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And many, many more are going to follow, as Americans learn that they’re no longer free to criticize those in power.
And the day will actually come when the notion of someone just being fired for criticizing those in power will seem quaint, since it will then be far more likely that they’ll disappear - sucked up into the ever-hungry maw of the corporate police state slave system.
Currently playing through Cyberpunk just to have some kind of preparation of what is eventually to come.
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Cyberpunk future will look good compared to where we’re probably headed if history is any indication.
Yeah, we’ll get all of the surveillance, climate disaster and police state without any of the cool implants…
If we can’t criticize them openly then we’ll have to use the other avenues made available via the Constitution. That will just eliminate the warning that negative public sentiment would normally give.
This is the way.
Are you referring to solutions that lie somewhere between the first and third amendment?
All whole numbers in the solution set would suffice…
I have been thinking I need to buy a gun, now that you mention it.
I’m not a gun owner. Never had even an ounce of desire to be one.
It’s time.
This is how you become a firefighter without going through vigorous training.
Or an assembly line worker.
Or, quite possibly, it just struck me - a fruit picker or meat packer or motel maid or any of the other jobs that have traditionally been filled by undocumented immigrants.
Wow…
Yeah, I hadn’t thought of that before, but that could well be why Trump is seemingly unconcerned about the economic impact of deporting the millions of people who have traditionally held the shitty, underpaid jobs nobody else will take - because the plan is to replace them with the new generation of private prison slaves…
The economic impact of the economy collapsing is that normal people will lose everything and the 0.1% will be able to buy it all up on the cheap.
Just like the subprime mortgage/Wall Street bailouts scam.
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Summary
Meteorologist Sam Kuffel, who criticized Elon Musk’s “Nazi” salute on social media, has left CBS affiliate WDJT-TV. Her departure has sparked criticism from users who argue it infringes on her freedom of expression.
They should know that you can only infringe the “conservative” freedom of expression by moderating hate speech/ideas/beliefs, or by calling a Nazi a Nazi. Anyone Left of Nazi in the US has a narrowing window of “freedom of expression”.
Because as we all know, the founders were granting Freedom of Speech to Fascist, NOT ANTIFA, just like Jesus wanted. /s
This is honestly really scary. Why should someone’s livelihood be ruined for calling something what it is?
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The Nazi police state is here.
Cool = CBS blocked, I don’t support Nazi’s
CBS affiliate, which means its a local station. Milwaukee, specifically.
I don’t split hairs, CBS is CBS.
I mean, you’re not wrong.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464/
It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS
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What’s even sadder is this was all the way back in 2016. They showed us who they are and whose side they’re on a long time ago.
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It almost makes me want to see them lose the lawsuit Trump filed just out of karma. Almost.
Probably owned by Sinclair
Wisconsin is a piece of shit so that doesn’t surprise me
Speaking of Nazis, we don’t pluralize with apostrophe.
It takes a lot of courage to speak out against fascists in power. Not enough Germans did it and look what happened.
If you’re a good person, you probably don’t want to work for a corporation that enables fascists. Hope this person finds a better employer.
Send those same words here. You put that quite well, and they need to hear it from as many of us as possible.
So why is CBS affiliate WDJT-TV in Milwaukee Wisconsin defending the speech of an apartheid-loving fascist who did a full-on nazi salute on national TV? And if that’s not what they’re doing, then why did they fire that reporter?
That’s the question that every real news outlet should be asking.
Because nobody wants their meteorologist weighing in on political issues
When the richest human in existence, who will have an official position in the White House for bankrolling the president, performs not one, but TWO Nazi salutes while standing behind the presidential seal during a presidential inauguration, I want EVERYONE, including my meteorologist to speak up on that political issue.
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You should retract your ego and get yourself a better education.
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😭Oh noes I broke a rule that allows you to claim safe space when you’re trying to rile people up oh noes
Its Not political to call out this fucking obvious Nazis. Everyone should hate Nazis and this is in no way controversial.
It was on her private Instagram story, she wasn’t even broadcasting it to the general public. You really want everyone to start thought policing? You gonna start snitching out your neighbours for being Jewish too?
I do. Many of the people here do. So what the fuck are you taking about?
She probably believes in climate change too, so political!
This just in: Members of the news no longer allowed to report on the news. Stay tuned as this story devel…
… wait, where are you taking me?
Free to do a nazi salute but not free to criticize it.
The culmination of the Paradox of Tolerance.
The position people tend to see as “criticized” is that which they directly or indirectly get from the Press, and the Press is bought and paid for and has been working as a Propaganda arm of a subset of the population rather than as Journalists, for decades.
IMHO, the Consent for “Billionaire openly making a Nazi salute during Presidential Inauguration of Far-Right populist multi-millionaire” has been Manufactured and the acceptance of this by many and feeling of impotence about it by many others was never the product of natural Tolerance.
PS: In fact, the very events on the article the OP posted - that somebody in a public-facing position in the Press was fired for being a dissenting voice - give weight to the point I’m making.
Next we see indian good luck charms everywhere?
They are less tolerant of their employee cursing than a billionaire spreading nazi salutes.
Sent. They won’t care, but I let them know how I feel about their Nazi support and my 100% blocking of everything CBS. I urge others to follow suite.
Same. Here’s what I wrote in case it helps anyone:
I’d like to express my deep disappointment regarding your firing of Sam Kuffel for posting on social media to call out Elon Musk’s egregious display during the presidential inauguration.
There was zero ambiguity about what Musk did – so little ambiguity, in fact, that media in Germany cannot show images or videos of the moment because his gesture is illegal there.
Your willingness to bow to this appalling display of hate is contemptible and, though I no longer visit Milwaukee regularly, when I do, I will be avoiding your programming. I will also tell my friends and relatives who still live there.
This is also a stain on CBS as a whole, and I will be avoiding all CBS programming in future.
Please consider how bad this makes you and your parent company look. It’s despicable for a media company to hold such little regard for free speech.
This is far more eloquent than how I said it, but it’s pretty much the same message.
I just wrote ‘thanks for looking out for my boy elon’ and signed it Hitler.
I’m sure your message was just as good; we each have our own voice. Thanks for sending one. We all need to do everything we can. Sometimes that’s protesting, sometimes that’s sending letters. Every action matters.
I did my part 🫡
It asks for a city and ZIP code. I guess bad actors could put in any values as they want using an online map.
Every person at that new organization that does not resign in protest is one step into First they came …
The laaaaand of the free 🦅
And freeze peach!
And the home of the ignorant.
Dear News Media. Your job is speaking truth to power, which means you’re going to make a lot of enemies. So unlike other big companies, the point of your legal department is to get you OUT of trouble, not to keep you from ever getting into it. Having principles in the business world isn’t cheap or easy. Nothing worthwhile ever is.
Your news media is just a propaganda organisation owned by the ruling class
Boy it’s great we don’t have a social credit system like they do in communist China!
