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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These people are a cancer, and the world will be better when they are dead and forgotten.
100%.
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Education is nearly dead. Just the way these shitbags want it.
Who needs public broadcasting anyway, when you have Faux News and Sky.
Haven't they already used up their spending budget reconciliation bill for the year passing the BBB? Hopefully this will be filibustered to death then.
Edit: Nevermind, apparently rescission bills also bypass the filibuster.
If they just voted to kill it, there was no filibuster.
It’s not even September and they’ve dismantled like 80% of the shit that makes being alive worthwhile
dismantled
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1250902337/npr-cpb-public-radio-funding-101
Today, NPR receives only about 1% of its operating budget directly from the federal government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/business/media/npr-pbs-funding-cuts.html
Will NPR and PBS survive?
Yes. NPR gets about 2 percent of its annual budget directly from federal grants, including from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; for PBS, that amount is about 15 percent.
It'll be a hit for PBS in particular, but it's not gonna end NPR or PBS.
It's going to be devastating for rural communities.
NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC's On the Media or WBEZ's Wait Wait gets axed.
and it's going to hurt rural areas the most. some of them could lose up to 50% their revenue overnight, which will almost certainly lead to them shutting down. and then what happens next time there's some disaster that knocks out the internet and there aren't any local radio stations left to inform the people when and where to take shelter?
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makes being ~~alive~~ American worthwhile
FTFY.
We deliberately don't get news about it, but China is making entire cities for the well-educated looking to return to China from the US. They are "taking the solar system" right now according to some experts, and are on their third space station among multiple lunar missions. ESA and other countries have also taken grand steps into space. International science and medical research forges ahead without us. There are countries effectively expanding their social safety nets and other than US involvement in Israel/the Middle East broadly, the world is at an all-time peak of peace and personal safety.
You are being fed a cultivated image. This entire "free speech" catchphrase that we've been taught to scream at any offence is an illusion, a lie reinforced by every branch of media, which are in turn branches of the corporations that have long since nailed the coffin closed on actual democracy.
Remember Dead Internet Theory? Dead America Theory. We died around Reagan, the country has been running on momentum and money. We won't feel it until the money runs out and that's why this current administration is a pile of bottom-feeding bilge rats scraping off whatever they can from taxpayers. They know the value of the American dollar is about to start plummeting, and climate change and other technological changes to the global stage will be the final flush of this toilet we've been trying to pretend we're not spinning around.
Our progress and species will go on, just not without America leading the way. Even if we got a "perfect" president and administration tomorrow they wouldn't be able to undo this reverse-snowball that's currently evaporating out of control.
China is making entire cities for the well-educated looking to return to China from the US
Can you tell me where some of these are? Or give me any info to look them up?
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When fascism works it makes everything boring and bland as fuck.
They've had a hardon for public broadcasting for thirty years, which is why NPR and PBS have been preparing for this and why their funding largely doesn't come from the feds anymore. It's a hollow victory, it's just depressing because anymore, it seems the right gets everything they want. They get it all. All of it. And we get nothing.
What's sick is that they are a fraction of this country. But thanks to their money and their platforms, they can constantly repeat the lie that "most people are conservatives".
No, the kind of weird perverted freaks that dream of killing funding to NPR and PBS are definitely not normal and not the majority. But yeah, thanks to a lot of various things, they get what they want....it's sickening.
Dear Congress:
You're not being the people Mr. Rogers thought you could be.
And fhere are so many great educational YouTube channels that are partly funded by PBS, that's awful..
Ex:
Space Time is fucking amazing.
If anyone reading this is even remotely interested in science, watch that channel. Absorb it. It speaks truth.
PBS Eons
Crash Course is also filmed at the PBS affiliate station in Indianapolis.
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*you're
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It's just all vengeance and spite for decades of having to "tolerate" even a modicum of liberalism in their lives.
You spelled 'not having slaves' kinda funny there.
I disagree with the defunding, as many of the programs supported by NPR and PBS are pretty interesting / educational -- but to claim its just a 'modicum' of liberalism in regular media channels is a bit odd, especially if you look outside 'just' the 'news' (news sources are slanted towards right wing, definitely).
But if you look at things like netflix/most streaming services, or hollywood movies, or 'leisure' type shows in general, there's far more than a 'modicum' of liberalism.
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Knowledge is power and they want the public to have none of it
What's really insane is they don't even want the knowledge. They just want knowledge in any capacity to go away.
No, they want the knowledge but only for themselves, after all during the guilded age, the educated where the rich and the rest where ignorant so they couldn't push back and be controlled. PBS and NPR spread knowledge for the masses and THAT is what they want to stop
I don't think you've seen who's doing all the destruction. These people do not care about gaining knowledge.
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Keep them just smart enough to work the machines, but too stupid to coordinate uprising.
~ George Carlin, paraphrased
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What did people expect. Trump and his largest donor both own social media sites and these are competitors eyeball time for ads
strange, I assumed they get their budget raised after Elmo came out as a nazi
I donate to NPR/PBS annually; probably will need to double my donation.
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She shouldn't have said this, it sealed the deal "Millions of Americans will have less trustworthy information about their communities, states, country, and world with which to make decisions about the quality of their lives."
She should have said: "Millions of Americans will lose access to information about how great Trump is and how to report who to deport next."
Jokes aside, the emergency broadcast system makes so much sense as a function of public broadcasting. I have been to several countries that explicitly subsidize radio and tv channels for this purpose. You can have public programming 99% of the time, and a way to get information out in an emergency all ready to go.
In Spain, while we had the black out, the only thing working to give info was the radio.