gestapo, and they'll be taking away more rights from Women and POC. I have to ask...how much longer until you start to get a little bit violent?
They also educate and inform people.
Eh. They are increasingly polluted by their private sponsors and corporate partners. I've given up on listening to NPR in the mornings because so much of it is very obviously native advertisement or propaganda (particularly bad in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7th, with broadcasters uncritically repeating IDF hoaxes like the "40 decapitated babies" line).
So America they’ve taken your medicade, they’ve taken the ability of a good portion of your country to be able to eat, they’re taking immigrants, tourists, or people that they don’t agree with to camps, they’re taking your education, they’re taxing you with tariffs, they have a gestapo, and they’ll be taking away more rights from Women and POC. I have to ask…how much longer until you start to get a little bit violent?
I got a "Blue Alert" on my phone not two days ago, thanks to a vigilante attacking an ICE agent. Dozens of armed cops were all over the Mayor's Office yesterday because of a rumor of a Palestinian protest that never materialized. FFS, three different people tried to shoot the President in a two month span.
I don't think the problem is a lack of violence. What Americans largely lack is coordination and institutional support. A thousand little lone wolves don't a revolution make.
They are increasingly polluted by their private sponsors and corporate partners.
Gee, I wonder why they have those. Could it be because of the extreme cuts to their budget by conservatives?
Your apathy is part of the problem.
Go on, centrists. Why was there no filibuster this time?
Rescission packages aren't subject to the filibuster, only a simple majority is needed. Expect more of this.
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Democrat answer: Filibusters are 'not a good look'. We want to be seen as the party of reasonable adults who honestly want to work across party lines to help our constituents. We won't vote to end the practice as it has a long history and tradition blah blah blah
Honest answer: We don't give a single fuck about our constituents, the only people we are beholden to are the lobbyists who line our pocketbooks. It's easier to control the narrative when all of the media corporations are owned by billionaires.
Nah. You're not thinking like a politician. The real answer is, "this will be a PR disaster for them. LOL this is really goin to help my fundraising"
What if I'm unwilling to vote for a party willing to cooperate with nazis?
Then people who like the collaborationists will blame you when they lose and take it as a sign that they should collaborate even harder.
Of course, they take everything as a sign that they should collaborate even harder.
Fuck this administration, I hope they burn in the hell they believe in. I hope they all get cancer.
I try my best to find redeeming qualities in everyone, but there is none to be found in them.
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Education is nearly dead. Just the way these shitbags want it.
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