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We really are fucked. Welcome to being part of history everyone
May the vengeful ghost of Fred Rogers come strangle Trump and Miller in their sleep.
Nah not in their sleep while on TV I want to see them choked out and dead. It would be a beautiful day in the neighborhood. _
"Hello, neighbor. Normally, I tie my shoes. Today is a special episode. Today, I'm going to tie my laces to two sticks and make the knots very tight. That's right, today we're making a garrote. To help me demonstrate how to properly use this tool, we've enlisted a very special guest, Donald Trump. To commemorate this very special occasion, I've asked my good friend, Bob Ross, to paint a happy little picture. Are you ready, Robert?"
vengeful ghost of Fred Rogers
Be the vengeful ghost you want to see in the world
BRB, dying with unfinished business
And while he's strangling them, the ghost of Bob Ross comes up behind and stabs them with a paintbrush.
The happiest of accidents!
Better still, release his attack squirrels unto the eyes of the entire Trump family and the MAGA Republican party.
Blame Roy Cohn for hatching the idea of putting those motherfuckers into power in the first place.
I didn't want to be part of history. I just wanted to live a simple NPC life...
Wouldn't that be nice. Maybe own a little hobby farm.
Farming fucking sucks, don't fall for the trap.
You'll notice the word hobby there. I don't want to farm for the purpose of trading my labour and produce for money
A hobby farm actually makes it worse. The work is more difficult since you're likely not buying the extremely expensive equipment that for profit farms use. Or you're buying it used and have to sink time and/or money into repairing and maintaining it.
I lived and worked on a hobby farm throughout high school (<2 acres), and I can guarantee you that the romanticized vision of life on a farm isn't very accurate.
Same with having farm animals. Baby animals are cute until their mom decides to not let them nurse and you have to bottle feed them every 2-4 hours.
My mom "farms" her backyard and she's perfectly happy doing it all by hand and then making a salad out of whatever grows there
That's a garden, then.
There's no actual difference, only the area you need to work
welcome to class war
True
We were always part of history.
This is a stupid attitude.
You don't get to choose your time, you get to choose what you do with it.
Start punching the fascists in the dick
Fuck you dude relax. Do you think I mean this in a completely literal sense? Everyone else seems to get what I mean....
Feel the vibe man.
Read the room
I'm just exhausted at defeatism.
In archaeology, you can peg the beginning of an empire's end when it stops building public architecture, whether it's art or infrastructure (equal to spending on the public). Once the government stops giving back to the populace, it's over.
Separate and complex discussion defining "empire" in archaeology without written records, so I am just referring to a particular geographic center exerting cultural and economic influence on its neighbors.
Stop public spending. People move out. Economy declines. Some other political center rises to prominence.
Obviously there are a ton of other factors affecting this, but it's a broad-brush pattern seen repeated over thousands of years.
Trump, a moron and huckster, continues to employ the old mob tactic of attempting to profit from everything, oblivious to even the simplest things.
He believes he’ll be remembered fondly like Reagan by his cult, but history has proven otherwise. He’ll be remembered as the biggest fool for attempting to accomplish something seemingly insurmountable by listening to today’s trust fund kids.
The only thing he’ll be remembered for is being one of the primary causes of the American Revolution. There’s a reason kings and queens these days position themselves in a Mickey Mouse like position, less heat. Rocking the boat tends to end with your ass in the waters.
But also remember
This can all be reversed just as quickly so don’t forget to vote
Only if we find opposition that actually wants to do that. Best we can do so far is people that want to pretend it's the 90s and that they need compromise and approval from Republicans.
I'd be curious to read more about this effect (something I don't think I've heard of before). Can you point me resources / examples of this?
I did not mean to imply the cessation of public spending was causal, just indicative. First ran across it studying mesoamerican civilizations, but I think there are academic papers about Eurasian examples as well. Usually the cause is periodic shifts in rainfall patterns, or other environmental factors. This is an ok place to start, but I would have some work to dig up the textbook. https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/HTML-Articles/Origins/Unit5/Cycles-of-Collapse-in-Mesoamerica
Edit: here's a good paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00420980221105418
Yes, fuck the kids in particular, sort of a theme with Trump
The article's comments section is disheartening, but predictable. It's the same "Don't use my tax dollars for your liberal agenda" bullshit. No critical thinking. Just parroting propaganda.
Dude, like.. I'm going to fuckin cry ..
What a beta imperial slave colony.... A turd sandwich of a country. We ain't up to nothing... really just watching the top 10% pass around money until this imperial fart dissipates. We will start over again in the nucular waste of just a few mens ambition to once again rediscover and build simple things such as the wheel. Capitalism is exponential like the gas that builds in my colon only to be released as a foul odor of yeasterday when "things were great." One generation builds, another pigs out then the next scrambles just to find something to eat as the planet winces in pain, sick and tired of all "gods children". It is the survival of the fittest as justice is always served...YOLO netflix and chill drinking from a poisonous well.... Brutes Morons and the tech bros. Welcome to the worlds casino aka dum dum yankeeland. Remember the democrats will not save you! The USA is not a democracy and if you want to see change it will have to be uproot the system via kentic means. Nothing new under the sun.
I go to civil rights rallies And I put down the old D.A.R. I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy I hope every colored boy becomes a star But don't talk about revolution That's going a little bit too far So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal - Phil Ochs
This is such a sad day.
Now the only media is state media (aka propaganda). Good luck everybody!
So it sounds like CPB was the lobbying arm of NPR/PBS. -I'm not sure it's wise to shutter the lobbying agency that get's them federal funds but on the other hand they were clearly not having the desired effect on congress.
:(
RIP
We all knew this was coming unfortunately.
Look on the bright side. Chilling events like this are not boring. I am definitely not bored right now.
I feel energized. I could reset and release multiple watermelon chopping type devices over and over with this stored energy.
So does this mean NPR and PBS are going to shutter? Or significantly reduce their operations? Or have they still got enough private benefactors to carry on?
Side note: I wonder if they still have any of that Ray Croc money left in some random fund?
The CPB exists to allocate government funding to nonprofit public stations (the individual broadcasters in each city) and networks (NPR and PBS). Without government funding, the CPB has no reason to exist.
The public stations and NPR and PBS still exist. They are the ones that actually produce and distribute content. And they've always relied some on donations.
PBS and its stations have been roughly 15% funded through the CPB. The rest relies on donations and other income.
NPR doesn't receive much money directly from the CPB (less than 1% of its budget), but its member stations do, around 13% on average.
So it's not the end of the world for these stations, but it does represent a reduction in funding that is pretty serious.
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